Genus Coelophora Mulsant, 1850

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• Coelophora Mulsant, M.E. 1850. Species des Coléoptères Trimères Sécuripalpes. Annales des Sciencies Physiques et Naturelles, d'Agriculture et d'Industrie, publiées par la Société nationale d'Agriculture, etc., de Lyon, Deuxième Série, 2: xv + 1-1104 pp (part 1 pp. 1-450; part 2 pp. 451-1104). [390].

  Type species:

   Coccinella inaequalis Fabricius, 1775 by subsequent designation, see Crotch, G.R. 1874. A Revision of the Coleopterous Family Coccinellidae. London : E.W. Janson xv + 311 pp. [148].
• Lemnia Mulsant, M.E. 1850. Species des Coléoptères Trimères Sécuripalpes. Annales des Sciencies Physiques et Naturelles, d'Agriculture et d'Industrie, publiées par la Société nationale d'Agriculture, etc., de Lyon, Deuxième Série, 2: xv + 1-1104 pp (part 1 pp. 1-450; part 2 pp. 451-1104). [376].

  Type species:

   Lemnia fraudulenta Mulsant, 1850 by subsequent designation, see Korschefsky, R. 1932. Pars 120: Coccinellidae. II. pp. 225-659 in Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Berlin : W. Junk. [290].
• Spilocaria Timberlake, P.H. 1943. The Coccinellidae or ladybeetles of the Koebele collection — part I. Hawiian Planters' Record, Honolulu, Hawaii 47(1): 7-67 [58].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Crotch, G.R. 1874. A Revision of the Coleopterous Family Coccinellidae. London : E.W. Janson xv + 311 pp. [148] (for Lemnia Mulsant and Microcaria Crotch)
• Iablokoff-Khnzorian, S.M. 1982. Les coccinelles. Coleoptères-Coccinellidae. Paris : Société nouvelle des editions Boubée 568 pp. [218] (for Spilocaria Timberlake, 1943)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, 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. [35-36] (diagnosis and key to Austalo-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. [158] (diagnosis, distribution)

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