Scymninae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There are at least 170 described species in Scymninae.
Genera
- Acarinus <small>Kapur, 1948</small>
- Acoccidula <small>Barowskij, 1931</small>
- Andrzej <small>Slipinski, 2007</small>
- Aponephus <small>Booth, 1991</small>
- Apseudoscymnus <small>Hoang, 1984</small>
- Aspidimerus <small>Mulsant, 1850</small>
- Axinoscymnus <small>Kamiya, 1963</small>
- Blaisdelliana <small>Gordon, 1970</small>
- Brachiacantha <small>Chevrolat in Dejean, 1837</small> (spurleg lady beetles)
- Calloeneis <small>Grote, 1873</small>
- Clitostethus <small>Weise, 1885 (=Nephaspis)</small>
- Crypticolus <small>Strohecker, 1953</small>
- Cryptognatha <small>Mulsant, 1850</small>
- Cryptogonus <small>Mulsant, 1850</small>
- Curticornis <small>Gordon, 1971</small>
- Cyra <small>Mulsant, 1850</small>
- Cyrema <small>Blackburn, 1889</small>
- Decadiomus <small>Chapin, 1933</small>
- Diazonema <small>Weise, 1926</small>
- Dichaina <small>Weise, 1926</small>
- Didion <small>Casey, 1899</small>
- Diomus <small>Mulsant, 1850</small>
- Erratodiomus <small>Gordon, 1999</small>
- Helesius <small>Casey, 1899</small>
- Heterodiomus <small>Brèthes, 1924</small>
- Hinda <small>Mulsant, 1850</small>
- Horniolus <small>Weise, 1901</small>
- Hyperaspidius <small>Crotch, 1873</small>
- Hyperaspis <small>Chevrolat in Dejean, 1837</small>
- Keiscymnus <small>Sasaji, 1971</small>
- Leptoscymnus <small>Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1978</small>
- Magnodiomus <small>Gordon, 1999</small>
- Midus <small>Mulsant, 1850</small>
- Mimoscymnus <small>Gordon, 1994</small>
- Moiradiomus <small>Vandenberg & Hanson, 2019</small>
- Nephus <small>Mulsant, 1846</small>
- Parasidis <small>Brèthes, 1924</small>
- Pentilia <small>Mulsant, 1850</small>
- Planorbata <small>Gordon, 1994</small>
- Platynaspis <small>Redtenbacher, 1843</small>
- Propiptus <small>Weise, 1901</small>
- Pseudaspidimerus <small>Kapur, 1948</small>
- Pullosidis <small>Fürsch, 1987</small>
- Sasajiscymnus <small>Vandenberg, 2004</small>
- Scymniscus <small>Dobzhanskiy, 1928</small>
- Scymnobius <small>Casey, 1899</small>
- Scymnus <small>Kugelann, 1794</small>
- Selvadius <small>Casey, 1899</small> (amber lady beetles)
- Stethorus <small>Weise, 1885</small> (spider mite destroyers)
- Thalassa <small>Mulsant, 1850</small>
- Tiphysa <small>Mulsant, 1850</small>
- Veronicobius <small>Broun, 1893</small>
- Viridigloba <small>Gordon, 1978</small>
- Zagloba <small>Casey, 1899</small> (scalehunter lady beetles)
- Zilus <small>Mulsant, 1850</small> (velvethead lady beetles)
References
- "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico", Robert D. Gordon. 1985. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 93, No. 1.
- Gordon, Robert D. (1985). "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico". Journal of the New York Entomological Society, vol. 93, no. 1, 1âÂÂ912.
- Kuznetsov, Victor N. (1997). "Lady Beetles of the Russian Far East". Center for Systematic Entomology, Memoir No. 1, xii + 248.
- Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds. (1995). "Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)". Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2, 779âÂÂ1006.
- Vandenberg, Natalia J. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 93; Coccinellidae Latreille 1807". American Beetles, vol. 2; Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 371âÂÂ389.
Further reading
- NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Scymninae
- Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida .
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.