Chilocorus bipustulatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Ansi, Amin Al, Alkhalaf, Areej A., Fadl, Hassan, Rasool, Iftekhar & Dhafer, Hathal Al, 2020, An annotated checklist of Coccinellidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) with eight new records from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, ZooKeys 1006, pp. 35-89 : 35

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1006.59123

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scientific name

Chilocorus bipustulatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
status

 

Chilocorus bipustulatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Coccinella bipustulata Linnaeus, 1758: 367.

Remarks.

This species is known as the biocontrol agent of the scale insect Parlatoria blanchardi (Targioni Tozzetti 1892), a date palm pest, and Aonidiella orientalis (Newstead 1894), a pest of Citrus spp. ( Martin 1972), and is widely distributed throughout the world. In the present study, its adults were collected from date palm orchards on the grasses and shrubs under the palm tree and in the agroecosystem on the grasses.

Material examined.

old collection from ANMA, Riyadh: Ad Diriyah, Education farm, 24°40'N, 46°35'E, 26.III.1975, 1♂, hand written label (date palm orchard); Wadi Hanifah, 24°45'N, 46°36'E, 26.I.1977, Al Shaqaty, M., ANMA, 1ex; Riyadh, 24°43.01'N, 46°38.65'E, 4.III.1979, Sarhan, K. and Shalaby, F., 29exs, hand written label [grasses]; V.1966, ANMA, 1ex.

Local distribution.

This species was found in Riyadh region and listed by Martin (1972) and reported by Beccari (1971) from Riyadh and by Talhouk (1982) from Riyadh and Eastern region.

World distribution.

Asia: AF, CY, FE, GAN, IN, IQ, PAL, JO, KI, KZ, LE, MG, SA, SI, SY, TR, UZ, and XIN; Europe: AB, AL, AR, AU, AZ, BE, BH, BY, CZ, CT, DE, EN, FI, FR, GB, GE, GG, GR, HU, IR, IT, LA, LT, LU, MA, MC, MD, NL, NR, NT, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, SP, ST, SV, SZ, TR, UK, and YU; North Africa: AG, EG, LB, MO, MR, TU; AFR, and NAR ( Kovář 2007).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Coccinellidae

SubFamily

Coccinellinae

Tribe

Chilocorini

Genus

Chilocorus

Loc

Chilocorus bipustulatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Ansi, Amin Al, Alkhalaf, Areej A., Fadl, Hassan, Rasool, Iftekhar & Dhafer, Hathal Al 2020
2020
Loc

Coccinella bipustulata

Linnaeus 1758
1758