COCCINELLINAE, Latreille, 1807

Peck, Stewart B., Thomas, Michael C. & Robert H. Turnbow, Jr., 2014, The diversity and distributions of the beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Guadeloupe Archipelago (Grande-Terre, Basse-Terre, La Désirade, Marie-Galante, Les Saintes, and Petite-Terre), Lesser Antilles, Insecta Mundi 2014 (352), pp. 1-156 : 75-76

SUBFAMILY COCCINELLINAE

TRIBE COCCINELLINI

Coleomegilla maculata (DeGeer) 1775: 392 ( Coccinella ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 482 ( Megilla ); Gorham 1898b: 339. Blackwelder 1944-1957: 453; Tucker 1952: 344; Bennett and Simmonds 1964: 93; Miskimen and Bond 1970: 90; Bennett and Alam 1985: 25; Lucas 2012: 94. Distribution. Barbados, Cuba, Curaçao, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, St. Croix, St. Vincent. USA, Mexico to Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad to Argentina; widespread New World. Notes. Predaceous on aphids ( Aphis spp. ), eggs of moths ( Spodoptera spp. ) and on other soft bodied insects on Barbados.

Cycloneda delauneyi (Fleutiaux and Sallé) 1890: 483 ( Neda ); Gorham 1898b: 340; Blackwelder 1944- 1957: 452; Bennett and Simmonds 1964: 92; Lucas 2012: 94. Distribution. Grenada, Guadeloupe; Lesser Antilles endemic.

Cycloneda sanguinea (L.) 1763: 10 ( Coccinella ); Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 483 ( Neda ); Gorham 1898b: 339; Leng and Mutchler 1917: 200; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 452; Ramos 1946: 37; Tucker 1952: 344; Bennett and Simmonds 1964: 93; Miskimen and Bond 1970: 90; Bennett and Alam 1985: 25; Cooter 1983: 185; Vandenberg 2002: 228; Valentine and Ivie 2005: 278; Ivie et al. 2008b: 251; Turnbow and Thomas 2008: 27; Lucas 2012: 94. Distribution. Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Bequia, Carriacou, Cuba, Culebra, Curaçao, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guana, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Martinique, Mona, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, St. Croix, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Union, Vieques. USA through Central America to Trinidad, to Argentina and Chile; widespread New World. Notes. Chapin (1957) note s the subspecies Cycloneda sanguinea limbifer to be widespread in the West Indies as far south as St. Lucia ( Vandenberg 2002: 232). A general predator on Barbados; predaceous on Sipha flava Forbes , Aphis spp. , Toxoptera auranti (Boyer de Fonscolonbe) , Myzus persicae (Sulzer) , Saccharosydne saccharivora (Westwood) , Orthezia spp. , Diatraea saccharalis (Fabricius) , Spodoptera spp. , Anornis spp., and the moths Pseudoplusia includens (Walker) , Trichoplusia ni Hübner, Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus) , and Heliothis spp.

TRIBE HALYZINI

Psyllobora lineola Fabricius 1792: 283 ; Fleutiaux and Sallé 1890: 482; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 455; Ramos 1946: 37; Bennett and Simmonds 1964: 94; Miskimen and Bond 1970: 91; Valentine and Ivie 2005: 278; Ivie et al. 2008b: 251; Lucas 2012: 94. Distribution. Guadeloupe, Guana, Jamaica, Martinique, Mona, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saba, St. Croix; widespread Antilles endemic.