Arawana

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Coccinelloidea

Familia: Coccinellidae
Subfamilia: Coccinellinae
Tribus: Chilocorini
Genus: Arawana
Species: A. arizonica – A. cubensis – A. scapularis
Name

Arawana Leng, 1908: 39

Type species: Exochomus arizonicus Casey, 1899 by original designation

References
Primary references

Leng, C.W. 1908. Notes on Coccinellidae III. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 16: 33-44. BHL Reference page.
Gordon, R.D., 1994. Arawana scapularis (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) in the United States and new locality records for species of Arawana. Entomological News, 105(3): 133-136. Internet Archive Reference page.

Arawana is a genus of ladybirds in the tribe Chilocorini, which is in the subfamily Chilocorinae. There are at least two described species in Arawana.[1][2][3][4]
Species

These two species belong to the genus Arawana.[2][3][4]

Arawana arizonica (Casey, 1899)
Arawana scapularis

References

"Arawana Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
"Arawana Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
"Arawana Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-04.

"Browse Arawana". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-03-04.

Further reading

Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
Casey, Thomas L. (1908). "Notes on the Coccinellidae". The Canadian Entomologist. 40 (11): 393–421.
Gordon, Robert D. (1985). "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 93 (1): 1–912. ISSN 0028-7199.
Gordon, Robert; Vandenberg, Natalia (1991). "Field guide to recently introduced species of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) in North America". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.
LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
Vandenberg, Natalia J. (2002). Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, M.C.; Skelley, P.E.; Frank, J.H. (eds.). Family 93; Coccinellidae Latreille 1807. American Beetles. Vol. 2, Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 371–389. ISBN 0-8493-0954-9.
White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.