Harmonia quadripunctata ( Pontoppidan, 1763 )

Najajrah, Mohammad H., Swaileh, Khalid M. & Qumsiyeh, Mazin B., 2019, Systematic list, geographic distribution and ecological significance of lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from the West Bank (Central Palestine), Zootaxa 4664 (1), pp. 1-46 : 10

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4664.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5584894

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Harmonia quadripunctata ( Pontoppidan, 1763 )
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Harmonia quadripunctata ( Pontoppidan, 1763)

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Material: Wadi Fukin 1 ( PMNH # E12464, 1, 21 March 2018). Bethlehem 1 ( PMNH # E12463, 1, 20 June 2018).

Remarks: Harmonia quadripunctata is native to the Palaearctic region ( Vandenberg 1990), and was mostly found feeding on aphids of pine and cypress trees ( Khalil 2006). Coccinellids are exotherms, depending on external temperature to determine population dynamics ( Hodek et al. 2015); for example, climate change reduced the quantity and duration of oviposition of H. quadripunctata ( Belyakova et al. 2016) . Populations of this species may be reduced in the future or currently because of climate change. It was found in two areas in the Mediterranean zone.

PMNH

Peabody Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Coccinellidae

Genus

Harmonia

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