Synonyms
Serangium glorious Slipinski and Burckhardt, 2006: 41.
Diagnosis
The species is similar to S. maculigerum Blackburn from which it differs in its smaller size, the larger eyes and a single row of setae along the elytral margin.
Description
Length 1.3-1.5 mm. Pitch black dorsally and ventrally; elytra with a yellowish or ochreous dot in the middle; trochanters and femora brown, tibiae and tarsi dirty yellowish. Winged; body shape hemispherical; pronotal margins visible from above, pronotum entirely finely rimmed along margins; elytra with conspicuous swelling near humeral edge; elytral margins with narrow rim, visible from above in anterior half. Head, pronotal and elytral surface shiny; head virtually impunctate, covered in long sparse setae. Pronotum covered in sparse fine punctures and long sparse setae. Scutellum elongate, triangular, flat, shiny, glabrous. Elytra impunctate with a few long setae in basal third and a row of evenly spaced setae along margin. Head with moderately large eyes, separated by 2.1 times eye width; flattened medially. Clypeus flat, long, straight anteriorly. Terminal maxillary palpomere and labial palpomere not observed. Antenna 9-segmented, scape expanded apically, club elongate, inner margin concave, apex angular. Prosternum mat, surface weakly furrowed, sparsely setose; mesosternum mat, transversely furrowed; metasternum shiny, impunctate, sparsely setose. Elytral epipleuron brown, broad, flat and perpendicular to elytron in anterior half, with some long setae, narrowing to a mere rim in apical half. Anterior margin of profemur strongly angled in the middle. Tarsus 4-segmented. Abdomen: ventrite 1 large, shiny and glabrous, ventrites 2-5 small, mat, transversely furrowed and bearing a few long setae. Last ventrite not grooved laterally.
Male
Male genitalia as figured.
Female
Externally identical to male.
Variation
Not observed.
Distribution and Biology
Queensland.
Species References
Slipinski, A. and Burckhardt, D. 2006. Revision of the Australian Coccinellidae (Coccinellidae). Part 5. Tribe Serangiini. Annales Zoologici (Warszawa), 56(1): 37-58.
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