Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Zenoria ratzeburgi Mulsant
Zenoria ratzeburgi Mulsant, 1850, p. 898.—Crotch, 1874, p. 277.—Korschefsky, 1931, p. 108.—Blackwelder, 1945, p. 443.
No specimen fitting Mulsant’s description has been examined. The following description is taken from Mulsant’s original diagnosis.
Length 3.33 mm, width 2.80 mm. Form round, slightly elongate. Pubescence sparse, yellowish white. Pronotum yellowish white with a black band occupying the median one-fourth of basal margin. Elytron grayish white with three longitudinal black vittae, the first and second beginning very near the base, the third beginning at humerus; first vitta nearly one-fourth as wide as elytron, extending three-sevenths the length of elytron, a narrow dark line present between vitta and suture and first and second vittae; second vitta extending four-fifths the length of an elytron, more transverse and abruptly enlarged almost as far as the suture at the median point, gradually curving outward from that point to its extremity; third vitta consisting of two spots barely connected, extending nearly as far posteriorly as the second. Underside and legs grayish white.
TYPE LOCALITY.—“Bresil.”
TYPE LOCALITY.—Paris Museum (lost?)
- bibliographic citation
- Gordon, Robert Donald. 1971. "A revision of the genus Zenoria Mulsant (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae]." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.86