| Serangium | |
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| Serangium parcesetosum adult | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Coccinellidae |
| Subfamily: | Microweiseinae |
| Tribe: | Serangiini |
| Genus: | Serangium Blackburn, 1889 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Serangium mysticum Blackburn, 1889 | |
| Synonyms | |
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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]
