Serangium is a genus in the lady beetle family (Coccinellidae).
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| Serangium parcesetosum adult | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Coccinellidae |
| Subfamily: | Microweiseinae |
| Tribe: | Serangiini |
| Genus: | Serangium Blackburn, 1889[1] |
| Type species | |
| Serangium mysticum Blackburn, 1889
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The genus was described by Blackburn in 1889, working in Australia.[1] It had 45 described species in 2011, mainly from the Oriental Region.[2]
In 2018, fossils of two species assigned to the genus, S. twardowskii and S. gedanicum, were described from Baltic amber of Eocene age.[3]
Serangium maculigerum, the citrus whitefly ladybird, is a predator of pest insects such as Orchamoplatus citri, the Australian citrus whitefly.[4]
Species edit
- extant
- S. japonicum
- S. maculigerum
- S. montazerii
- S. parcesetosum
- fossil
References edit
- ^ a b Blackburn, Thomas (1889). "Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia (11): 175–214.
- ^ Wang, Xingmin; Ren, Shunxiang; Chen, Xiaosheng (6 Oct 2011). "A review of the genus Serangium Blackburn (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) from China". ZooKeys (134): 33–63. doi:10.3897/zookeys.134.1715. PMC 3229210. PMID 22140341.
- ^ a b c Szawaryn, Karol; Szwedo, Jacek (21 May 2018). "Have ladybird beetles and whiteflies co-existed for at least 40 Mya?". PalZ. 92 (4): 593–603. doi:10.1007/s12542-018-0409-5. S2CID 90619916.
- ^ Martin, N. A. (2017). "Citrus whitefly ladybird - Serangium maculigerum". Landcare Research. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ Szawaryn, Karol (26 March 2019). "Unexpected diversity of whitefly predators in Eocene Baltic amber—new fossil Serangium species (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)". Zootaxa. 4571 (2): 270. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4571.2.7. PMID 31715820. S2CID 109922678.
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