Cynegetis
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| Cynegetis | |
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| Cynegetis impunctata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Coccinellidae |
| Subfamily: | Epilachninae |
| Genus: | Cynegetis Chevrolat in Dejean, 1835 |
| Species | |
Cynegetis is a genus of Coccinellidae native to Eurasia. The genus was first established by Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat in 1835, and contains only three species.
Species
[edit]Cynegetis contains three species:[1]
- Cynegetis impunctata Linnaeus, 1958
- Cynegetis syriaca Mader, 1958
- Cynegetis chinensis Wang and Ren, 2014
Description
[edit]The species in the Cynegetis genus have oval and strongly convex bodies, well-developed spurs on all tibiae, and similar male and female genitalia.[1] These descriptions are similar to the Subcoccinella genus and are also similar in their larvae, which have similar shapes and armatures of their body walls.[1]
Distribution
[edit]The genus is distributed in the Palaearctic region.[2] In Europe, countries of occurrence include Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Western Russia.[1] In Asia, countries of occurrence include China (Ningxia), Eastern Russia (Maritime Province), Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Turkey.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 Wang, Xingmin; Tomaszewska, Wioletta; Ren, Shunxiang (2014-10-20). "A new species and first record of the genus Cynegetis Chevrolat (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae, Epilachnini) from China". ZooKeys (448): 37–45. doi:10.3897/zookeys.448.8342. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 4233393. PMID 25408609.
- ↑ Tomaszewska, Wioletta; Szawaryn, Karol (2013-01-16). "Revision of the Asian species of Afidentula Kapur, 1958 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Epilachnini)". Zootaxa. 3608 (1): 26–50. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 24614446.
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