Species Harmonia octomaculata (Fabricius, 1781)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Coccinella octomaculata Fabricius, J.C. 1781. Species insectorum, exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus. Hamburg et Kilonii : C. E. Bonn Vol. 1 viii + 552 pp. [Date published March 1781: Evenhuis 1997] [97].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, not specified.
• Coccinella arcuata Fabricius, J.C. 1787. Mantissa Insectorum sistens eorum species nuper detectas adiectis characteribus genericus, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 1 xx 348 pp. [55].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, China.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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). [80] (C. octomaculata a variety of H. arcuata)

Generic Combinations

• Harmonia arcuata (Fabricius, 1781) [changed combination cited: Mulsant 1850].
• Harmonia octomaculata (Fabricius, 1781). —
  Bielawski, R. 1957. Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) von Ceylon. Bericht über die Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 68: 72-96 [93]
• Ptychanatis octomaculata (Fabricius, 1781) [changed combination cited: Kamiya 1965].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

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. [54-55] (diagnosis and redescription)

History of changes