Paranaemia
Appearance
Paranaemia | |
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P. vittigera, Yolo County, California, 2020 | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Superfamily: | Coccinelloidea |
Family: | Coccinellidae |
Subfamily: | Coccinellinae |
Genus: | Paranaemia Casey, 1899 |
Species: | P. vittigera
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Binomial name | |
Paranaemia vittigera (Mannerheim, 1843)
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Synonyms | |
Hippodamia vittigera Mannerheim, 1843 |
Paranaemia is a genus of lady beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There is one described species in Paranaemia, P. vittigera, the broad-striped lady beetle.[1][2][3] The broad-striped lady beetle is native to western North America.[4] Like other ladybugs, it preys on aphids.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Paranaemia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Paranaemia". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Paranaemia genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Species Paranaemia vittigera - Striped Lady Beetle". bugguide.net. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ Gardiner, Mary (2015). Good Garden Bugs: Everything You Need to Know about Beneficial Predatory Insects. Quarry Books. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-59253-909-3.
Further reading
[edit]- Fürsch, Helmut (1990). "Valid genera and subgenera of Coccinellidae" (PDF). Coccinella. 2 (1): 7–18. ISSN 0935-8196.
- Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 4: Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757675.