A New Chilean Species of Cycloneda Crotch (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Coccinellinae: Coccinellini)

Authors

Natalia J. Vandenberg, ystematic Entomology Lab (SEL), Plant Sciences Institute, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, c/o National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, MRC-168, Washington, DC 20013-7012Follow
Guillermo González, Santiago, Chile, Nocedal 6455 La ReinaFollow

Date of this Version

2008

Comments

Published in Zootaxa 1772: 63–68 (2008).

Abstract

Cycloneda pretiosa, new species is described from Lago Pirihueico in southern Chile The species is diagnosed and compared with both related and superficially similar species. Habitus and genitalic characters are illustrated. Geographical and temporal data are given. The new species is assigned to the Cycloneda germainii species complex and integrated into the key to species of this group (González and Vandenberg, 2006).