Coccidula

Coccidula
Coccidula rufa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Coccinellidae
Tribe:	Coccidulini
Genus:	Coccidula Kugelann, 1798
Synonyms
StrongylusPanzer, 1813 CacidulaDejean, 1821 CaciculaStephens, 1831

Coccidula is a genus of lady beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There are five species described in Coccidula. ^[1]

Coccidula scutellata

Species

These five species belong to the genus Coccidula:

• Coccidula lepida LeConte, 1852 (snow lady beetle)
• Coccidula litophiloides Reitter, 1890
• Coccidula reitteri Dodge, 1938
• Coccidula rufa (Herbst, 1783)
• Coccidula scutellata (Herbst, 1783)

References

1. Szawaryn, Karol; Nedvěd, Oldřich; Biranvand, Amir; Czerwiński, Tomasz; Nattier, Romain (11 June 2021). "Revision of the genus Coccidula Kugelann (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae)". ZooKeys (1043): 61–85. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1043.65829 . PMC   8213682 . PMID   34163295.

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN   978-0849309540.
• Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
• Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   3088472 . PMID   21594053.
• Casey, Thomas L. (1908). "Notes on the Coccinellidae". The Canadian Entomologist. 40 (11): 393–421. doi:10.4039/Ent40393-11.
• Gordon, Robert D. (1985). "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 93 (1): 1–912. ISSN   0028-7199.
• Gordon, Robert; Vandenberg, Natalia (1991). "Field guide to recently introduced species of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) in North America". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.38459 . ISBN   0665100558.
• Vandenberg, Natalia J. (2002). Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, M.C.; Skelley, P.E.; Frank, J.H. (eds.). Family 93; Coccinellidae Latreille 1807. American Beetles. Vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 371–389. ISBN   0-8493-0954-9.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides) . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   0395910897.

External links

• Media related to Coccidula at Wikimedia Commons