Azya luteipes Mulsant, 1850

Swezey, O. H., 1942, Miscellaneous Families of Guam Coleoptera, Insects of Guam I, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, pp. 150-171 : 160

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5167701

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5211623

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scientific name

Azya luteipes Mulsant
status

 

6. Azya luteipes Mulsant ,

Spec. Coleopt. Trim. Securipalp., 928, 1850. Crotch, Rev. Coccinellidae, 279, 1874.

Agana, June 2, Swezey; Sumay Road , June 2, Swezey; Orote Pen., Sept. 1, 27, Swezey; Merizo , Oct. 20, Swezey.

This tropical American ladybeetle was probably introduced into Guam from Honolulu at the same time as Cryptolaemus montrouzieri , but there is no record of it. vVe found it occasionally in 1936. It feeds on soft scales.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Coccinellidae

Genus

Azya