Hippodamia variegata (Goeze, 1777)

Ali, Muhammad, Ahmed, Khalil, Ali, Shaukat, Raza, Ghulam, Hussain, Ishtiaq, Nafees, Maisoor Ahmed & Anjum, Syed Ishtiaq, 2018, An annotated checklist of Coccinellidae with four new records from Pakistan (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae), ZooKeys 803, pp. 93-120 : 93

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.803.22543

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:44ED6C38-469D-4789-87E6-4216294D08A4

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/80BD7592-6A10-C983-142F-70E2E5B7E353

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scientific name

Hippodamia variegata (Goeze, 1777)
status

 

Hippodamia variegata (Goeze, 1777) Fig. 5

General distribution.

Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tibet, Mongolia, China, northern and eastern Africa, Palaearctic (Poorani 2002).

Distribution in Sindh.

Hyderabad, Karachi, and Thatta (Lohar et al. 2012, Ali 2013).

Host plants and prey species in Sindh.

Brevicoryne brassicae (L.), Lipaphis erysimi (Kaltenbach), Myzus persicae (Sulzer), Aphis gossypii (Glover), Hyadaphis coriandri (Das), Hysteroneura setariae (Thomas), Schizaphis graminum (Rondani) ( Aphididae : Homoptera); Phenacoccus solenopsis (Tinsley), Ferrisia virigata (Ckll) ( Pseudococcidae : Homoptera); Amrasca devastans (Dist), Amrasca biguttula biguttula (Ishida) ( Cicadellidae : Homoptera); Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) ( Aleyrodidae : Homoptera) on mustard, lucern, cabbage, cauliflower, potato, turnip, bottle gourd, brinjal, okra, wheat, cotton, and rose plants (Ali 2013).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Coccinellidae

Genus

Hippodamia