Diekeana grayi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Coccinelloidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Coccinelloidea

Familia: Coccinellidae
Subfamilia: Coccinellinae
Tribus: Epilachnini
Genus: Diekeana
Species: Diekeana grayi

Name

Diekeana grayi (Mulsant, 1850)

• original combination: Epilachna grayi Mulsant, 1850: 774
• Type locality: Bengal
• Holotype: male ♂, OXUM (designated by Booth in Booth & Pope, 1989: 354)

References

Primary references

• Mulsant, E. 1850. Species des Coléoptères trimères sécuripalpes. Annales des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, d’Agriculture et d’Industrie, Lyon (2) 2: 1–1104. BHL Reference page. 
• Ohta-Matsubayashi, Y., Katakura, H., Kahono, S. & Kikuchi, N., 2017. A taxonomic review of the phytophagous ladybird beetles of the Diekeana alternans complex (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Epilachnini) with descriptions of eight new species and one new subspecies. Insecta matsumurana (n.s.) 73: 1-37. Full text PDF Reference page. 
• Booth, R.G. & Pope, R.D. 1989: A review of the type material of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) described by F.W. Hope, and by E. Mulsant in the Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford. Entomologica Scandinavica, 20(3): 343–370. DOI: 10.1163/187631289X00366 Full text PDF Reference page. 

Additional references

• Dieke, G.H. 1947. Ladybeetles of the genus Epilachna (sens. lat.) in Asia, Europe, and Australia. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Washington 106(15): 1-183. BHL Reference page.