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Genus of beetles For the plant genus formerly using the name Serangium, see Monstera.

Serangium
Serangium parcesetosum adult
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Coccinellidae
Subfamily: Microweiseinae
Tribe: Serangiini
Genus: Serangium
Blackburn, 1889
Type species
Serangium mysticum
Blackburn, 1889
Serangium maculigerum larva, New Zealand

Serangium is a genus in the lady beetle family (Coccinellidae).

The genus was described by Blackburn in 1889, working in Australia. It had 45 described species in 2011, mainly from the Oriental Region.

In 2018, fossils of two species assigned to the genus, S. twardowskii and S. gedanicum, were described from Baltic amber of Eocene age.

Serangium maculigerum, the citrus whitefly ladybird, is a predator of pest insects such as Orchamoplatus citri, the Australian citrus whitefly.

Species

extant
  • S. japonicum
  • S. maculigerum
  • S. montazerii
  • S. parcesetosum
fossil
  • S. gedanicum (Szawaryn & Szwedo 2018)
  • S. kalandyki (Szawaryn 2019)
  • S. twardowskii (Szawaryn & Szwedo 2018)

References

  1. ^ Blackburn, Thomas (1889). "Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia (11): 175–214.
  2. Wang, Xingmin; Ren, Shunxiang; Chen, Xiaosheng (6 Oct 2011). "A review of the genus Serangium Blackburn (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) from China". ZooKeys (134): 33–63. doi:10.3897/zookeys.134.1715. PMC 3229210. PMID 22140341.
  3. ^ Szawaryn, Karol; Szwedo, Jacek (21 May 2018). "Have ladybird beetles and whiteflies co-existed for at least 40 Mya?". PalZ. 92 (4): 593–603. doi:10.1007/s12542-018-0409-5. S2CID 90619916.
  4. Martin, N. A. (2017). "Citrus whitefly ladybird - Serangium maculigerum". Landcare Research. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
  5. Szawaryn, Karol (26 March 2019). "Unexpected diversity of whitefly predators in Eocene Baltic amber—new fossil Serangium species (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)". Zootaxa. 4571 (2): 270. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4571.2.7. PMID 31715820. S2CID 109922678.
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