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Zenoria revestita Mulsant

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Zenoria revestita Mulsant

Zenoria revestita Mulsant, 1850, p. 900.—Crotch, 1874, pp. 277–278.—Korschefsky, 1931, p. 108.—Blackwelder, 1945, p. 443.

LECTOTYPE MALE.—Length 3.30 mm, width 3.00 mm. Form round, slightly elongate. Color black (Figure 9); anterior margin and angles of pronotum, head, antenna, mouthparts, underside of pronotum, last three abdominal sterna and legs pale yellow. Pronotum covered with grayish white, semidecumbent pubescence, average length of hairs 0.11 mm; punctures fine, separated by 2 to 4 times their diameter; width to length ratio 1.96:0.98 mm. Elytro covered with grayish white, semidecumbent pubescence, average length of hairs 0.13 mm, discal fourth with dark-brown pubescence; coarse punctures deep, separated by less than their diameter, interspersed fine punctures separated by 2 to 4 times their diameter, coarse punctures becoming widely separated, shallow on discal fourth; margin of elytron abruptly reflexed, feebly sinuate in lateral view; epipleuron with inner carina reaching less than half the distance to outer margin. Genitalia with basal lobe equal in length to paramere, narrowed at middle, tapering to a blunt point; paramere flattened on underside medially, broad (Figures 46, 47); sipho bent downward slightly at tip, apex fine, acuminate (Figure 77).

FEMALE.—Similar to male except head, anterior angles and underside of pronotum, front and middle legs (except tarsi), and hind femur black.

VARIATION.—Length 3.00 to 3.30 mm, width 2.60 to 3.00 mm. Some male specimens have the metafemur black as in the female. Females may have the metatibia black, as least basally.

TYPE LOCALITY.—Brazil.

TYPE DEPOSITORY.—University Museum, Cambridge, England (lectotype here designated).
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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