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Species Diomus liebecki

Diomus liebecki (Horn) - Diomus liebecki
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
Tribe Diomini
Genus Diomus
Species liebecki (Diomus liebecki)
Other Common Names
"Liebeck's Lady"
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Diomus liebecki (Horn)
Orig. Comb: Scymnus liebecki Horn, 1895
Explanation of Names
Charles Liebeck (1863-1947), was a coleopterist in Philadelphia who amassed a collection of over 100,000 N. Amer. beetles which he donated to Henry C. Fall. (1)
Numbers
18 spp. n. of Mex (2)
Identification
Gordon's figures (3)
Range
scattered e. N. Amer. records, but apparently absent from se US (OK-NC-NJ-MB) - Map (3)(BG data)
Print References
Horn, G.H. 1895. Studies in Coccinellidae. Transactions of the American Entomol. Soc. 22: 81-114.
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
2.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.
3.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 7 January, 2013 - 5:56pm
Last updated 21 October, 2014 - 5:32pm

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