Scymnus Kugelann, 1794

Duarte-De-Mélo, Jefferson, Almeida, Lúcia Massutti De & Lima, Iracilda Maria De Moura, 2025, A diversity panorama of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from Northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 5728 (3), pp. 451-495 : 475

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scientific name	Scymnus Kugelann, 1794
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Scymnus Kugelann, 1794 View in CoL

Scymnus View in CoL [ sensu lato] Kugelann, 1794: 545; Herbst, 1797: 339; Mulsant, 1846: 219; 1850: 950; Crotch, 1874: 239; Chapuis,

1876: 213; Korschefsky, 1931: 115; Blackwelder, 1945: 444; Sasaji, 1971: 134; Gordon, 1987: 30–32; Ślipiński, 2007:

108. Scymnus ( Pullus) Mulsant, 1846: 241 ; Gordon, 1987: 31–32; Gordon, 2000: 58. Anisoscymnus Crotch, 1874: 273 ; Weise, 1891: 391. Scymnomorpha Blackburn, 1892: 242 ; Ślipiński, 2007: 108. Nipponopullus Kamiya, 1961: 284 ; Ślipiński, 2007: 108. Scymnus ( Paucus) Duverger, 1990: 67 ; Ślipiński et al., 2012: 680. Type species: Scymnus nigrinus Kugelann, 1794 ; by subsequent designation of Korschefsky (1931).

Distribution by States in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Maranhão; Piauí; Ceará; Pernambuco (oceanic archipelago of Fernando de Noronha); Rio Grande do Norte; Paraíba; Bahia; Alagoas.

Species from the Northeast Region of Brazil. Scymnus ( Pullus) cerinotum Gordon, 2000 ; Scymnus ( Pullus) demerarensis Gordon, 2000 ; Scymnus ( Pullus) rubicundus Erichson, 1847 .

Comments. Only Scymnus ( Pullus) occurs in South America with 28 species, ten of which are found in Brazil, with three in Northeast Brazil ( Gordon 2000). The exotic S. ( Scymnus) interruptus (Goeze, 1777) also occurs in South America (González et al. 2019).