Coleomegilla maculata

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: Coccinellini
Genus: Coleomegilla
Species: Coleomegilla maculata
Subpecies: C. m. fuscilabris – C. m. lengi – C. m. medialis – C. m. strenua – ...

Name

Coleomegilla maculata (De Geer, 1775)

original combination: Coccinella maculata De Geer, 1775: 392
Authority for current placement: Mulsant, 1850: 28
Type locality: Surinam

Synonyms

Chrysomela decemmaculata Fabricius, 1775: 105 (preocc.) (syn. Crotch, 1874: 8)
Coccinella oblonga Olivier, 1791: 61 (syn. Mulsant, 1850: 28)
Coccinella bissexpunctata Latreille, 1833: 37 (syn. Mulsant, 1850: 29)
Coccinella limensis Philippi & Philippi, 1864: 402 (syn. Crotch, 1874: 92)
Naemia fuscilabris Mulsant, 1866: 22 (ibid.)
Megilla strenua Casey, 1899: 76 (syn. Bowditch, 1902: 205)
Megilla medialis Casey, 1899: 76 (syn. Timberlake, 1943: 10)
Megilla maculata var. floridana Leng, 1903: 38
Coleomegilla maculata lengi Timberlake, 1943: 9

References

Primary references

De Geer, C. 1775. Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des Insectes. Tome cinquième. Pierre Hesselberg, Stockholm. vii + [1 (Errata)] + 448 pp., 16 pls. Gallica. Google books . Reference page.
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.

Additional references

Bowditch, F.C. 1902. Notes on Casey's Revision of the American Coccinellidae. Entomological News 13: 205–207. BHL Reference page.
Casey, T.L. 1899. A revision of the American Coccinellidae; with Appendix of Coccinellidae taken in equatorial and southern Africa during the Transit of Venus expedition to the Cape of Good Hope in 1882. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 7(2): 71–169. BHL Reference page.
Crotch, G.R. (†) 1874. A revision of the coleopterous family Coccinellidae. E. W. Janson, London. xv. + 311 pp. Internet Archive BHL. Reference page.
Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. Libraria Kortii, Flensburgi et Lipsiae. xvi+ 832 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.36510. BHL. Reference page.
Gordon, R.D. 1985. The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America north of Mexico. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 93(1): 1–916. BHL Reference page.
Gorham, H.S., 1887-1899. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Coleoptera Vol. VII: Erotylidae, Endomychidae and Coccinellidae. BHL. Reference page.
Latreille, P.A. 1833. Insectes de l'Amerique equinoxiale. Pp. 9-138. in Humboldt H. & Bonpland. A. (eds.) Recueil d'Observations de Zoologie et d'Anatomie Comparée; faites dans l'ocean Atlantique, dans l'Interior du nouveau continent et dans le mer du Sud, pendant les années 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802 et 1803, 2. J. Smith et Gide, Paris; 352 pp + Pl. xli-lvii. BHL Reference page.
Mulsant, E. 1866. Monographie des Coccinellides. 1re partie: Coccinelliens. F. Savy, Deyrolle, Paris. Pp. 1–192, 195–294. Google Books Reference page.
Olivier, G.-A. 1791–1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Insectes. Tome sixième. Paris: Panckoucke, 704 pp. BHL. Google Books. Reference page.
Philippi, R. A. & Philippi, F. 1864. Beschreibung einiger neuen Chilenischen Käfer. Stett. Entomologische Zeitung 25(10-12): 313–406. BHL Reference page.
Timberlake P.H., 1920. Correction of two generic names in Coleoptera and Hymenoptera. The Canadian Entomologist 52(4): 96. BHL Reference page.
Timberlake P.H. 1943. The Coccinellidae or ladybeetles of the Koebele collection–Part I. Hawaiian Planters' Record 47: 1–67. Internet Archive Reference page.
Krafsur, E.S. & Obrycki, J.J. 2000. Coleomegilla maculata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) is a Species Complex. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 93(5): 1156–1163. DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2000)093[1156:CMCCIA]2.0.CO;2
Pérez, O.G & Hoy, M/A. 2002. Reproductive Incompatibility between Two Subspecies of Coleomegilla maculata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). The Florida Entomologist 85(1): 203–207. JSTOR