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Stethorus Weise 1885

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Thogamalai Road, Thayanur Post, Tiruchirappalli 620102, Tamil Nadu, India.

Description

Genus Stethorus Weise, 1885

Scymnus (Stethorus) Weise, 1885: 65.

Stethorus Weise, 1899: 64.– Kapur, 1948: 297. Type species: Coccinella? minima Rossi, 1794: 89 (= Stethorus punctillum (Weise, 1891)), by subsequent designation of Korschefsky, 1931.

Nephopullus Brèthes, 1925: 167.–Synonymized by Kapur, 1948: 300. Type species: Nephopullus darwini Brèthes, by subsequent designation of Korschefsky, 1931.

Stethorus (Allostethorus) Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1972: 120. Type species: Stethorus (Allostethorus) amurensis Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1972, by original designation.

Diagnosis. Externally similar to Parastethorus and differs mainly by the complete abdominal postcoxal lines and the male genitalia. There are two subgenera in Stethorus. The subgenus Allostethorus can be distinguished from the subgenus Stethorus by the short penis, stout penis guide, and tegminal strut longer than penis guide. The subgenus Stethorus is characterized by a slender penis, somewhat elongate penis guide with the tegminal strut shorter than penis guide.

Notes

Published as part of Poorani, J., Anuradha, C. & Thanigairaj, R., 2025, An illustrated account of Stethorini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) predatory on mite pests of banana in India, including description of a new species, pp. 34-66 in Zootaxa 5737 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5737.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/18021298

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/038E87CDFFE6FFEFFF7AD5D7FEA3F956

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5737.1.2 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/18021298 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFB7FFB5FFECFFE5FFEDD142FFBCFFD4 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/7F80E6FA-DF73-483B-A947-EC8828D1BF4D (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/038E87CDFFE6FFEFFF7AD5D7FEA3F956 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/311949643 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/313818/taxon/038E87CDFFE6FFEFFF7AD5D7FEA3F956.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Weise
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Coccinellidae
Genus
Stethorus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Stethorus Weise, 1885 sec. Poorani, Anuradha & Thanigairaj, 2025

References

  • Weise, J. (1885) Bestimmungs-tabellen der Europaischen Coleopteren. II. Heft. Coccinellidae. II. Auflage Mit Berucksichtigung der Arten aus dem noordlichen Asien, Modling, 83 pp.
  • Weise, J. (1899) Coccinelliden aus Deutsch-Ostafrika. Archivfur Naturgeschichte, 65, 49-70. https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnd.48018990208
  • Kapur, A. P. (1948) On the Old World species of the genus Stethorus Weise (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 39 (2), 297-320. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007485300022434
  • Rossi, P. (1794) Mantissa insectorum, exhibens species nuper in Etruria collectas, adiectis faunae etruscae illustrationibus, ac emendationibus, Tom. II. Ex Typographia Prosperi, Pisis, 154 pp.
  • Weise, J. (1891) Neue Coccinelliden. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1891, 282-288. https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnd.48018910212
  • Korschefsky, R. (1931) Coleopterorum Catalogus. Pars 118. Coccinellidae I. W. Junk, Berlin, 224 pp.
  • Brethes, J. (1925) Sur une collection de Coccinellides (et un Phalacridae) du British Museum. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires, 33, 145-175.
  • Iablokoff-Khnzorian, S. M. (1972) New species of Coccinellidae from USSR (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae). Doklady Akademii Nauk Armyanskoy SSR, 55 (2), 116-122.