Nephus sordidus, known generally as the little brown mealybug destroyer or sordid ladybug, is a species of dusky lady beetle in the family Coccinellidae.[1][2][3][4] It is found in North America.[1]
| Nephus (Scymnobius) sordidus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Coccinellidae |
| Genus: | Nephus |
| Species: | N. sordidus
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| Binomial name | |
| Nephus sordidus (Horn, 1895)
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In California's San Joaquin Valley, N. sordidus is an important predator of mealybugs on grapes, pistachios, and almonds, including vine mealybug, grape mealybug, and Gill's mealybug (Ferrisia gilli).[5]
References
edit- ^ a b "Nephus sordidus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ "Nephus sordidus species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ "Nephus sordidus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ "Nephus sordidus Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
- ^ Carroll, Devin (2013). "Little Brown Mealybug Destroyer" (PDF). IPM Information by Devin Carroll.
Further reading
edit- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
- Casey, Thomas L. (1908). "Notes on the Coccinellidae". The Canadian Entomologist. 40 (11): 393–421.
- Gordon, Robert D. (1985). "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 93 (1): 1–912. ISSN 0028-7199.
- Gordon, Robert; Vandenberg, Natalia (1991). "Field guide to recently introduced species of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) in North America". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.
- LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
- Vandenberg, Natalia J. (2002). Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, M.C.; Skelley, P.E.; Frank, J.H. (eds.). Family 93; Coccinellidae Latreille 1807. American Beetles. Vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 371–389. ISBN 0-8493-0954-9.
- White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.
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