Stethorus
| Stethorus | |
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| Stethorus punctillum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Coccinellidae |
| Subfamily: | Scymninae |
| Genus: | Stethorus Weise, 1885 |
Stethorus is a genus of spider mite destroyers in the family of beetles known as Coccinellidae. There are at least 20 described species in Stethorus.[1][2][3][4]
Species
These 22 species belong to the genus Stethorus:
- Stethorus aptus Kapur, 1948 g
- Stethorus balearicus Fursch, 1987 g
- Stethorus caseyi Gordon and Chapin, 1983 i c g
- Stethorus chengi Sasaji, 1968 g
- Stethorus comoriensis Chazeau, 1971 g
- Stethorus gilvifrons (Mulsant, 1850) g
- Stethorus hirashimai Sasaji, 1967 g
- Stethorus klapperichi Yu, 1995 g
- Stethorus loi Sasaji, 1968 g
- Stethorus muriculatus Yu, 1995 g
- Stethorus nigripes Kapur, 1948 i c g
- Stethorus pinachi Gordon and Chapin, 1983 i c g
- Stethorus proximus Chazeau, 1979 g
- Stethorus punctillum (Weise, 1891) i c g b (lesser mite destroyer)
- Stethorus punctum (LeConte, 1852) i c g b (spider mite destroyer)
- Stethorus pusillus (Herbst, 1797) g
- Stethorus siphonulus Kapur, 1948 i c g
- Stethorus sylvestris Chazeau, 1995 g
- Stethorus tenerifensis Fürsch, 1987 g
- Stethorus utilis (Horn, 1895) i c g b
- Stethorus vagans (Blackburn, 1892) g
- Stethorus wollastoni Kapur, 1948 g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]
References
- ^ a b "Stethorus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
- ^ a b "Browse Stethorus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
- ^ a b "Stethorus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
- ^ a b "Stethorus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-26.
Further reading
- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
- Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
- Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". Zookeys. 88 (88). Pensoft Publishers. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. ISSN 1313-2989.
- Casey, Thomas L. (1908). "Notes on the Coccinellidae". The Canadian Entomologist. 40 (11): 393–421.
- Gordon, Robert D. (1985). "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 93 (1): 1–912. ISSN 0028-7199.
- Gordon, Robert; Vandenberg, Natalia (1991). "Field guide to recently introduced species of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) in North America". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.
- LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
- Vandenberg, Natalia J. (2002). Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, M.C.; Skelley, P.E.; Frank, J.H. (eds.). Family 93; Coccinellidae Latreille 1807. American Beetles. Vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 371–389. ISBN 0-8493-0954-9.
- White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.
External links
Media related to Stethorus at Wikimedia Commons
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