Brachiacantha

Brachiacantha
Brachiacantha ursina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Coccinellidae
Subfamily:	Scymninae
Genus:	Brachiacantha Dejean, 1837

Brachiacantha is a genus of lady beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There are at least 25 described species in Brachiacantha.[1][2][3]

Brachiacantha ursina

Species

• Brachiacantha albifrons (Say, 1824) (white-fronted lady beetle)
• Brachiacantha arizonica Schaeffer, 1908 (Arizona lady beetle)
• Brachiacantha aurantiapleura Nestor-Arriola, Solís and Toledo-Hernández, 2021
• Brachiacantha barberi Gordon, 1985 (Barber's lady beetle)
• Brachiacantha blaisdelli Nunenmacher, 1909
• Brachiacantha bollii Crotch, 1873 (Boll's lady beetle)
• Brachiacantha decempustulata (Melsheimer, 1847) (ten-spotted spurleg)
• Brachiacantha decora Casey, 1899 (decorated lady beetle)
• Brachiacantha dentata Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
• Brachiacantha dentipes (Fabricius, 1801)
• Brachiacantha felina (Fabricius, 1775)
• Brachiacantha floridensis Blatchley, 1916
• Brachiacantha gorhami (Weise, 1904)
• Brachiacantha guatemalensis (Gorham, 1894)
• Brachiacantha hexaspina González, Větrovec and Nestor-Arriola, 2021
• Brachiacantha illustris Casey, 1899
• Brachiacantha indubitabilis Crotch, 1873
• Brachiacantha invertita Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
• Brachiacantha isthmena Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
• Brachiacantha lepida Mulsant, 1850
• Brachiacantha mimica Nestor-Arriola and Toledo-Hernández, 2021
• Brachiacantha nubes Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
• Brachiacantha papiliona Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
• Brachiacantha quadrillum LeConte, 1858
• Brachiacantha quadripunctata Melsheimer, 1847
• Brachiacantha querceti Schwarz, 1878 (oak lady beetle)
• Brachiacantha rotunda (Fabricius, 1775)
• Brachiacantha schwarzi Gordon, 1985
• Brachiacantha soltaui Gordon, 1985
• Brachiacantha stephani Gordon, 1985 (Stephan's lady beetle)
• Brachiacantha subfasciata Mulsant, 1850
• Brachiacantha tau LeConte, 1859 (t-marked lady beetle)
• Brachiacantha testudo Casey, 1899 (turtle lady)
• Brachiacantha tica Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
• Brachiacantha ursina (Fabricius, 1787) (ursine spurleg lady beetle)
• Brachiacantha uteella Casey, 1908

References

1. "Brachiacantha Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
2. "Brachiacantha Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
3. Nestor-Arriola, Jorge Ismael; Toledo-Hernández, Víctor Hugo; Solís, Ángel; González, Guillermo; Větrovec, Jaroslav (16 March 2021). "The Brachiacantha Dejean, 1837 (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) of Central America". ZooKeys (1024): 157–196. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1024.56927. PMC 7990858. PMID 33786006.

• "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico", Robert D. Gordon. 1985. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 93, No. 1.
• Belicek, Joseph (1976). "Coccinellidae of western Canada and Alaska with analyses of the transmontane zoogeographic relationships between the fauna of British Columbia and Alberta (Insecta: Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)". Quaestiones Entomologicae, vol. 12, no. 4, 283–409.
• Canepari, Claudio (1990). "Who is the author of several genera of Coccinellidae: CHEVROLAT or DEJEAN?". Coccinella, vol. 2, no. 1, 38–39.
• Duverger, Christian (2001). "Contribution à la connaissance des Hyperaspidinae (2ème note)". Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Bordeaux, vol. 29, no. 4, 221–228.
• Gordon, Robert D. (1985). "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico". Journal of the New York Entomological Society, vol. 93, no. 1, 1–912.
• Montgomery, H. Wilson Jr., and Michael A. Goodrich (2002). "The Brachiacantha (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of Illinois". Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science, vol. 95, no. 2, 111–130.
• Vandenberg, Natalia J. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 93; Coccinellidae Latreille 1807". American Beetles, vol. 2; Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 371–389.

Further reading

• NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Brachiacantha
• Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.