Brachiacantha
Appearance
| Brachiacantha | |
|---|---|
| Brachiacantha ursina | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Coccinellidae |
| Tribe: | Brachiacanthini |
| Genus: | Brachiacantha Dejean, 1837 |
| Synonyms | |
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Brachiacantha is a genus of lady beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There are at least 25 described species in Brachiacantha.[1][2][3]

Species
[edit]- buckleyi group
- Brachiacantha buckleyi Crotch, 1874
- Brachiacantha charlotte Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- dentipes group/bistripustulata group
- Brachiacantha barberi Gordon, 1985 (Barber's lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha bistripustulata (Fabricius, 1801) (decorated lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha dentipes (Fabricius, 1801)
- Brachiacantha erythrura (Mulsant, 1850)
- Brachiacantha robustihamata Nestor-Arriola & Toledo-Hernández, 2017
- Brachiacantha subfasciata Mulsant, 1850
- Brachiacantha truncata Nestor-Arriola & Toledo-Hernández, 2017
- sellata group
- Brachiacantha sellata Mulsant, 1850
- Brachiacantha bruchi Weise, 1904
- Brachiacantha esther Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha pauline Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha emma Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha jamie Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha joanne Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- juanita group
- Brachiacantha anita Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha aperta Weise, 1903
- Brachiacantha armandi (Mulsant, 1850)
- Brachiacantha bipartita Mulsant, 1850
- Brachiacantha cathy Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha darlene Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha dentata Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
- Brachiacantha hazel Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha juanita Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha lauren Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha loricata (Mulsant, 1850)
- Brachiacantha lynn Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha margaritae (Crotch, 1874)
- Brachiacantha regina Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha octopustulata (Fabricius, 1801)
- Brachiacantha octostigma Mulsant, 1850
- Brachiacantha sally Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha veronica Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- jill group
- Brachiacantha jill Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- blandula group
- Brachiacantha blandula (Weise, 1902)
- Brachiacantha april Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha clara Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- groendali group
- Brachiacantha groendali (Mulsant, 1850)
- Brachiacantha eva Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- debbie group
- Brachiacantha debbie Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha monica Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha parva (Mulsant, 1850)
- Brachiacantha amber Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- leslie group
- Brachiacantha leslie Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- trimaculata group
- Brachiacantha trimaculata Leng, 1911
- tucumanensis group
- Brachiacantha aurantiapleura Nestor-Arriola, Solís and Toledo-Hernández, 2021
- Brachiacantha eleanor Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha isthmena Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
- Brachiacantha tucumanensis Weise, 1911
- Brachiacantha valerie Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- bahiensis group
- Brachiacantha bahiensis Brèthes, 1925
- Brachiacantha pseudoarrowi Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha danielle Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha gail Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- lepida group
- Brachiacantha fenestrata Gorham, 1894
- Brachiacantha indubitabilis Crotch, 1873
- Brachiacantha lepida Mulsant, 1850
- Brachiacantha nubes Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
- ursina group
- Brachiacantha guatemalensis (Gorham, 1894)
- Brachiacantha ursina (Fabricius, 1787) (ursine spurleg lady beetle)
- invertita group
- Brachiacantha invertita Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
- cachensis group
- Brachiacantha cachensis Gorham, 1894
- Brachiacantha gorhami (Weise, 1904)
- Brachiacantha hexaspina González, Větrovec and Nestor-Arriola, 2021
- Brachiacantha mimica Nestor-Arriola and Toledo-Hernández, 2021
- Brachiacantha papiliona Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
- Brachiacantha tica Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
- group unassigned/unknown
- Brachiacantha appropinquata (Mulsant, 1850)
- Brachiacantha argentinica (Weise, 1922)
- Brachiacantha bilineata Weise, 1902
- Brachiacantha egae (Crotch, 1874)
- Brachiacantha sicardi Leng, 1911
- Brachiacantha steineri Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha albifrons (Say, 1824) (white-fronted lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha arizonica Schaeffer, 1908 (Arizona lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha blaisdelli Nunenmacher, 1909
- Brachiacantha bollii Crotch, 1873 (Boll's lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha decempustulata (Melsheimer, 1847) (ten-spotted spurleg)
- Brachiacantha felina (Fabricius, 1775)
- Brachiacantha floridensis Blatchley, 1916
- Brachiacantha illustris Casey, 1899
- Brachiacantha quadrillum LeConte, 1858
- Brachiacantha quadripunctata Melsheimer, 1847
- Brachiacantha querceti Schwarz, 1878 (oak lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha rotunda Gordon, 1985
- Brachiacantha schwarzi Gordon, 1985
- Brachiacantha soltaui Gordon, 1985
- Brachiacantha stephani Gordon, 1985 (Stephan's lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha tau LeConte, 1859 (t-marked lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha testudo Casey, 1899 (turtle lady)
- Brachiacantha uteella Casey, 1908
- Brachiacantha angulata Nestor-Arriola & Toledo-Hernández, 2017
- Brachiacantha aymardi Gorham, 1894
- Brachiacantha brevicuspidata Nestor-Arriola & Toledo-Hernández, 2017
- Brachiacantha conjuncta Mulsant, 1850
- Brachiacantha cryptocephalina Gorham, 1894
- Brachiacantha distincta Nunenmacher, 1948
- Brachiacantha mexicana Leng, 1911
- Brachiacantha neglecta Nunenmacher, 1948
- Brachiacantha octosignata Mader, 1958
- Brachiacantha pygidialis Mulsant, 1850
- Brachiacantha westwoodii Mulsant, 1850
Selected former species
[edit]- Brachiacantha brevihamata Nestor-Arriola & Toledo-Hernández, 2017
References
[edit]- ↑ "Brachiacantha Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- ↑ "Brachiacantha Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- ↑ Nestor-Arriola, Jorge Ismael; Toledo-Hernández, Víctor Hugo; Solís, Ángel; González, Guillermo; Větrovec, Jaroslav (16 March 2021). "The Brachiacantha Dejean, 1837 (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) of Central America". ZooKeys (1024): 157–196. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1024.56927. PMC 7990858. PMID 33786006.
- "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico", Robert D. Gordon. 1985. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 93, No. 1.
- Belicek, Joseph (1976). "Coccinellidae of western Canada and Alaska with analyses of the transmontane zoogeographic relationships between the fauna of British Columbia and Alberta (Insecta: Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)". Quaestiones Entomologicae, vol. 12, no. 4, 283–409.
- Canepari, Claudio (1990). "Who is the author of several genera of Coccinellidae: CHEVROLAT or DEJEAN?". Coccinella, vol. 2, no. 1, 38–39.
- Duverger, Christian (2001). "Contribution à la connaissance des Hyperaspidinae (2ème note)". Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Bordeaux, vol. 29, no. 4, 221–228.
- 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.
- Montgomery, H. Wilson Jr., and Michael A. Goodrich (2002). "The Brachiacantha (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of Illinois". Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science, vol. 95, no. 2, 111–130.
- 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
[edit]- NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Brachiacantha
- 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.
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
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