Genus Selvadius - Amber Lady Beetles

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Food · Works Cited

Selvadius nunenmacheri Gordon - Selvadius nunenmacheri

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Coccinelloidea

No Taxon (Coccinellid group)

Family Coccinellidae (Lady Beetles)

Subfamily Scymninae

Genus Selvadius (Amber Lady Beetles)

Explanation of Names

Selvadius Casey 1899

Numbers

4 spp. in our area(1)

Size

<2.5 mm(2)

Range

sw.US (CA to WY‒w.TX) [map](2)

Habitat

grassland communities(2)

Food

unknown; possibly scale insects(1)

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

2.	The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico Robert D. Gordon. 1985. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 93, No. 1.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 4 November, 2010 - 6:09am
Additional contributions by v belov, James Bailey
Last updated 7 March, 2024 - 5:52pm

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