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TL: 3.75–4.60mm, TW: 3.00–3.50mm, TH: 1.65–2.00mm, TL/TW: 1.25–1.31; PL/PW: 0.50–0.51; EL/EW: 0.97–1.03. Body oblong oval, moderately convex and pubescent (Figs 24–26). Head yellow with clypeus dark brown and eyes black (Fig. 26). Pronotum black except antero-lateral corners and anterior margin yellowish brown (Fig. 26). Scutellum black. Elytra black with two round red (sometimes yellowish brown) spots (Fig. 24). Underside black, except legs and abdomen reddish brown. Head small, 0.42 times elytral width (HW/EW=1:2.40). Punctures on frons close, separated by 0.3–0.5 times their diameter, with thin, yellow white pubescence. Eyes large and broadly oval, rather finely faceted, widest interocular distance 0.60 times head width, posterior of the eye with silver setae. Pronotum 0.73 times elytral width (PW/EW=1:1.36). Pronotal punctures similar to those on head, separated by 0.5–1.5 times their diameter, with thick silver white pubescence. Punctures on elytra slightly larger than those on pronotum, separated by 0.5–1.0 times their diameter. Prosternum coarsely punctate, with pubescence sparse, long and yellowish. Mesoventrite indistinctly punctate, with several hairs. Punctures on metaventrite fine, separated by 0.2–0.5 times their diameter, with long setae. Male genitalia: Penis stout and short, curved at basal 1/3, gradually narrowing to the apex (Fig. 56). Apical 2/5 length of penis with membranous appendage. Penis capsule with a large outer process and a small inner one (Figs 56–57). Penis guide stout, spoon-shaped in lateral view (Fig. 59). In ventral view, penis guide very broad, nearly parallel-sided, slightly divergent apically, apical part asymmetrical, suddenly and strongly convergent to a blunted tip (Fig. 58). Parameres slender, sparsely setose at apex, slightly shorter than penis guide (Fig. 59). Female genitalia: Tenth tergite broad, arc-shaped with terminal setae. Coxites broad, 0.4 times as long as wide, each with moderately long terminal setae (Fig. 60); spermatheca absent.
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Lizhi Huo, Xingmin Wang, Xiaosheng Chen, Shunxiang Ren
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Huo L, Wang X, Chen X, Ren S (2013) The genus Aspidimerus Mulsant, 1850 (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) from China, with descriptions of two new species ZooKeys 348: 47–75
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Lizhi Huo
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Xingmin Wang
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Xiaosheng Chen
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Shunxiang Ren
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China (Yunnan, Hainan, Taiwan); Vietnam.
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Lizhi Huo, Xingmin Wang, Xiaosheng Chen, Shunxiang Ren
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Huo L, Wang X, Chen X, Ren S (2013) The genus Aspidimerus Mulsant, 1850 (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) from China, with descriptions of two new species ZooKeys 348: 47–75
author
Lizhi Huo
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Xingmin Wang
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Xiaosheng Chen
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Shunxiang Ren
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