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Scymninae

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Scymninae
Nephus quadrimaculatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Coccinellidae
Subfamily: Scymninae
Mulsant, 1846
Tribes

Aspidimerini
Brachiacanthadini
Cryptognathini
Hyperaspidini
Pentiliini
Scymnini
Selvadiini
Stethorini

Cryptolaemus montrouzieri With aphids
Larva of Cryptolaemus montrouzieri with wax secretions
Striped dwarf pine ladybird (Scymnus suturalis)
Pied ladybug ladybird (Hyperaspidius sp.)

Scymninae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There are at least 170 described species in Scymninae.[1][2]

Genera

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References

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  1. ^ "Scymninae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Scymninae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  • "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico", Robert D. Gordon. 1985. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 93, No. 1.
  • Gordon, Robert D. (1985). "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico". Journal of the New York Entomological Society, vol. 93, no. 1, 1–912.
  • Kuznetsov, Victor N. (1997). "Lady Beetles of the Russian Far East". Center for Systematic Entomology, Memoir No. 1, xii + 248.
  • Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds. (1995). "Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)". Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2, 779–1006.
  • Vandenberg, Natalia J. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 93; Coccinellidae Latreille 1807". American Beetles, vol. 2; Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 371–389.

Further reading

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  • NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Scymninae
  • Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  • Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.