Serangium

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Serangium
Serangium parcesetosum Sicard, 1929; Nontype; NHMUK014527925; Dorsal habitus (cropped).jpg
Serangium parcesetosum adult
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Coccinellidae
Subfamily: Microweiseinae
Tribe: Serangiini
Genus: Serangium
Blackburn, 1889 [1]
Type species
Serangium mysticum
Blackburn, 1889
Serangium maculigerum larva, New Zealand Serangium maculigerum larva.jpg
Serangium maculigerum larva, New Zealand

Serangium is a genus in the lady beetle family (Coccinellidae).

The genus was described by Blackburn in 1889, working in Australia. [1] It had 45 described species in 2011, mainly from the Oriental Region. [2]

In 2018, fossils of two species assigned to the genus, S. twardowskii and S. gedanicum, were described from Baltic amber of Eocene age. [3]

Serangium maculigerum, the citrus whitefly ladybird, is a predator of pest insects such as Orchamoplatus citri, the Australian citrus whitefly. [4]

Species

extant
fossil

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References

  1. 1 2 Blackburn, Thomas (1889). "Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia (11): 175–214.
  2. Wang, Xingmin; Ren, Shunxiang; Chen, Xiaosheng (6 Oct 2011). "A review of the genus Serangium Blackburn (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) from China". ZooKeys (134): 33–63. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.134.1715 . PMC   3229210 . PMID   22140341.
  3. 1 2 3 Szawaryn, Karol; Szwedo, Jacek (21 May 2018). "Have ladybird beetles and whiteflies co-existed for at least 40 Mya?". PalZ. 92 (4): 593–603. doi:10.1007/s12542-018-0409-5. S2CID   90619916.
  4. Martin, N. A. (2017). "Citrus whitefly ladybird - Serangium maculigerum". Landcare Research. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  5. Szawaryn, Karol (26 March 2019). "Unexpected diversity of whitefly predators in Eocene Baltic amber—new fossil Serangium species (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)". Zootaxa. 4571 (2): 270. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4571.2.7. PMID   31715820. S2CID   109922678.