Coccinella transversalis Fabricius 1781

Coccinella transversalis Fabricius, 1781 Coccinella transversalis Fabricius, 1781: 97; Mulsant (1850): 126; Timberlake (1943): 14; Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1979): 68; Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1982): 391; Pope (1989): 652; Poorani (2002): 326; Rafi et al. (2005): 46; Ali et al. (2012): 170. Abdolahi et al. (2018): 14; Ślipiński et al. (2020): 33; Poorani (2023): 88. Coccinella repanda: Thunberg (1781): 18; Mulsant (1850): 1022; Crotch (1871): 3; Crotch (1874): 11; Korschefsky (1932): 423; Pope (1987): 62; Ślipiński et al. (2020): 33. Coccinella contempta: Boisduval (1835): 59; Mulsant (1850): 1022; Pope (1989): 653; Ślipiński et al. (2020): 33. Materials Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 2; sex: 1 male, 1 female; occurrenceID: 99975340-D8BD-5D6D-A341-B8428C0B9062; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella transversalis; order: Coleoptera; family: Coccinellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius, 1781; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; locality: Abbottabad, Kaghan Colony; verbatimElevation: 1255 m; decimalLatitude: 34.19139; decimalLongitude: 73.22500; Event: year: 2015; month: 10; day: 21; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 3; sex: 1 male, 2 females; occurrenceID: 9EEC3F37-D606-5781-8A87-1A63E2AE386E; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella transversalis; order: Coleoptera; family: Coccinellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius, 1781; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; locality: Mansehra, Nisar Park; verbatimElevation: 1120 m; decimalLatitude: 34.34361; decimalLongitude: 73.21833; Event: year: 2015; month: 10; day: 22; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: 5BA68340-F7A0-5C8A-843B-F12DB735AED5; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella transversalis; order: Coleoptera; family: Coccinellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius, 1781; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Punjab; locality: Chakwal, Dhudiyal; verbatimElevation: 507 m; decimalLatitude: 33.11000; decimalLongitude: 73.01249; Event: year: 2015; month: 12; day: 10; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 3; sex: 1 male, 2 females; occurrenceID: 56C0B261-D824-5D4E-8318-AE846DF0B238; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella transversalis; order: Coleoptera; family: Coccinellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius, 1781; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; locality: Abbottabad, Kaghan Colony; verbatimElevation: 1255 m; decimalLatitude: 34.19139; decimalLongitude: 73.22500; Event: year: 2018; month: 11; day: 1; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: 1 male; occurrenceID: 60B60BFB-EB8E-528E-8976-CB692DCC028D; Taxon: scientificName: Coccinella transversalis; order: Coleoptera; family: Coccinellidae; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius, 1781; Location: country: Pakistan; stateProvince: Punjab; locality: Chakwal, Dhudiyal; verbatimElevation: 507 m; decimalLatitude: 33.11000; decimalLongitude: 73.01222; Event: year: 2021; month: 8; day: 10; Record Level: institutionID: PMAS-AAUR Description Body (Fig. 4 A) broadly oval and fairly convex, dorsum apparently glabrous; head black with triangular yellowish-white spots on each side of frons; mouthparts and antennae dark brown; pronotum black with white-yellow sub-quadrangular marking on anterior corners, connected at anterior margin; scutellar shield black; elytra orange-red, suture with narrow black band and sub-oval scutellar spot, three transverse markings on base, median and apical of each elytron, basal ones elbow-shape marks, but not touching base, median ones large and wave-like in shape, apical one transverse connected with sutural margin and sometimes entirely covering the apex of elytra as in Fig. 4 A; underside and legs black; abdominal-postcoxal line (Fig. 4 B) incomplete, not recurved and reaching to posterior margin ventrite 1, oblique dividing line present. Male genitalia as on Fig. 4 C-F. Measurements TL: 5.30–547 mm; TW: 4.29–4.37 mm; HW: 1.35–1.39 mm; TH: 2.36–2.38 mm; EL / TW: 1.06–1.08; TL / TW: 1.24–1.26; PL / PW: 0.52–0.55. Diagnosis Coccinella transversalis can easily be distinguished from C. marussii and C. luteopicta by having three transverse large markings on the elytra and apex of the penis with a slightly dilated and small thread-like appendage at the tip as in Fig. 4 D. Distribution Pakistan. Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Khan et al. 1999, Rafi et al. 2005, Inayatullah et al. 2005, Khan et al. 2007, Hayat et al. 2017), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Ullah et al. 2012, Saeed et al. 2016, current study), Islamabad, Punjab (Rafi et al. 2005, current study), Sindh (Ali et al. 2012); – India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Japan, China, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, (Poorani 2002, Kovář 2007, Abdolahi et al. 2018). Ecology Prey. Rafi et al. (2005) reported that this species feeds on Aphis gossypii Glover, A. fabae Scopoli, A. craccivora Koch, Myzus persicae (Sulzer), Lipaphis pseudobrassicae Davis, Macrosiphum rosae (Linnaeus), Pterochloroides persicae Cholodkovsky, Therioaphis trifolii (Monell) (Hemiptera, Aphididae). During this study, Coccinella transversalis was found to feed on Aphis fabae Scopoli, Aulacorthum solani (Kaltenbach) and Sitobion graminis Takahashi (Hemiptera, Aphididae). Associated plants. Coccinella transversalis was collected from Heteropogon contortus (Linnaeus) (Poales, Poaceae), Tagetes minuta Linnaeus (Asterales, Asteraceae) and Cyperus rotundus Linnaeus (Poales, Cyperaceae) (current study). Notes Kovář (2007) considered C. transversalis as a subspecies of C. leonina Fabricius 1775, a species solely endemic to New Zealand. This was followed by Abdolahi et al. (2018). However, Ślipiński et al. (2020) treated C. leonina and C. transversalis as distinct species in their revision of Australo-Pacific Coccinellini.