Biology:Nephus (Scymnobius) sordidus
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Short description: Species of beetle
| Nephus (Scymnobius) sordidus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Coccinellidae |
| Genus: | Nephus |
| Species: | N. sordidus
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| Binomial name | |
| Nephus sordidus (Horn, 1895)
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Nephus sordidus, known generally as the little brown mealybug destroyer or sordid ladybug, is a species of dusky lady beetle in the family Coccinellidae.[1][2][3][4] It is found in North America.[1]
In California's San Joaquin Valley, N. sordidus is an important predator of mealybugs on grapes, pistachios, and almonds, including vine mealybug, grape mealybug, and Gill's mealybug (Ferrisia gilli).[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Nephus sordidus Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=692350. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ↑ "Nephus sordidus species details". http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/5cdf8328b07f20e0612ab6a6f979cdde. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ↑ "Nephus sordidus". https://www.gbif.org/species/4990165. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ↑ "Nephus sordidus Species Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/99214. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ↑ Carroll, Devin (2013). "Little Brown Mealybug Destroyer". https://sites.google.com/site/devinipminfo/LittleBrownDestroyer.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1.
Further reading
- American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0849309540.
- Casey, Thomas L. (1908). "Notes on the Coccinellidae". The Canadian Entomologist 40 (11): 393–421. https://archive.org/details/cbarchive_120121_notesonthecoccinellidae1868.
- 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. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/85732.
- Vandenberg, Natalia J. (2002). Family 93; Coccinellidae Latreille 1807. American Beetles. 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. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780395910894.
Wikidata ☰ Q14930794 entry
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