Mada Mulsant, 1850

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 : 470

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Mada Mulsant, 1850 View in CoL

Epilachna ( Mada) Mulsant, 1850: 858 . Mada View in CoL : Korschefsky, 1931: 68; Blackwelder, 1945: 442; Gordon, 1975: 217; 1987: 6–7, 33; Jadwiszczak & Węgrzynowicz, 2003: 197; Szawaryn et al., 2015: 13; Tomaszewska & Szawaryn, 2016: 14.

Ladoria Mulsant, 1850: 928 View in CoL ; Gordon, 1975: 217.

Type species: Epilachna fraterna Mulsant, 1850 ; by subsequent designation of Korschefsky (1931).

Distribution by States in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Pernambuco; Bahia.

Species from the Northeast Region of Brazil. Mada gounellei Gordon, 1975 ; Mada lineatopunctata ( Germar, 1824) .

Comments. Mada has 45 species and the genus is distributed throughout Central and South America ( Tomaszewska & Szawaryn 2016; Szawaryn & González 2017). Fourteen species occur in Brazil, but only M. gounellei and M. lineatopunctata are documented for NE Brazil ( Gordon 1975).