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Jauravia albidula, is a species of lady beetle endemic to Sri Lanka.

Description

Body length is about 2.8 to 3.0 mm. Body hemispherical. Body color pale yellowish brown. Eyes are black. Elytra margins are dark-brown. Metasternum and the first abdominal sternite are brownish. Head finely and sparsely punctured. Head clothed with golden, delicate and sparse pubescence. Pronotum deeply emarginate anteriorly with almost straight laterally. Pronotal punctation is fine, deep and sparse. Pronotal interspaces are coriaceous, and less bright. Pronotum clothed with golden, short, slightly erect pubescence. Elytral latera border with slightly raised at the humeral angle. Elytral punctation coarse, and shallow. Elytral interspaces are smooth and very shiny. Elytral pubescence is light golden. Ventrum with very fine and sparse punctures. Mesosternum, metasternum and abdominal sternites are coarse and clothed with golden, fine, short and sparse pubescence.

References

1. Crotch, George Robert. (1901). A revision of the coleopterous family Erotylidae / G.R. Crotch. Cambridge: University Press. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.9222.
2. Poorani, J. (2002-01-01). "An annotated checklist of the Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) (excluding Epilachninae) of the Indian Subregion". Oriental Insects. 36: 307–383. doi:10.1080/00305316.2002.10417335. ISSN 0030-5316. S2CID 86769172. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
3. "VIII.--A Revision of the Genus Jauravia" (PDF). THE ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY No. 98. FEBI~UAR¥ 1946. Retrieved 2021-09-15.

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