Genus Coccinella Linnaeus, 1758
Type species:
Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [this work is the subject of Opinions 11 and 136, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature] [432].
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Cosmopolitan.
Ubiquitous throughout Australia.
IBRA
NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)
Other Regions
Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater
Diagnosis References
Ślipiński, A., Li, J. & Pang, H. 2020. Ladybird Beetles of the Australo-Pacific Region (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Coccinellini). Clayton Sth, VIC, Australia : CSIRO Publishing pp.231. [31] (diagnosis and key to Australo-Pacific species)
General References
Ślipiński, A. 2007. Australian Ladybird Beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), Their biology and classification. Canberra, ACT : Australian Biological Resources Study xviii 286 pp. [156] (diagnosis, distribution)
History of changes
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