| Brachiacantha | |
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| Brachiacantha ursina | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Coleoptera | 
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia | 
| Family: | Coccinellidae | 
| Subfamily: | Scymninae | 
| Genus: | Brachiacantha Dejean, 1837  | 
Brachiacantha is a genus of lady beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There are at least 25 described species in Brachiacantha.[1][2][3]

Brachiacantha ursina
Species
- Brachiacantha albifrons (Say, 1824) (white-fronted lady beetle)
 - Brachiacantha arizonica Schaeffer, 1908 (Arizona lady beetle)
 - Brachiacantha aurantiapleura Nestor-Arriola, Solís and Toledo-Hernández, 2021
 - Brachiacantha barberi Gordon, 1985 (Barber's lady beetle)
 - Brachiacantha blaisdelli Nunenmacher, 1909
 - Brachiacantha bollii Crotch, 1873 (Boll's lady beetle)
 - Brachiacantha decempustulata (Melsheimer, 1847) (ten-spotted spurleg)
 - Brachiacantha decora Casey, 1899 (decorated lady beetle)
 - Brachiacantha dentata Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
 - Brachiacantha dentipes (Fabricius, 1801)
 - Brachiacantha felina (Fabricius, 1775)
 - Brachiacantha floridensis Blatchley, 1916
 - Brachiacantha gorhami (Weise, 1904)
 - Brachiacantha guatemalensis (Gorham, 1894)
 - Brachiacantha hexaspina González, Větrovec and Nestor-Arriola, 2021
 - Brachiacantha illustris Casey, 1899
 - Brachiacantha indubitabilis Crotch, 1873
 - Brachiacantha invertita Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
 - Brachiacantha isthmena Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
 - Brachiacantha lepida Mulsant, 1850
 - Brachiacantha mimica Nestor-Arriola and Toledo-Hernández, 2021
 - Brachiacantha nubes Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
 - Brachiacantha papiliona Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
 - Brachiacantha quadrillum LeConte, 1858
 - Brachiacantha quadripunctata Melsheimer, 1847
 - Brachiacantha querceti Schwarz, 1878 (oak lady beetle)
 - Brachiacantha rotunda (Fabricius, 1775)
 - Brachiacantha schwarzi Gordon, 1985
 - Brachiacantha soltaui Gordon, 1985
 - Brachiacantha stephani Gordon, 1985 (Stephan's lady beetle)
 - Brachiacantha subfasciata Mulsant, 1850
 - Brachiacantha tau LeConte, 1859 (t-marked lady beetle)
 - Brachiacantha testudo Casey, 1899 (turtle lady)
 - Brachiacantha tica Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021
 - Brachiacantha ursina (Fabricius, 1787) (ursine spurleg lady beetle)
 - Brachiacantha uteella Casey, 1908
 
References
- ↑ "Brachiacantha Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
 - ↑ "Brachiacantha Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
 - ↑ Nestor-Arriola, Jorge Ismael; Toledo-Hernández, Víctor Hugo; Solís, Ángel; González, Guillermo; Větrovec, Jaroslav (16 March 2021). "The Brachiacantha Dejean, 1837 (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) of Central America". ZooKeys (1024): 157–196. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1024.56927. PMC 7990858. PMID 33786006.
 
- "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico", Robert D. Gordon. 1985. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 93, No. 1.
 - Belicek, Joseph (1976). "Coccinellidae of western Canada and Alaska with analyses of the transmontane zoogeographic relationships between the fauna of British Columbia and Alberta (Insecta: Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)". Quaestiones Entomologicae, vol. 12, no. 4, 283–409.
 - Canepari, Claudio (1990). "Who is the author of several genera of Coccinellidae: CHEVROLAT or DEJEAN?". Coccinella, vol. 2, no. 1, 38–39.
 - Duverger, Christian (2001). "Contribution à la connaissance des Hyperaspidinae (2ème note)". Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Bordeaux, vol. 29, no. 4, 221–228.
 - Gordon, Robert D. (1985). "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico". Journal of the New York Entomological Society, vol. 93, no. 1, 1–912.
 - Montgomery, H. Wilson Jr., and Michael A. Goodrich (2002). "The Brachiacantha (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of Illinois". Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science, vol. 95, no. 2, 111–130.
 - Vandenberg, Natalia J. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 93; Coccinellidae Latreille 1807". American Beetles, vol. 2; Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 371–389.
 
Further reading
- NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Brachiacantha
 - Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
 - Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
 - Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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