Coleomegilla

Coleomegilla
Coleomegilla maculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Coccinellidae
Tribe:	Coccinellini
Genus:	Coleomegilla Timberlake, 1920
Synonyms
MegillaMulsant, 1850 (preocc.)

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

Coleomegilla maculata

Species

These species belong to the genus Coleomegilla:

• Coleomegilla cubensis (Casey, 1908)
• Coleomegilla innotata (Mulsant, 1850)
• Coleomegilla maculata (De Geer, 1775) (pink spotted lady beetle)
• Coleomegilla occulta González, 2014
• Coleomegilla quadrifasciata (Thunberg, 1808)

References

1. "Coleomegilla Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
2. "Coleomegilla". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-12-25.
3. "Coleomegilla genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-12-25.

Further reading

• Fürsch, Helmut (1990). "Valid genera and subgenera of Coccinellidae" (PDF). Coccinella. 2 (1): 7–18. ISSN   0935-8196.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN   978-8788757675.
• Perez, O. G.; Hoy, M. A. (2002). "Reproductive incompatibility between two subspecies of Coleomegilla maculata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)". The Florida Entomologist. 85 (1): 203–207. doi: 10.1653/0015-4040(2002)085[0203:RIBTSO]2.0.CO;2 . JSTOR   3496840. Archived from the original on 2019-04-21. Retrieved 2019-12-25.

External links

• Media related to Coleomegilla at Wikimedia Commons