An annotated checklist of Coccinellidae with four new records from Pakistan (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae)

Muhammad Ali; Khalil Ahmed; Shaukat Ali; Ghulam Raza; Ishtiaq Hussain; Maisoor Ahmed Nafees; Syed Ishtiaq Anjum

doi:10.3897/zookeys.803.22543

An annotated checklist of Coccinellidae with four new records from Pakistan (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae)

Zookeys. 2018 Dec 6:(803):93-120. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.803.22543. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Muhammad Ali^{1

2}, Khalil Ahmed², Shaukat Ali³, Ghulam Raza¹, Ishtiaq Hussain⁴, Maisoor Ahmed Nafees², Syed Ishtiaq Anjum⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Baltistan, Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
² Department of Biological Sciences, Karakoram International University, Gilgit, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
³ Department of Environmental Science, Karakoram International University, Gilgit, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
⁴ Department of Agriculture, District Kharmang, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
⁵ Department of Zoology, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Abstract

Some new ladybird (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) records collected during the last four years across Sindh are reported. A first preliminary checklist of ladybirds from Sindh is presented, consisting of one subfamily, ten tribes, 21 genera, and 29 species including four new records, namely Bulaealichatschovii (Hummel), Exochomuspubescens Küster, Scymnus (Pullus) latemaculatus Motschulsky, Scymnus (Pullus) syriacus Marseul, and four varieties of the species Cheilomenessexmaculatus (Fabricius).

Keywords: Chilocorinae; Coccidulinae; Coccinellinae; Scymninae; aphid; mealybug; predatory.