Brachiacantha

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cucujoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Cucujoidea

Familia: Coccinellidae
Subfamilia: Scymninae
Tribus: Hyperaspidini
Genus: Brachiacantha
Species: B. angulata – B. brevicuspidata – B. brevihamata – B. robustihamata – B. truncata

Name

Brachiacantha Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836: 434

Type species: Coccinella dentipes Fabricius, 1801, by subsequent designation (Crotch, 1873: 377).

Synonyms

Brachyacantha: Chevrolat, 1842: 704 (unjustified emendation)
Cleothera (Cyra) Mulsant, 1850: 544
Cyra: Crotch, 1874: 213 (as synonym of Hyperaspis)
- Type species: Cyra loricata Mulsant, 1850, by subsequent designation (Duverger, 2001).

References

Chevrolat, L.A.A. 1836. [new taxa]. In: Dejean, P.F.M.A. Catalogue des Coléoptères de la collection de M. le comte Dejean. Deuxième édition. [Livraison 5]. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis Père et Fils. pp. 361–443. BHL. Reference page.

Gordon, R.D., Canepari, C. & Hanley, G.A. 2014. South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XVI: systematic revision of Brachiacantha Dejean (Coccinellinae: Hyperaspidini). Insecta mundi (0390): 1–76. Full issue (PDF) Reference page.

Nestor-Arriola, J.I. & Toledo-Hernández, V.H. 2017. New species of Brachiacantha Dejean, 1837 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from Mexico and Central America. Zootaxa 4365(1): 40–52. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4365.1.2 Reference page.

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