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Harmonia quadripunctata
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Description
Harmonia quadripunctata (Pontoppidan, 1763)
(Fig. 2F)
Material: Wadi Fukin 1 (PMNH # E12464, 1, 21 March 2018). Bethlehem 1 (PMNH # E12463, 1, 20 June 2018).
Remarks: Harmonia quadripunctata is native to the Palaearctic region (Vandenberg 1990), and was mostly found feeding on aphids of pine and cypress trees (Khalil 2006). Coccinellids are exotherms, depending on external temperature to determine population dynamics (Hodek et al. 2015); for example, climate change reduced the quantity and duration of oviposition of H. quadripunctata (Belyakova et al. 2016). Populations of this species may be reduced in the future or currently because of climate change. It was found in two areas in the Mediterranean zone.
Notes
Published as part of Najajrah, Mohammad H., Swaileh, Khalid M. & Qumsiyeh, Mazin B., 2019, Systematic list, geographic distribution and ecological significance of lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from the West Bank (Central Palestine), pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 4664 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4664.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3383454
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Pontoppidan
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Genus
- Harmonia
- Species
- quadripunctata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Harmonia quadripunctata (Pontoppidan, 1763) sec. Najajrah, Swaileh & Qumsiyeh, 2019
References
- Pontoppidan, E. (1763) Den Danske Atlas. Kjoebenhavn, 1, 232 pp.
- Vandenberg, N. J. (1990) First North American records for Harmonia quadripunctata (Pontopiddian) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae); a lady beetle native to the Palaearctic. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 92 (3), 407 - 410.
- Khalil, N. (2006) Contribution to a Taxonomic and Environmental Study of the Coccinellidae in Southern Syria (PhD thesis). Damascus University, 307 pp. [Unpublished Data]
- Hodek, I., van Emden, F. & Honek, A. (2015) Ecology and Behaviour of the Ladybird Beetles (Coccinellidae) Edited book. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 561 pp.
- Belyakova, A., Pazyuk, M., Ovchinnikov, N. & Reznik, Y. (2016) The influence of temperature, photoperiod, and diet on development and reproduction in the four-spot lady beetle Harmonia quadripunctata (Pontoppidan) (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae). Entomological Review, 96 (1), 1 - 11. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / S 0013873816010012