Coelophora saucia is a species of ladybird in the family Coccinellidae.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Coccinellidae |
| Genus: | Coelophora |
| Species: | C. saucia
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| Coelophora saucia (Mulsant, 1850)
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| Synonyms | |
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Lemnia saucia Mulsant, 1850 | |
Coelophora saucia is endemic to Asia and can be found in India, Japan and the Philippines. It has also been collected in the Indochinese peninsula. It was introduced to Taiwan in order to control aphids (Aphidoidea) which feed on the country's sugar cane crops.[3][4]
It was first described as Lemnia saucia by French entomologist, Étienne Mulsant, in 1850 from the collections of Frederick William Hope and John O. Westwood in the British Museum of Natural History.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Taxonomy browser (root)". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2020-11-12.
- ^ "Mitochondrial genome of Lemnia saucia Mulsant ( Coleoptera : Coccinellidae ) and phylogenetic analysis". ResearchGate.
- ^ "Lemnia saucia (Mulsant, 1850)". GBIF, Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ^ "Lemnia saucia 赤星瓢蟲". Catalogue of Life in Taiwan, TaiCoL. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ^ Booth, R. G.; Booth, R. D. "A review of the type material of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) described by F.W. Hope, and by E. Mulsant in the Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 20: 343–370.
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