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

SubFamily

Coccinellinae

Tribe

Hyperaspidini

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