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Scymnus (Pullus) syriacus

Description

Scymnus (Pullus) syriacus (Marseul, 1868)

(Fig. 11Q, Fig. 16)

Materials: Nu’eima 1 (PMNH # E12747, 1, 5 March 2018). Ein AlBeida 1 (PMNH # E12748, 1, 8 March 2018). Ein Samiya (PMNH # E12749, 1, 4 March 2018). An-Nabi Musa (PMNH # E12750, 2, 16 April 2018). Ein Fasa’ll (PMNH # E12751, 3, 16 April 2018). Jericho 2 (PMNH # E12752, 1, 23 April 2018). Deir Krntl 1 (PMNH # E12753, 1, 23 April 2018). Jericho 1 (PMNH # E12754, 2, 23 April 2018).

Remarks: Scymnus syriacus is an aphidophagous species feeding on a wide range of aphids on different vegetables, fruits and wild plants (Khalil 2006). It is a common species in our region (Halperin et al. 1995). Most of our samples were collected from the Sudanian penetration zone on Atriplex, cane, citrus, Prosopis and jujube plants.

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 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4664.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3383454

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
PMNH
Material sample ID
1 , 2 , 3
Event date
2018-03-04 , 2018-03-08 , 2018-04-16 , 2018-04-23
Verbatim event date
2018-03-04 , 2018-03-08 , 2018-04-16 , 2018-04-23
Scientific name authorship
Marseul
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Coccinellidae
Genus
Scymnus
Species
syriacus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Scymnus (Pullus) syriacus (Marseul, 1868) sec. Najajrah, Swaileh & Qumsiyeh, 2019

References

  • Marseul, A. de (1868) Materiaux pour l'etude des curculionides; par A. Gerstaeker [sic] (Stet. 1855.167). - L'Abeille. Memoires d'Entomologie, 5, 261 - 270.
  • Khalil, N. (2006) Contribution to a Taxonomic and Environmental Study of the Coccinellidae in Southern Syria (PhD thesis). Damascus University, 307 pp. [Unpublished Data]
  • Halperin, J., Merkl, O. & Kehat, M. (1995) An annotated list of the Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of Israel and adjacent areas. Phytoparasitica, 23 (2), 127 - 137. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 0298097 2