Megalocaria dilatata

Appearance

Length 10.0-12.5 mm, width 9.0-10.0 mm. Form round, hemispherical and strongly convex. Ground colour bright reddish/orange yellow with black markings as follows: head with a transverse basal marking and a pair of elongate, oblique spots on either side of lower margin of eyes, two oval spots (one on either side above scutellum) on posterior margin of pronotum and ten black spots on elytra arranged in a 1-2-2 pattern. Scutellum black. Ventral side uniformly reddish or yellowish brown. Elytra slightly asymmetrical, with one elytron slightly longer than the other. Postcoxal line on abdominal ventrite 1 incomplete. Larva bluish grey and orange, with a thin powdery dust on dorsal side.

Naming

This species was transferred to Megalocaria by Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1982), but the name Anisolemnia dilatata is more widely known and used in the literature.