December 2011. A request from the Ivory Coast for information on ladybird beetles in the genus Chilocorus. The species in the photos is said to have red spots on the elytra, making it different from C. infernalis, C. bipustulatus, C. kuwanae and C. cacti. An identification key of the genus Chilocorus is needed.

A request was made to Professor Hong Pang, Zhongshan (Sun Yat Sen) University, Guangzhou, and this is what she said:

I only have a key of Chilocorus for the Chinese fauna. Contact Dr.Guillermo Gonz??lez ([email protected] ). He has a website for Coccinellidae (http://www.coccinellidae.cl/) of Chile, Peru and Argentina.