Brachiacantha

Brachiacantha
Brachiacantha ursina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Coccinellidae
Tribe:	Brachiacanthini
Genus:	Brachiacantha Dejean, 1837
Synonyms
Brachyacantha Cleothera (Cyra)Mulsant, 1850 Cyra

Brachiacantha is a genus of lady beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There are at least 25 described species in Brachiacantha. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Brachiacantha ursina

Species

• bistripustulata group
  • Brachiacantha bistripustulata (Fabricius, 1801) (decorated lady beetle)
• buckleyi group
  • Brachiacantha buckleyi Crotch, 1874
  • Brachiacantha charlotte Gordon & Canepari, 2014
• sellata group
  • Brachiacantha sellata Mulsant, 1850
  • Brachiacantha bruchi Weise, 1904
  • Brachiacantha esther Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha pauline Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha emma Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha jamie Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha joanne Gordon & Canepari, 2014
• juanita group
  • Brachiacantha juanita Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha anita Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha hazel Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha armandi (Mulsant, 1850)
  • Brachiacantha margaritae (Crotch, 1874)
  • Brachiacantha octopustulata (Fabricius, 1801)
  • Brachiacantha loricata (Mulsant, 1850)
  • Brachiacantha lynn Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha sally Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha regina Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha darlene Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha veronica Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha lauren Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha cathy Gordon & Canepari, 2014
• jill group
  • Brachiacantha jill Gordon & Canepari, 2014
• blandula group
  • Brachiacantha blandula (Weise, 1902)
  • Brachiacantha april Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha clara Gordon & Canepari, 2014
• groendali group
  • Brachiacantha groendali (Mulsant, 1850)
  • Brachiacantha eva Gordon & Canepari, 2014
• debbie group
  • Brachiacantha debbie Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha monica Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha parva (Mulsant, 1850)
  • Brachiacantha amber Gordon & Canepari, 2014
• leslie group
  • Brachiacantha leslie Gordon & Canepari, 2014
• trimaculata group
  • Brachiacantha trimaculata Leng, 1911
• tucumanensis group
  • Brachiacantha eleanor Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha tucumanensis Weise, 1911
  • Brachiacantha valerie Gordon & Canepari, 2014
• bahiensis group
  • Brachiacantha bahiensis Brèthes, 1925
  • Brachiacantha pseudoarrowi Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha danielle Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha gail Gordon & Canepari, 2014
• group unassigned/unknown
  • Brachiacantha appropinquata (Mulsant, 1850)
  • Brachiacantha argentinica (Weise, 1922)
  • Brachiacantha bilineata Weise, 1902
  • Brachiacantha egae (Crotch, 1874)
  • Brachiacantha sicardi Leng, 1911
  • Brachiacantha steineri Gordon & Canepari, 2014
  • Brachiacantha albifrons (Say, 1824) (white-fronted lady beetle)
  • Brachiacantha arizonica Schaeffer, 1908 (Arizona lady beetle)
  • Brachiacantha aurantiapleura Nestor-Arriola, Solís and Toledo-Hernández, 2021
  • Brachiacantha barberi Gordon, 1985 (Barber's lady beetle)
  • Brachiacantha blaisdelli Nunenmacher, 1909
  • Brachiacantha bollii Crotch, 1873 (Boll's lady beetle)
  • Brachiacantha decempustulata (Melsheimer, 1847) (ten-spotted spurleg)
  • Brachiacantha dentata Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
  • Brachiacantha dentipes (Fabricius, 1801)
  • Brachiacantha felina (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Brachiacantha floridensis Blatchley, 1916
  • Brachiacantha gorhami (Weise, 1904)
  • Brachiacantha guatemalensis (Gorham, 1894)
  • Brachiacantha hexaspina González, Větrovec and Nestor-Arriola, 2021
  • Brachiacantha illustris Casey, 1899
  • Brachiacantha indubitabilis Crotch, 1873
  • Brachiacantha invertita Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
  • Brachiacantha isthmena Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
  • Brachiacantha lepida Mulsant, 1850
  • Brachiacantha mimica Nestor-Arriola and Toledo-Hernández, 2021
  • Brachiacantha nubes Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
  • Brachiacantha papiliona Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
  • Brachiacantha quadrillum LeConte, 1858
  • Brachiacantha quadripunctata Melsheimer, 1847
  • Brachiacantha querceti Schwarz, 1878 (oak lady beetle)
  • Brachiacantha rotunda Gordon, 1985
  • Brachiacantha schwarzi Gordon, 1985
  • Brachiacantha soltaui Gordon, 1985
  • Brachiacantha stephani Gordon, 1985 (Stephan's lady beetle)
  • Brachiacantha subfasciata Mulsant, 1850
  • Brachiacantha tau LeConte, 1859 (t-marked lady beetle)
  • Brachiacantha testudo Casey, 1899 (turtle lady)
  • Brachiacantha tica Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
  • Brachiacantha ursina (Fabricius, 1787) (ursine spurleg lady beetle)
  • Brachiacantha uteella Casey, 1908

References

• Insects portal

1. "Brachiacantha Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
2. "Brachiacantha Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
3. Nestor-Arriola, Jorge Ismael; Toledo-Hernández, Víctor Hugo; Solís, Ángel; González, Guillermo; Větrovec, Jaroslav (16 March 2021). "The Brachiacantha Dejean, 1837 (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) of Central America". ZooKeys (1024): 157–196. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1024.56927 . PMC   7990858 . PMID   33786006.

• "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico", Robert D. Gordon. 1985. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 93, No. 1.
• Belicek, Joseph (1976). "Coccinellidae of western Canada and Alaska with analyses of the transmontane zoogeographic relationships between the fauna of British Columbia and Alberta (Insecta: Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)". Quaestiones Entomologicae, vol. 12, no. 4, 283–409.
• Canepari, Claudio (1990). "Who is the author of several genera of Coccinellidae: CHEVROLAT or DEJEAN?". Coccinella, vol. 2, no. 1, 38–39.
• Duverger, Christian (2001). "Contribution à la connaissance des Hyperaspidinae (2ème note)". Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Bordeaux, vol. 29, no. 4, 221–228.
• 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.
• Montgomery, H. Wilson Jr., and Michael A. Goodrich (2002). "The Brachiacantha (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of Illinois". Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science, vol. 95, no. 2, 111–130.
• 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, Brachiacantha
• 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.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.