Brachiacantha

Brachiacantha
	Brachiacantha ursina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Coccinellidae
Tribe:	Brachiacanthini
Genus:	Brachiacantha; Dejean, 1837
Synonyms
	Brachyacantha; Cleothera (Cyra) Mulsant, 1850; Cyra;

Brachiacantha is a genus of lady beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There are at least 25 described species in Brachiacantha.

Species

buckleyi group
- Brachiacantha buckleyi Crotch, 1874
- Brachiacantha charlotte Gordon & Canepari, 2014
dentipes group/bistripustulata group
- Brachiacantha barberi Gordon, 1985 (Barber's lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha bistripustulata (Fabricius, 1801) (decorated lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha dentipes (Fabricius, 1801)
- Brachiacantha erythrura (Mulsant, 1850)
- Brachiacantha robustihamata Nestor-Arriola & Toledo-Hernández, 2017
- Brachiacantha subfasciata Mulsant, 1850
- Brachiacantha truncata Nestor-Arriola & Toledo-Hernández, 2017
sellata group
- Brachiacantha sellata Mulsant, 1850
- Brachiacantha bruchi Weise, 1904
- Brachiacantha esther Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha pauline Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha emma Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha jamie Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha joanne Gordon & Canepari, 2014
juanita group
- Brachiacantha anita Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha aperta Weise, 1903
- Brachiacantha armandi (Mulsant, 1850)
- Brachiacantha bipartita Mulsant, 1850
- Brachiacantha cathy Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha darlene Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha dentata Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
- Brachiacantha hazel Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha juanita Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha lauren Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha loricata (Mulsant, 1850)
- Brachiacantha lynn Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha margaritae (Crotch, 1874)
- Brachiacantha regina Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha octopustulata (Fabricius, 1801)
- Brachiacantha octostigma Mulsant, 1850
- Brachiacantha sally Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha veronica Gordon & Canepari, 2014
jill group
- Brachiacantha jill Gordon & Canepari, 2014
blandula group
- Brachiacantha blandula (Weise, 1902)
- Brachiacantha april Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha clara Gordon & Canepari, 2014
groendali group
- Brachiacantha groendali (Mulsant, 1850)
- Brachiacantha eva Gordon & Canepari, 2014
debbie group
- Brachiacantha debbie Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha monica Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha parva (Mulsant, 1850)
- Brachiacantha amber Gordon & Canepari, 2014
leslie group
- Brachiacantha leslie Gordon & Canepari, 2014
trimaculata group
- Brachiacantha trimaculata Leng, 1911
tucumanensis group
- Brachiacantha aurantiapleura Nestor-Arriola, Solís and Toledo-Hernández, 2021
- Brachiacantha eleanor Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha isthmena Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
- Brachiacantha tucumanensis Weise, 1911
- Brachiacantha valerie Gordon & Canepari, 2014
bahiensis group
- Brachiacantha bahiensis Brèthes, 1925
- Brachiacantha pseudoarrowi Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha danielle Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha gail Gordon & Canepari, 2014
lepida group
- Brachiacantha fenestrata Gorham, 1894
- Brachiacantha indubitabilis Crotch, 1873
- Brachiacantha lepida Mulsant, 1850
- Brachiacantha nubes Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
ursina group
- Brachiacantha guatemalensis (Gorham, 1894)
- Brachiacantha ursina (Fabricius, 1787) (ursine spurleg lady beetle)
invertita group
- Brachiacantha invertita Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
cachensis group
- Brachiacantha cachensis Gorham, 1894
- Brachiacantha gorhami (Weise, 1904)
- Brachiacantha hexaspina González, Větrovec and Nestor-Arriola, 2021
- Brachiacantha mimica Nestor-Arriola and Toledo-Hernández, 2021
- Brachiacantha papiliona Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
- Brachiacantha tica Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
group unassigned/unknown
- Brachiacantha appropinquata (Mulsant, 1850)
- Brachiacantha argentinica (Weise, 1922)
- Brachiacantha bilineata Weise, 1902
- Brachiacantha egae (Crotch, 1874)
- Brachiacantha sicardi Leng, 1911
- Brachiacantha steineri Gordon & Canepari, 2014
- Brachiacantha albifrons (Say, 1824) (white-fronted lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha arizonica Schaeffer, 1908 (Arizona lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha blaisdelli Nunenmacher, 1909
- Brachiacantha bollii Crotch, 1873 (Boll's lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha decempustulata (Melsheimer, 1847) (ten-spotted spurleg)
- Brachiacantha felina (Fabricius, 1775)
- Brachiacantha floridensis Blatchley, 1916
- Brachiacantha illustris Casey, 1899
- Brachiacantha quadrillum LeConte, 1858
- Brachiacantha quadripunctata Melsheimer, 1847
- Brachiacantha querceti Schwarz, 1878 (oak lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha rotunda Gordon, 1985
- Brachiacantha schwarzi Gordon, 1985
- Brachiacantha soltaui Gordon, 1985
- Brachiacantha stephani Gordon, 1985 (Stephan's lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha tau LeConte, 1859 (t-marked lady beetle)
- Brachiacantha testudo Casey, 1899 (turtle lady)
- Brachiacantha uteella Casey, 1908
- Brachiacantha angulata Nestor-Arriola & Toledo-Hernández, 2017
- Brachiacantha aymardi Gorham, 1894
- Brachiacantha brevicuspidata Nestor-Arriola & Toledo-Hernández, 2017
- Brachiacantha conjuncta Mulsant, 1850
- Brachiacantha cryptocephalina Gorham, 1894
- Brachiacantha distincta Nunenmacher, 1948
- Brachiacantha mexicana Leng, 1911
- Brachiacantha neglecta Nunenmacher, 1948
- Brachiacantha octosignata Mader, 1958
- Brachiacantha pygidialis Mulsant, 1850
- Brachiacantha westwoodii Mulsant, 1850

Selected former species

Brachiacantha brevihamata Nestor-Arriola & Toledo-Hernández, 2017

References

↑ "Brachiacantha Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
↑ "Brachiacantha Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
↑ Nestor-Arriola, Jorge Ismael; Toledo-Hernández, Víctor Hugo; Solís, Ángel; González, Guillermo; Větrovec, Jaroslav (16 March 2021). "The Brachiacantha Dejean, 1837 (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) of Central America". ZooKeys (1024): 157–196. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1024.56927. PMC 7990858. PMID 33786006.

"The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico", Robert D. Gordon. 1985. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 93, No. 1.
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Canepari, Claudio (1990). "Who is the author of several genera of Coccinellidae: CHEVROLAT or DEJEAN?". Coccinella, vol. 2, no. 1, 38–39.
Duverger, Christian (2001). "Contribution à la connaissance des Hyperaspidinae (2ème note)". Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Bordeaux, vol. 29, no. 4, 221–228.
Gordon, Robert D. (1985). "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico". Journal of the New York Entomological Society, vol. 93, no. 1, 1–912.
Montgomery, H. Wilson Jr., and Michael A. Goodrich (2002). "The Brachiacantha (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of Illinois". Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science, vol. 95, no. 2, 111–130.
Vandenberg, Natalia J. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 93; Coccinellidae Latreille 1807". American Beetles, vol. 2; Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 371–389.

Brachiacantha

Brachiacantha ursina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Coccinellidae
Tribe:	Brachiacanthini
Genus:	Brachiacantha Dejean, 1837
Synonyms
Brachyacantha Cleothera (Cyra) Mulsant, 1850 Cyra

Brachiacantha

Species

Selected former species

References

Further reading