Stethorus

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Cucujoidea

Familia: Coccinellidae
Subfamilia: Coccinellinae
Tribus: Coccidulini
Genus: Stethorus
Subgenera (3): Allostethorus – Parastethorus – Stethorus
Overview of species

S. aethiops – S. amurensis – S. aptus – S. baiyunshanensis – S. balearicus – S. bifidus – S. binchuangensis – S. cantonensis – S. chengi – S. convexus – S. cruralis – S. darwini – S. dichiapiculus – S. dongchuanensis – S. emarginatus – S. exspectatus – S. exsultabilis – S. fenestralis – S. fijiensis – S. forficatus – S. gilvifrons – S. griseus – S. guangxiensis – S. gutierrezi – S. hirashimai – S. histrio – S. indira – S. japonicus – S. jejunus – S. klapperichi – S. loi – S. longisiphonulus – S. malaicus – S. minutissimus – S. muriculatus – S. nigripes – S. ogloblini – S. parapauperculus – S. parcepunctatus – S. pauperculus – S. peruvianus – S. proximus – S. punctillum – S. pusillus – S. rani – S. salutaris – S. sichuanensis – S. silvestris – S. siphonulus – S. tenerifensis – S. tetranychi – S. truncatus – S. tsutsuii – S. vagans – S. vietnamicus – S. vinsoni – S. wageri – S. wollastoni – S. wulingicus – S. yezoensis – S. yingjiangensis – S. yunnanensis
Name

Stethorus Weise, 1885

Synonyms

Nephopullus Brèthes, 1924
Authority for current placement: Kapur, 1948: 300 ('syn. nov.')

References

Template:Weise, 1885

Chazeau, J. 1979: Mise au point sur le genre Stethorus en Océanie et description de deux espèces nouvelles de Mélanésie (Col., Coccinellidae). Entomophaga, 24(3): 295–303. DOI: 10.1007/BF02374244 [In French, with English summary] Reference page.
Chazeau, J. 1983: Deux prédateurs de Tetranychidae en Nouvelle-Guinee: Stethorus exspectatus n. sp. et Stethorus exsultabilis n. sp. (Col.: Coccinellidae). Entomophaga, 28(4): 373–378. [in French, with English summary] DOI: 10.1007/BF02372191
Gordon, R.D.; Anderson, D.M. 1979: The genus Stethorus Weise (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Chile. Coleopterists bulletin, 33(1): 61–67. JSTOR
Gordon, R.D.; Chapin, E.A. 1983: A revision of the New World species of Stethorus Weise (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 109(3): 229–276. JSTOR
Houston, K.J. 1990: The New Zealand species of Stethorus Weise (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). New Zealand journal of zoology, 17: 271–278. Google books BUGZ
Kapur, A.P. 1948: On the Old World species of the genus Stethorus Weise (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae). Bulletin of entomological research 39(2): 297–320. DOI: 10.1017/S0007485300022434 Reference page.
Leschen, R.A.B.; Lawrence, J.F.; Kuschel, G.; Thorpe, S.; Wang, Q. 2003: Coleoptera genera of New Zealand. New Zealand entomologist, 26: 15–28.
Poorani, J. 2017. Stethorus spp. (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) predatory on Schizotetranychus hindustanicus (Hirst) (Acari: Tetranychidae) from South India, including a new species and a new synonymy in Indian Stethorus. Zootaxa 4277(4): 591–599. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4277.4.9. Reference page.
Ren, S.; Pang, X. 1996: The genus Stethorus Weise (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) of China. Elytra, Tokyo, 24: 317–329. [not seen]
Yu, G. 1996: A list on Stethorus Weise (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from China with description of a new species. Entomotaxonomia, 18(1): 32–36.

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Tribe STETHORINI (Coccinellidae) - atlas of ladybirds of Russia

Stethorus is a genus of spider mite destroyers in the beetle family Coccinellidae. There are more than 40 described species in Stethorus.[1][2][3]
Stethorus punctillum

Species

These 49 species belong to the genus Stethorus:

Stethorus aptus Kapur, 1948
Stethorus atomus Casey
Stethorus balearicus Fursch, 1987
Stethorus bifidus Kapur, 1948
Stethorus brasilensis Gordon & Chapin, 1983
Stethorus brevis Casey
Stethorus caribus Gordon & Chapin, 1983
Stethorus caseyi Gordon & Chapin, 1983
Stethorus chengi Sasaji, 1968
Stethorus comoriensis Chazeau, 1971
Stethorus emarginatus Miyatake, 1966
Stethorus fijiensis Kapur, 1948
Stethorus fractus Gordon & Chapin, 1983
Stethorus gilvifrons (Mulsant, 1850)
Stethorus griseus , 1979
Stethorus grossepunctatus Gordon & Chapin, 1983
Stethorus gutierrezi Chazeau, 1979
Stethorus hirashimai Sasaji, 1967
Stethorus japonicus H.Kamiya, 1959
Stethorus jejunus Casey
Stethorus klapperichi Yu, 1995
Stethorus loi Sasaji, 1968
Stethorus mayaroi Gordon & Chapin, 1983
Stethorus micellus Gordon & Chapin, 1983
Stethorus minutalus Gordon & Chapin, 1983
Stethorus muriculatus Yu, 1995
Stethorus murilloi Gordon
Stethorus nigripes Kapur, 1948
Stethorus parcepunctatus Kapur, 1948
Stethorus pinachi Gordon & Chapin, 1983
Stethorus proximus Chazeau, 1979
Stethorus pseudocaribus Gordon & Chapin, 1983
Stethorus punctillum (Weise, 1891) (lesser mite destroyer)
Stethorus punctum (LeConte, 1852) (spider mite destroyer)
Stethorus pusillus (Herbst, 1797)
Stethorus rani Kapur, 1948
Stethorus salutaris Kapur, 1948
Stethorus simillimus Gordon & Chapin, 1983
Stethorus siphonulus Kapur, 1948
Stethorus sylvestris Chazeau, 1995
Stethorus tenerifensis Fürsch, 1987
Stethorus tetranychi Kapur, 1948
Stethorus tridens Gordon
Stethorus truncatus Kapur, 1948
Stethorus utilis (Horn, 1895)
Stethorus vagans (Blackburn, 1892)
Stethorus vinsoni Kapur, 1948
Stethorus wollastoni Kapur, 1948
Stethorus yezoensis Miyatake, 1966

References

"Stethorus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
"Stethorus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

"Stethorus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.