Brachiacantha is a genus of lady beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There are at least 25 described species in Brachiacantha.[1][2][3]
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| Brachiacantha ursina | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Coccinellidae |
| Subfamily: | Scymninae |
| Genus: | Brachiacantha Dejean, 1837 |
Species
edit- Brachiacantha albifrons (Say, 1824) (white-fronted lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha arizonica Schaeffer, 1908 (Arizona lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha aurantiapleura Nestor-Arriola, Solís and Toledo-Hernández, 2021
- Brachiacantha barberi Gordon, 1985 (Barber's lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha blaisdelli Nunenmacher, 1909
- Brachiacantha bollii Crotch, 1873 (Boll's lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha decempustulata (Melsheimer, 1847) (ten-spotted spurleg)
- Brachiacantha decora Casey, 1899 (decorated lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha dentata Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
- Brachiacantha dentipes (Fabricius, 1801)
- Brachiacantha felina (Fabricius, 1775)
- Brachiacantha floridensis Blatchley, 1916
- Brachiacantha gorhami (Weise, 1904)
- Brachiacantha guatemalensis (Gorham, 1894)
- Brachiacantha hexaspina González, Větrovec and Nestor-Arriola, 2021
- Brachiacantha illustris Casey, 1899
- Brachiacantha indubitabilis Crotch, 1873
- Brachiacantha invertita Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
- Brachiacantha isthmena Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
- Brachiacantha lepida Mulsant, 1850
- Brachiacantha mimica Nestor-Arriola and Toledo-Hernández, 2021
- Brachiacantha nubes Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
- Brachiacantha papiliona Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
- Brachiacantha quadrillum LeConte, 1858
- Brachiacantha quadripunctata Melsheimer, 1847
- Brachiacantha querceti Schwarz, 1878 (oak lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha rotunda (Fabricius, 1775)
- Brachiacantha schwarzi Gordon, 1985
- Brachiacantha soltaui Gordon, 1985
- Brachiacantha stephani Gordon, 1985 (Stephan's lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha subfasciata Mulsant, 1850
- Brachiacantha tau LeConte, 1859 (t-marked lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha testudo Casey, 1899 (turtle lady)
- Brachiacantha tica Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
- Brachiacantha ursina (Fabricius, 1787) (ursine spurleg lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha uteella Casey, 1908
References
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- ^ "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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