Scymnodes

Life-forms

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: Ortaliini
Genus: Scymnodes
Name

Scymnodes Blackburn, 1889
Synonyms

Dolinus Weise, 1923

Type species

Scymnodes difficilis Blackburn, 1889, by monotypy

References

Blackburn, T. 1889: Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 11: 175–214. PDF
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.; Ślipiński, A. 2009: A revision of the genera Scymnodes Blackburn and Apolinus Pope et Lawrence (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Annales zoologici, 59: 549–584. ISSN: 0003-4541 DOI: 10.3161/000345409X484946
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. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1990.tb00315.x
Slipinski, A. 2007: Australian ladybird beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Their biology and classification. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. ISBN 9780642568557