Aulonogyrus obliquus

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Aulonogyrus obliquus
Scientific classification
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Gyrinidae
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A. obliquus
Binomial name
Aulonogyrus obliquus
(Walker, 1858))
Synonyms
  • Gyrinus obliquus Walker, 1858

Aulonogyrus obliquus is a species of lady beetle native to India, and Sri Lanka.[1]

Description[]

It is recorded from Eastern Ghats and North Western Himalaya and Silent Valley in Kerala.

The species is elongate-ovate with a black color dorum and ventrum. Head with fine wrinkles and clypeus transverse. Antennae black, stout and short. Pronotum transverse. Elytra apically truncate with margined lateral sides. Scutellum is transverse.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ "Cenozoic out-of-Africa dispersal shaped diversification of the whirligig beetle genus Aulonogyrus (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae: Gyrinini)". Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 76(2). Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  2. ^ "Gyrinidae of Silent Valley" (PDF). Rec. zool. Surv. India. 84 (1-4) : 59-66. 1966. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
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