Species Harmonia testudinaria (Mulsant, 1850)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Daulis testudinaria 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). [300].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHNP, Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Pope, R.D. 1989. A revision of the Australian Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Part 1. Subfamily Coccinellinae. Invertebrate Taxonomy 2: 633-735 [Date published 1989: dated 1988] [687].

Generic Combinations

• Harmonia testudinaria (Mulsant, 1850). —
  Timberlake, P.H. 1943. The Coccinellidae or ladybeetles of the Koebele collection — part I. Hawiian Planters' Record, Honolulu, Hawaii 47(1): 7-67 [18]
• Neda testudinaria (Mulsant, 1850) [changed combination cited: Masters 1888].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), 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. [57-58] (diagnosis, redescription and distribution)

History of changes