Species Micraspis furcifera (Guérin-Méneville, 1835)

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• Coccinella furcifera Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1835. Iconographie du Régne Animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentations d'apres de l'une espèces les plus remarquables, et souvent non encore figurées, de chaque genre d'animaux. Avec un texte descriptif mis au courant de la science. Ouvrage pouvant servir d'atlas a tous les traités de zoologie. Vol. 2, Insectes (Plates 1829-37, text 1844). Paris : J.B. Balliere, Libraire de l'Académie Royale de Médicine. 576 pp. [pl. 51, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Lectotype UMZC, Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Gordon, R.D. 1987. A catalogue of the Crotch Collection of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 3: 1-46 [22].
• Sospita flavolineata Mulsant, M.E. 1866. Monographie des Coccinellides. Paris : Savy et Deyrolle 292 pp. [113].

  Type data:

   Lectotype UMZC, Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Gordon, R.D. 1987. A catalogue of the Crotch Collection of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 3: 1-46 [22].
• Verania gauthardi Mulsant, M.E. 1866. Monographie des Coccinellides. Paris : Savy et Deyrolle 292 pp. [241].

  Type data:

   Lectotype UMZC, South Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Gordon, R.D. 1987. A catalogue of the Crotch Collection of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 3: 1-46 [22].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Crotch, G.R. 1871. List of Coccinellidae. Cambridge : Printed by the author 8 pp. [8] (for Sospita flavolineata Mulsant and Verania gauthardi Mulsant)

Generic Combinations

• Cisseis furcifera (Guérin-Méneville, 1835) [changed combination cited: Mulsant 1850]. —
  Mulsant, E. 1850. Species des Coléoptères trimères sécuripalpes. Annales de la Société d'Agriculture de Lyon 2 2: 1-1104 [Première partie, xv 1-554; Deuxième partie, 555-1104; Annales de la Société nationale d'agriculture, d'histoire naturelle et des arts utiles de Lyon)]
• Micraspis furcifera (Guérin-Méneville, 1835). —
  Iablokoff-Khnzorian, S.M. 1979. Genera der paläarktischen Coccinellini (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae). Entomologische Blätter für Biologie und Systematik der Käfer 75: 37-75 [73]
• Alesia furcifera (Guérin-Méneville, 1835) [changed combination cited: Masters 1888]. —
  Masters, G. 1888. Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of Australia. Part VII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 2(1887): 13-94
• Cissella furcifera (Guérin-Méneville, 1835) [changed combination cited: Timberlake 1943]. —
  Timberlake, P.H. 1943. The Coccinellidae or ladybeetles of the Koebele collection — part I. Hawiian Planters' Record, Honolulu, Hawaii 47(1): 7-67
• Menevillidia furcifera (Guérin-Méneville, 1835) [changed combination cited: Brèthes 1923].
• Verania furcifera (Guérin-Méneville, 1835) [changed combination cited: Gordon 1987]. —
  Gordon, R.D. 1987. A catalogue of the Crotch Collection of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 3: 1-46

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

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. [87] (Diagnosis and description)

General 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] [675] (as Micraspis furcifera Guérin-Méneville)

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