Jauravia soror

Jauravia soror
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Suborder:
Polyphaga
Superfamily:
Coccinelloidea
Family:
Coccinellidae
Genus:
Jauravia
Species:
J. soror
Binomial name
Jauravia soror
(Weise, 1892)
Synonyms
  • Clanis soror Weise, 1892

Jauravia soror, is a species of lady beetle native to India, and Sri Lanka.[1][2][3]

Description

Body length is about 2.5 to 2.8 mm. Body sub-hemispherical. Dorsum reddish brown to reddish testaceous. External elytral borders are shiny and much lighter. Ventrum is brown. Epipleura of prothorax, elytra, and legs are yellowish-brown. Head very finely and fairly densely punctate. Pubescence on head is whitish, long and sparse. Pronotum deeply emarginate anteriorly. Elytral punctation is fine and close and clothed with whitish, long and sparse pubescence. Elytral punctures are fine, shallow and less dense. Elytral interspaces are coriaceous, shiny and clothed with white, long, sub-erect and sparse pubescence. Ventrum finely and sparsely punetate, and clothed with yellowish white, short, delicate, sub-depressed and sparse pubescence.[4]

It is a predator of Hemaspidoproctus cinereus, Tetranychus bioculatus, Raoiella indica, Trialeurodes ricini and Dialeurodes citri.[5][6]

References

  1. ^ Das, Soma; Roy, Somnath; Mukhopadhyay, Ananda (2010). "Diversity of arthropod natural enemies in the tea plantations of North Bengal with emphasis on their association with tea pests". Current Science. 99 (10): 1457–1463. JSTOR 24069158. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  2. ^ Muraleedharan, N.; Selvasundaram, R.; Radhakrishnan, B. (October 1988). "Natural Enemies of Certain Tea Pests Occurring in Southern India". International Journal of Tropical Insect Science. 9 (5): 647–654. doi:10.1017/S1742758400005166. S2CID 86414490. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  3. ^ "Taxonomy of Indian Coccinellidae with Observations on the Role of some Species in Agroecosystem" (PDF). DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY ALIGARH (INDIA) 1997. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  4. ^ "VIII.--A Revision of the Genus Jauravia" (PDF). THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY [ELEVENTH SERIES.] No. 98. FEBI~UAR¥ 1946. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  5. ^ "Taxonomy of predatory coccinellid beetles (Coccinellidae:coleoptera) in rice and vegetables". krishikosh. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  6. ^ "Jauravia soror". www.cabi.org. Retrieved 2021-09-15.


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