Coleomegilla Cockerell, 1920

Duarte-De-Mélo, Jefferson, Almeida, Lúcia Massutti De & Lima, Iracilda Maria De Moura, 2025, A diversity panorama of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from Northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 5728 (3), pp. 451-495 : 463

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5728.3.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4E5B44DE-3703-4014-AACC-4D413D727306
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17895172
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scientific name	Coleomegilla Cockerell, 1920
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Coleomegilla Cockerell, 1920 View in CoL

Megilla Mulsant, 1850: 24 ; 1866: 16; LeConte, 1852: 130; Crotch, 1873: 364; 1874: 92; Chapuis, 1876: 169; Gorham, 1891: 151; Wickham, 1894: 300; Casey, 1899: 76; Leng, 1903: 38; Blatchley, 1910: 510; Korschefsky, 1932: 312.

Coleomegilla View in CoL [Cockerell in] Timberlake, 1920a: 139; Timberlake, 1920b: 96; Korschefsky, 1932: 312; Timberlake, 1943: 9; Wingo, 1952: 23; Brown & de Ruette, 1962: 646; Chapin, 1974: 57; Gordon, 1985: 696; 1987: 10–11.

Type species: Coccinella maculata De Geer, 1775 ; by original designation.

Distribution by States in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Ceará; Rio Grande do Norte; Pernambuco; Bahia; Alagoas; Sergipe.

Species from the Northeast Region of Brazil. Coleomegilla maculata ( De Geer, 1775) .

Comments. The three known species of Coleomegilla occur in Brazil ( González 2014b). Only C. maculata occurs in NE Brazil ( Rodrigues et al. 2013).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Coccinellidae