Didion (beetle)

Didion
Didion punctatum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Coccinellidae
Tribe:	Scymnini
Genus:	Didion Casey, 1899

Didion is a genus of dusky lady beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There are at least three described species in Didion. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Species

These three species belong to the genus Didion:

• Didion longulum Casey, 1899 ^{i c g b}
• Didion nanum (LeConte, 1852) ^{i c g}
• Didion punctatum (Melsheimer, 1847) ^{i c g b} (twice-stained ladybug)

Data sources: i = ITIS, ^[1] c = Catalogue of Life, ^[2] g = GBIF, ^[3] b = Bugguide.net ^[4]

References

1. "Didion". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 2018-04-07.
2. "Browse Didion". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
3. "Didion". Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 2018-04-07.
4. "Didion Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
5. "Didion Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-07.

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): 1–972. Bibcode:2011ZooK...88....1B. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . 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.