Hyperaspis polita Weise, 1855

Ansi, Amin Al, Alkhalaf, Areej A., Fadl, Hassan, Rasool, Iftekhar & Dhafer, Hathal Al, 2020, An annotated checklist of Coccinellidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) with eight new records from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, ZooKeys 1006, pp. 35-89 : 35

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1006.59123

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4DD58069-8DFE-4444-8DBA-652DF0D671B8

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C32CA13C-9B03-5FB4-AE20-43792F0FB580

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scientific name

Hyperaspis polita Weise, 1855
status

 

Hyperaspis polita Weise, 1855

Hyperaspis polita Weise, 1855: 60.

Remark.

This species is a predator of the mealybug Nipaecoccus viridis (Newstead, 1894) ( Alizadeh et al. 2013).

Materials examined.

Riyadh, 2.II.1980, Talhouk et al., ANMA, 1♀.

Local distribution.

It was collected from Riyadh and previously listed in the taxonomic key by Fürsch (1979).

World distribution.

Asia: AF, CY, PAL, SY, TD, TM, and TR; North Africa: LB; AFR ( Kovář 2007), SA ( Fürsch 1979).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Coccinellidae

Genus

Hyperaspis

Loc

Hyperaspis polita Weise, 1855

Ansi, Amin Al, Alkhalaf, Areej A., Fadl, Hassan, Rasool, Iftekhar & Dhafer, Hathal Al 2020
2020
Loc

Hyperaspis polita

Weise 1855
1855