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A NOTE ON THE IDENTITY OF SOME SPECIES OF THE GENUS BALLIA (COLEOPTERA: COCCINELLIDAE)
Author(s) -
Ghani M. A.
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal entomological society of london. series b, taxonomy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1365-3113
pISSN - 0375-0434
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1962.tb01193.x
Subject(s) - commonwealth , genus , identity (music) , citation , library science , genealogy , coccinellidae , geography , zoology , computer science , philosophy , biology , history , ecology , archaeology , aesthetics , predator , predation
CONSIDERABLE variation is known to occur in the elytral patterns in members of some genera of Coccinellidae, for example in CocCinellct spp. and Hippodamia spp. (Smith, 1958). Adults of the genus Ballia collected in 1959 from silver fir (Abies pindrmu Royle) and blue pine (Pinus excelsa Wall.) in the Murree cantonment forests also showed great variation in their elytral patterns and coloration. Specimens were identi6ed by the Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, London, and some were also determined by the Entomology Research Institute (Canada Department of Agriculture), Ottawa, as follows :