Scymninae

Scymninae
Nephus quadrimaculatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Coccinelloidea
Family: Coccinellidae
Subfamily: Scymninae
Larva of Cryptolaemus montrouzieri with wax secretions
Striped dwarf pine ladybird (Scymnus suturalis)

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

Genera

References

  1. "Scymninae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  2. "Scymninae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-01-25.

  • "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

  • 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.


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