Scymnus ambulans Blackburn, 1895

Leeper, John R., 2014, Nomenclatural and Taxonomic Notes on Names of Hawaiian Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 46, pp. 1-7 : 4

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.8159436
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8188136
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D43D7577-0734-FFA3-7A30-B13C7C161DAD
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Scymnus ambulans Blackburn, 1895
status

Treatment

Scymnus ambulans Blackburn, 1895 View in CoL View at ENA .

Justification: Although ITIS lists Scymnus varipes Blackburn (TNS: 187060); Slipinski et al. (2012) recognized Scymnus varipes Blackburn as a new junior synonym of Scymnus ambulans Blackburn.

Names Used in Hawaii: Leeper (1976: 301) treated this species as Scymnus varipes Blackburn. This has been the only name for this species in found in Hawaiian literature. Nishida (2002: 53) listed S. varipes . The UHIM currently lists S. varipes (Blackburn) .

This is the first use of Scymnus ambulans Blackburn in Hawaiian literature.