Apolinus lividigaster Mulsant
Description
Apolinus lividigaster (Mulsant)
Platyomus lividigaster Mulsant, 1853: 286.
Scymnodes (Apolinus) lividigaster: Pope & Lawrence 1990: 244. Apolinus lividigaster: Slipinski 2007: 99.
This species was originally described from Australia; it is also recorded from New Zealand and Hawaii. In New Caledonia, it was not recorded by Bielawski (1972) in his review of New Caledonian Scymnini. It has only been collected in Nouméa and Yaté regions (southern Grande Terre). It is predominantly aphidiphagous, but is also able to use pollen when preys are scarce (Lundgren 2009). Based on this information, we consider it to be a recent arrival because of the lack of autochthonous aphids, whether by natural spread or accidental introduction.
Material examined. NEW CALEDONIA: Nouméa, Anse Vata, ix.1976 (A. Delobel rec.) (ONNC); Nouméa, Ouen Toro, 24.vi.1978 (A. Delobel rec.) (ONNC); St Gabriel (Yaté), 0-200m, xi.1986 (N.L.H. Krauss rec.)
(ONNC); Farino, "Tendéa", 21.61928°S / 165.70907°E / 403m, 29.iv.2004 (S. Cazères rec.) (CXMNC); Ouvéa, Hynthot, 30.vi.2008 (C. Mille rec.) (CXMNC); Thio, tribu de Koua, COL /ins/ 28-14, 18.iii.2013 (R-M. M'Boueri rec.) (CXMNC); Ouvéa, COL /ins/87-14, 14.iii.2014 (C. Mille rec.) (CXMNC); Bourail, Gouaro, 21.58113°S / 165.42045°E / 68m, ii.2001 (S. Cazères rec.) (CXMNC); Thio, Dothio, 21°35.305'S / 165°09.084'E / 18m, 04.v.2006 (S. Cazères rec.) (CXMNC); Nouméa, 15.xii.1981 (R. Catala rec.) (MNHN).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Genus
- Apolinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Mulsant
- Species
- lividigaster
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Mulsant, E. (1853) Supplement a la monographie des Coleopteres Trimeres Securipalpes. Annales de la Societe linneenne de Lyon, 1, 129 - 333.
- Pope, R. D. & Lawrence, J. F. (1990) A review of Scymnodes Blackburn, with the description of a new Australian species and its larva (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Systematic Entomology, 15, 241 - 252.
- Slipinski, A. (2007) Australian Ladybird Beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae): Their Biology and Classification. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, xviii + 286 pp.
- Bielawski, R. (1972) The Epilachninae (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) of New Caledonia. Bulletin de l'Academie polonaise des sciences. Serie des sciences biologiques, 20, 557 - 561.
- Lundgren, J. G. (2009) Nutritional aspects of non-prey foods in the life histories of predaceous Coccinellidae. Biological Control, 51, 294 - 305.