Novius bellus Blackburn 1889
Creators: name: Pang, Hong
name: Tang, Xue-Fei
name: Booth, Roger G.
name: Vandenberg, Natalia
name: Forrester, Juanita
name: Mchugh, Joseph
name: Ślipiński, Adam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Coccinellidae
Novius
Novius bellus

description: <i>Novius bellus</i> Blackburn (Figs 6–11, 39–45, 69–71, 100–107) <i>Novius bellus</i> Blackburn, 1889b: 189. TL: South Australia, Sedan. <i>Rodolia bella</i>: &amp;Sacute;lipi&amp;nacute;ski, 2007: 143. <i>Eurodolia Severini</i> Weise, 1895: 150. TL: Tasmania. <b>Syn. nov.</b> <i>Rodolia severini</i>: &amp;Sacute;lipi&amp;nacute;ski, 2007: 143. <i>Novius immaculatus</i> Lea, 1902: 492. TL: Western Australia, Swan River. <b>Syn. nov.</b> <i>Rodolia immaculata</i>: &amp;Sacute;lipi&amp;nacute;ski, 2007: 143. <b> <i>Diagnosis</i>.</b> <i>Novius bellus</i> is very similar to <i>N. lindi</i> and melanic color variants of both species are externally identical. However, these species can be distinguished by the details of the male genitalia with <i>N. lindi</i> having parallel, not apically expanded, parameres which are distinctly shorter than the penis guide, and the penis with a simple and sharp apex (Figs 26, 122–126). The eyes are also more broadly separated in <i>N. lindi</i> than in <i>N. bellus</i> (Figs 69–71, 81, 82). <b> <i>Description</i>.</b> Length 3.5–4.0 mm. Body oval, widest just posterior to elytral humeri, 1.1–1.3 times longer than wide. Color pattern variable. Head and pronotum uniformly dark or with anterior part of pronotum reddish. Elytra of typical form red with black, medially expanded sutural stripe and forked stripe extending from each humerus with dorsal branch ending freely before reaching apex and the lower branch reaching lateral margin and extending to apical margin of elytron. Melanic forms with variable amounts of black color on elytra, up to completely black (Figs 39–45). Interocular distance in frontal view 2.0–2.2 times eye width. Male genitalia (Figs 6–10; Figs 100–107): parameres slender, weakly expanded and rounded apically; penis guide about as long as parameres, apically point- ed. Penis blunt or weakly pointed apically. Female genitalia as in Figs 92, 93. <b> <i>Type material</i>.</b> <i>Novius bellus</i> Blackburn: Lectotype (here designated) male, BMNH. “Type / Australia; Blackburn Coll.; B. M. 1910- 236. / <i>Novius bellus</i> Blackb. / T 2606 Vic”; <i>Eurodolia severini</i> Weise: Holotype: “ Tasmania ” IRSNB Brussels; <i>Novius immaculatus</i> Lea: Holotype male: “ <i>immaculatus</i> Lea TYPE, Swan R. /10408 <i>Novius immaculatus</i> Lea, W. Australia, TYPE / S. A. Museum. ” <b> <i>Other specimens examined</i>. New South Wales:</b> Sydney, C. Darwin, 87-42 (5, BMNH); Sydney, G.E. Bryant, 7.ix.1908 (1, BMNH); Casula, xi.1958, N.N. Nikitin (2, BMNH); Cabramatta, Georges R. Valley, 28.iii.1962, M.I. Nikitin (2, BMNH); Covan, 4.2.61, M.I. Nikitin, Brit. Mus, 1962-101 (1, BMNH). Sydney, H.W. Cox, H.J. Carter Coll. P.20.4.22 (7, VM); NSW. 34km N of Woodburn, 20.iv.1980, G.F. Hevel &amp; J.A. Fortin, 2031513 (1, USNMNH); G. Brant Coll. 1919-147, N, Sydney, G.E. Bryant, xi.1908 (1, ANIC). <b>Queensland:</b> Brisbane, 27.28S, 153.01E, xi.1992, V. Brancatini (8, BMNH); Bluff Rg., S. slopes, nr. Biggenden, 26.vi.1975, Frauca, by sweeping (1, ANIC); Watalgan Rg., via Rosedale, 17.iv.1975, H. Frauca (1, ANIC); <i>E. moluccana</i> Woodland, Mulgowie, S.E. Old, M.D. Peart. A 834, 31.viii. 1983 (1, ANIC); Brisbane, 27.31.3S, 152.56.2E, 28.iii. 1994, V. Brancatini, (LPL9516, KE20) feeding on <i>Monophlebulus comperei</i> on <i>Eucalyptus</i> sp. (17, ANIC). Brisbane, 27.30.66S, 152.59.73E, xii.1994 - i.1995, W. Fahey, (LP 153-160), Predator of <i>Icerya aegyptiaca</i> &amp; <i>Icerya seychellarum</i> on <i>Ficus benjamina</i> (32, ANIC). Brisbane, 27.28S, 153.01E, 25.ii.1992, V. Brancatini, (LPL9516), Host : 1st instar- <i>Icerya purchasi</i> on <i>Hakea</i> sp., Reared on <i>Icerya aegyptiaca</i> (4, ANIC); Kenmore, 27.37.3S, 152.56.0E, ix.1994, V. Brancatini, Predator of <i>Icerya seychellarum</i> on <i>Michelia figo</i> (9, ANIC); <i>E. moluccana</i> Woodland Mulgowie, M.D. Peart (1, ANIC); Kenmore, 27.37.3S, 152.56.0E, 20.vii.1994, Ofahey, feeding on <i>Icerya seychellarum</i> on <i>Michelia figo</i> (1, ANIC); Long Pocket, 27.30.65S, 152.59.731E, 28.xii.1994, O. Fahey, feeding on <i>Icerya aegyptiaca</i> on <i>Ficus</i> sp. (2, ANIC); Long Pocket, 27.30.65S, 152.59.731E, 28. xii.1994, O. Fahey, feeding on <i>Icerya aegyptiaca / I. seychellarum</i> on <i>Ficus</i> sp./ avocado (1, ANIC); Long Pocket, 27.30.65S, 152.59. 731E, 5.i.1995, O. Fahey, feeding on <i>Icerya aegyptiaca</i> / <i>I. seychellarum</i> on <i>Ficus</i> sp./ avocado (3, ANIC); Mt Coot-tha, 27.28.9S, 152.58.4E, 13.iv.1994, D.P.A. Sands, V. Brancatini, feeding on <i>Monophlebulus comperei</i> on Eucalypt (3, ANIC). <b>Western Australia:</b> Coral Bay (nr. Cardabia), 1-2.viii.1978, H. &amp; A. Howden (10, BMNH); Swan R, S.A. Museum (1, SAM). <b> <i>Distribution</i>.</b> New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia (Fig. 11).
description: Published as part of <i>Pang, Hong, Tang, Xue-Fei, Booth, Roger G., Vandenberg, Natalia, Forrester, Juanita, Mchugh, Joseph &amp; Ślipiński, Adam, 2020, Revision Of The Australian Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Genus Novius Mulsant Of Tribe Noviini, pp. 1-24 in Annales Zoologici 70 (1)</i> on pages 5-6, DOI: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.1.001, http://zenodo.org/record/3776582
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