Illeis
| Illeis | |
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| Illeis galbula, Australia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Coccinellidae |
| Subfamily: | Coccinellinae |
| Tribe: | Coccinellini |
| Genus: | Illeis Mulsant, 1850 |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Illeis is a genus of ladybird beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There are 12 described species in Illeis, found in south and southeast Asia, and in Oceania.[2] They genus contains some of the few species of Coccinellidae beetles to feed on fungi.[3]
Species
[edit]These 12 species belong to the genus Illeis:
Subgenus Illeis (Illeis) Mulsant, 1850
[edit]- Illeis flava (Pope, 1988)
- Illeis galbula (Mulsant, 1850)
Subgenus Illeis (Hibachi) Kitano, 2014
[edit]- Illeis amboinensis Timberlake, 1943
- Illeis bielawskii Poorani & Lalitha, 2018
- Illeis bistigmosa Mulsant, 1850
- Illeis chinensis Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1978
- Illeis gressitti Bielawski, 1961
- Illeis luzonica Timberlake, 1943
- Illeis nevillei (Dohrn, 1882)
- Illeis ranamese (Bielawski, 1960)
- Illeis timberlakei (Bielawski, 1961)
- Illeis wyliei Ślipiński, Li & Pang, 2020
References
[edit]- ↑ "ITIS report, Illeis". Retrieved 2024-12-28.
- ↑ Kitano, Takanobu (2014). "Taxonomic notes on the genus Egleis Mulsant, 1850 and a description of a new subgenus in the genus Illeis Mulsant, 1850 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)" (PDF). Studies and reports (taxonomical series). 10 (2): 489–494. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
- ↑ Chan, Sow-Yan; Lau, Wing Lup (2022). "Biodiversity Record: A yellow spotless ladybird, Illeis koebelei" (PDF). Nature in Singapore. 15: 12. doi:10.26107/NIS-2022-0146. Retrieved 28 March 2026.
Further reading
[edit]- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.
External links
[edit]- Citizen science observations for Illeis at iNaturalist
Media related to Illeis at Wikimedia Commons
