Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus. A 1758

Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus, 1758 Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus, 1758: 365: Korschefsky (1932): 486; Gordon and Vandenberg (1991): 847; Yu and Wang (1999): 94; Yu et al. (2000): 193; Irshad (2001): 1259; Poorani (2002): 21; Rafi et al. (2005): 45;: 188; Yu (2011): 45; Ali et al. (2012): 168; Ashfaque et al. (2013): 243. Coccinella divaricata Olivier, 1808: 1001; Korschefsky (1932): 457; Mader (1930): 375; Gordon (1987): 13. Coccinella confusa Wiedemann, 1823: 72; Mulsant (1850): 112 (as a var. of divaricata). Coccinella brucki Mulsant, 1866: 90; Crotch (1874): 46. Materials Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 10; sex: 3 males, 7 females; occurrenceID: 61EA3796-071E-5D44-AA56-F70D67AC9873; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata; order: Coleoptera; family: Coccinellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Punjab; locality: Attock, Hazro; verbatimElevation: 317 m; decimalLatitude: 33.89500; decimalLongitude: 72.48361; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2014; month: 10; day: 1; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 3; sex: 1 male, 2 females; occurrenceID: F4F34E53-0E0E-5520-A98E-1A7F27F42E49; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata; order: Coleoptera; family: Coccinellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Punjab; locality: Rawalpindi, Neela Sandh; verbatimElevation: 692 m; decimalLatitude: 33.66056; decimalLongitude: 73.38417; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2015; month: 4; day: 9; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 2; sex: 1 male, 1 female; occurrenceID: 19F2E70A-D2C5-5A9F-A9FB-1172F7006397; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata; order: Coleoptera; family: Coccinellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Punjab; locality: Jhelum, Dina; verbatimElevation: 277 m; decimalLatitude: 33.03000; decimalLongitude: 73.59277; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2015; month: 4; day: 21; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 6; sex: 3 males, 3 females; occurrenceID: BF968727-2103-5057-88C2-CEA282CB0E84; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata; order: Coleoptera; family: Coccinellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Punjab; locality: Chakwal, Dhudiyal; verbatimElevation: 507 m; decimalLatitude: 33.11000; decimalLongitude: 73.01222; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2015; month: 5; day: 14; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 21; sex: 8 males, 13 females; occurrenceID: 80382456-22AF-513D-B27E-2228494A9776; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata; order: Coleoptera; family: Coccinellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Punjab; locality: Murree, Kuldana; verbatimElevation: 1929 m; decimalLatitude: 33.92278; decimalLongitude: 73.40389; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2016; month: 11; day: 11; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 5; sex: 1 male, 4 females; occurrenceID: 878644C8-0A79-517E-8FF7-6AEBC5DE2E68; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata; order: Coleoptera; family: Coccinellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Islamabad; locality: Ankara Park; verbatimElevation: 504 m; decimalLatitude: 33.69139; decimalLongitude: 73.11194; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2017; month: 11; day: 28; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 9; sex: 4 males, 5 females; occurrenceID: 288B917F-E5A6-5D45-87DD-C2953285E817; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata; order: Coleoptera; family: Coccinellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Gilgit, Jutial Nala; verbatimElevation: 1815 m; decimalLatitude: 35.88889; decimalLongitude: 74.34361; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2018; month: 8; day: 29; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 8; sex: 4 males, 4 females; occurrenceID: 1EE70DDA-4329-53F4-A721-7A88F4E44301; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata; order: Coleoptera; family: Coccinellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Azad Jammu and Kashmir; locality: Muzaffarabad; verbatimElevation: 682 m; decimalLatitude: 34.36056; decimalLongitude: 73.47639; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2018; month: 6; day: 21; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 21; sex: 8 males, 13 females; occurrenceID: 454BB03E-2C9A-5C40-9717-9083B1707FA4; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata; order: Coleoptera; family: Coccinellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; locality: Abbottabad, Khanaspur; verbatimElevation: 2362 m; decimalLatitude: 34.02056; decimalLongitude: 73.42583; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2017; month: 5; day: 4; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 4; sex: 1 male, 5 females; occurrenceID: A47AEE9C-6D78-5D00-BE43-CAC1E51FEF87; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata; order: Coleoptera; family: Coccinellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Azad Jammu and Kashmir; locality: Neelum, Sharda; verbatimElevation: 1967 m; decimalLatitude: 34.79389; decimalLongitude: 74.18167; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2019; month: 8; day: 20; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 7; sex: 3 males, 4 females; occurrenceID: BB4D077F-FE96-5521-969F-7C794E3D955D; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata; order: Coleoptera; family: Coccinellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Hunza, Aliabad; verbatimElevation: 2222 m; decimalLatitude: 36.30611; decimalLongitude: 74.61833; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2020; month: 7; day: 5; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: 0CA59878-8B92-553C-B1D9-13C0BFCD26A4; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata; order: Coleoptera; family: Coccinellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Skardu, Kachura; verbatimElevation: 2342 m; decimalLatitude: 35.43472; decimalLongitude: 75.45000; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2021; month: 4; day: 5; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 6; sex: 3 males, 3 female; occurrenceID: 1B73ED17-38E8-509B-830D-AD6E0FDD7E63; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella septempunctata; order: Coleoptera; family: Coccinellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Linnaeus 1758; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Gilgit-Baltistan; locality: Astore, Rama; verbatimElevation: 3093 m; decimalLatitude: 35.35889; decimalLongitude: 74.81111; Event: samplingProtocol: mist net; year: 2022; month: 8; day: 22; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR Description Body (Fig. 5 A-D) oval, strongly convex and dorsum surface apparently glabrous; head black with pale yellow oblique spots near ocular margins, antennae and mouth-parts black; scutellum black; pronotum black with pale-yellow quadrated marking at anterior half of lateral margins; elytra reddish-brown or orange, with seven black spots, each spot nearly rounded and rather large, sometimes marging with each other and forming one or two large black spots, in different patterns; abdominal postcoxal line (Fig. 5 E) incomplete laterally and not recurved, expending to posterior margin ventrite 1, with an oblique dividing line close to postcoxal line. Male genitalia as in Fig. 5 F-H. Measurements TL: 6.63–7.20 mm; TW: 5.35–5.60 mm; HW: 0.86–0.94 mm; TH: 3.26–3.28 mm; EL / TW: 1.07–1.09; TL / TW: 1.24–1.33; PL / PW: 0.42–0.44; PW / EW: 0.63–0.65. Diagnosis Coccinella septempunctata can be easily separated from C. transversoguttata and C. undecimpunctata by having seven black spots at the elytra (Fig. 5 A-B), sometimes these spots merging and forming one or two large black marks at each elytron (Fig. 5 C-D); apex of penis flattened and with the triangular process, surrounded by a weak membrane (Fig. 5 F). Distribution It is a widely distributed species in Pakistan (Rafi et al. 2005). Azad Jammu & Kashmir (Hayat et al. 2017, current study); Baluchistan (Mohibullah et al. 2019), Gilgit-Baltistan (Ashfaque et al. 2013, current study), Punjab (Khan and Sultan 1949, Gillani 1976, Ashfaque et al. 2013, Ahmed et al. 2017, current Study), Islamabad (current study), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Mohyudddin 1981, Shah 1983, Ullah et al. 2012, Saeed et al. 2016, Khan et al. 2007, current study), Sindh (Ali et al. 2012, Ashfaque et al. 2013); – China, Nepal, Bhutan, India, Iran, Sri Lanka, Andorra, Austria, Azores, Balearic, Albania, Liechtenstein, Belarus, Cyprus, Netherlands, Belgium, Romania, Estonia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Finland, Germany, Afro-tropical Region, Bulgaria, Corsica, Croatia, England, Sweden, France, Greek, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Denmark, Macedonia, Madeira, Czech Republic, Malta, Norway, Slovenia, Ireland, Poland, Luxembourg, Ukraine, Portuguese, Russia, Sardinia, Latvia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and East Palearctic, all being introduced to the Nearctic Region (Poorani 2002, Kovář 2007, Jafari et al. 2015). 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