Coelophora saucia

Lemnia saucia is a species of ladybird in the family Coccinellidae.[1][2]

Lemnia saucia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Coccinellidae
Genus:
Lemnia
Species:
Lemnia saucia
Binomial name
Lemnia saucia
Mulsant, 1850

Lemnia 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 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
  1. "Taxonomy browser (root)". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2020-11-12.
  2. "Mitochondrial genome of Lemnia saucia Mulsant ( Coleoptera : Coccinellidae ) and phylogenetic analysis". ResearchGate.
  3. "Lemnia saucia (Mulsant, 1850)". GBIF, Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  4. "Lemnia saucia 赤星瓢蟲". Catalogue of Life in Taiwan, TaiCoL. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  5. 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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