Scymnus
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Coccinellidae
Name
Kugelann, 1794 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Scymnus Kugelann, 1794: 545. Type species: designated by Westwood 1838[1]: 43, Scymnus nigrinus Kugelann, 1794.
- Anisoscymnus Crotch, 1874: 273. Type species: Coccinella rufipes Fabricius, 1798, by original designation.
Diagnosis
Members of the subgenus Scymnus can be easily distinguished by the following combination of characters: body small, oval or elongate oval; antennae 11-segmented (Fig. 1f); prosternum having distinct carinae, nearly reaching the anterior margin (Fig. 1b); abdominal postcoxal line incomplete, recurved forward, never reaching lateral margin of ventrite; area surrounding by postcoxal line sparsely punctate; abdomen with six ventrites, 5th and 6th abdominal ventrites in male truncate or emarginate apically in male (Fig. 1i); female genitalia with distinct infundibulum.
Distribution
Worldwide (Chen et al. 2013[2]).
Taxon Treatment
- Rashid, A; Chen, X; Qiu, B; Wang, X; 2017: A new species of the subgenus Scymnus from Pakistan (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) ZooKeys, (694): 31-39. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Westwood J (1838) Synopsis of the genera of British insects [paginated separately], published with 'An introduction to the modern classification of insects, founded on the natural habits and corresponding organisations of the different families (2 vols)'. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 1–48.
- ↑ Chen X, Wang X, Ren S (2013) A review of the subgenus Scymnus of Scymnus from China (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae). Annales Zoologici 63(3): 417–499. https://doi.org/10.3161/000345413X672483
