Scymninae

Scymninae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There are at least 170 described species in Scymninae.[1][2]

Scymninae
Nephus quadrimaculatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Coccinellidae
Subfamily: Scymninae
Mulsant, 1846
Tribes

Aspidimerini
Brachiacanthadini
Cryptognathini
Hyperaspidini
Pentiliini
Scymnini
Selvadiini
Stethorini

Larva of Cryptolaemus montrouzieri with wax secretions
Striped dwarf pine ladybird (Scymnus suturalis)

Genera

  • Acarinus Kapur, 1948
  • Acoccidula Barowskij, 1931
  • Andrzej Slipinski, 2007
  • Aponephus Booth, 1991
  • Apseudoscymnus Hoang, 1984
  • Aspidimerus Mulsant, 1850
  • Axinoscymnus Kamiya, 1963
  • Blaisdelliana Gordon, 1970
  • Brachiacantha Chevrolat in Dejean, 1837 (spurleg lady beetles)
  • Calloeneis Grote, 1873
  • Clitostethus Weise, 1885 (=Nephaspis)
  • Crypticolus Strohecker, 1953
  • Cryptognatha Mulsant, 1850
  • Cryptogonus Mulsant, 1850
  • Curticornis Gordon, 1971
  • Cyra Mulsant, 1850
  • Cyrema Blackburn, 1889
  • Decadiomus Chapin, 1933
  • Diazonema Weise, 1926
  • Dichaina Weise, 1926
  • Didion Casey, 1899
  • Diomus Mulsant, 1850
  • Erratodiomus Gordon, 1999
  • Helesius Casey, 1899
  • Heterodiomus Brèthes, 1924
  • Hinda Mulsant, 1850
  • Horniolus Weise, 1901
  • Hyperaspidius Crotch, 1873
  • Hyperaspis Chevrolat in Dejean, 1837
  • Keiscymnus Sasaji, 1971
  • Leptoscymnus Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1978
  • Magnodiomus Gordon, 1999
  • Midus Mulsant, 1850
  • Mimoscymnus Gordon, 1994
  • Moiradiomus Vandenberg & Hanson, 2019
  • Nephus Mulsant, 1846
  • Parasidis Brèthes, 1924
  • Pentilia Mulsant, 1850
  • Planorbata Gordon, 1994
  • Platynaspis Redtenbacher, 1843
  • Propiptus Weise, 1901
  • Pseudaspidimerus Kapur, 1948
  • Pullosidis Fürsch, 1987
  • Sasajiscymnus Vandenberg, 2004
  • Scymniscus Dobzhanskiy, 1928
  • Scymnobius Casey, 1899
  • Scymnus Kugelann, 1794
  • Selvadius Casey, 1899 (amber lady beetles)
  • Stethorus Weise, 1885 (spider mite destroyers)
  • Thalassa Mulsant, 1850
  • Tiphysa Mulsant, 1850
  • Veronicobius Broun, 1893
  • Viridigloba Gordon, 1978
  • Zagloba Casey, 1899 (scalehunter lady beetles)
  • Zilus Mulsant, 1850 (velvethead lady beetles)

References

  1. "Scymninae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  2. "Scymninae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  • "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico", Robert D. Gordon. 1985. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 93, No. 1.
  • Gordon, Robert D. (1985). "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico". Journal of the New York Entomological Society, vol. 93, no. 1, 1-912.
  • Kuznetsov, Victor N. (1997). "Lady Beetles of the Russian Far East". Center for Systematic Entomology, Memoir No. 1, xii + 248.
  • Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds. (1995). "Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)". Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2, 779-1006.
  • Vandenberg, Natalia J. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 93; Coccinellidae Latreille 1807". American Beetles, vol. 2; Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 371-389.

Further reading

  • NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Scymninae
  • Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  • Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.


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