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Pseudoazya Gordon 1980

Description

Pseudoazya Gordon, 1980

Pseudoazya Gordon, 1980: 192.

Type species: Azya trinitatis Marshall, 1912; by subsequent designation of Gordon (1980).

Distribution by States in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Paraíba; Pernambuco; Bahia; Alagoas; Sergipe.

Species from the Northeast Region of Brazil. Pseudoazya massayo Duarte-de-Mélo & Almeida, 2024; Pseudoazya mirabilis Duarte-de-Mélo & Almeida, 2024; Pseudoazya nana (Marshall, 1912).

Comments. Four of the eight species of Pseudoazya occur in Brasil, and only P. gnoma was not documented for Northeast Brazil (Gordon 1980; Duarte-de-Mélo et al. 2024).

Notes

Published as part of Duarte-De-Mélo, Jefferson, Almeida, Lúcia Massutti De & Lima, Iracilda Maria De Moura, 2025, A diversity panorama of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from Northeastern Brazil, pp. 451-495 in Zootaxa 5728 (3) on page 455, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5728.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/17894971

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gordon
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Coccinellidae
Genus
Pseudoazya
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Pseudoazya Gordon, 1980 sec. Duarte-De-Mélo, Almeida & Lima, 2025

References

  • Gordon, R. D. (1980) The tribe Azyini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae): historical review and taxonomic revision. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 106 (2), 149-203.
  • Marshall, G. A. K. (1912) Three new species of neotropical Coccinellidae. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 10 (57), 320-322. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222931208693241
  • Duarte-de-Melo, J., Basilio, D. S., Lima, I. M. M. & Almeida, L. M. (2024) New species and identification key to species of Pseudoazya Gordon (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Azyini). Zoologia, 41, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-4689.v41.e23058