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Genus of beetles
For the plant genus formerly using the name Serangium, see
Monstera .
Serangium maculigerum larva, New Zealand
Serangium is a
genus in the
lady beetle
family (Coccinellidae).
The genus was described by
Blackburn in 1889, working in Australia.
[1] It had 45 described species in 2011, mainly from the Oriental Region.
[2]
In 2018,
fossils of two species assigned to the genus, S. twardowskii and S. gedanicum , were described from
Baltic amber of
Eocene age.
[3]
Serangium maculigerum , the citrus whitefly ladybird, is a predator of pest insects such as Orchamoplatus citri , the Australian citrus
whitefly .
[4]
Species
extant
S. japonicum
S. maculigerum
S. montazerii
S. parcesetosum
fossil
S. gedanicum (Szawaryn & Szwedo 2018)
[3]
S. kalandyki (Szawaryn 2019)
[5]
S. twardowskii (Szawaryn & Szwedo 2018)
[3]
References
^
a
b
Blackburn, Thomas (1889). "Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia (11): 175–214.
^ Wang, Xingmin; Ren, Shunxiang; Chen, Xiaosheng (6 Oct 2011).
"A review of the genus Serangium Blackburn (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) from China" . ZooKeys (134): 33–63.
doi :
10.3897/zookeys.134.1715 .
PMC
3229210 .
PMID
22140341 .
^
a
b
c Szawaryn, Karol; Szwedo, Jacek (21 May 2018). "Have ladybird beetles and whiteflies co-existed for at least 40 Mya?". PalZ . 92 (4): 593–603.
doi :
10.1007/s12542-018-0409-5 .
S2CID
90619916 .
^ Martin, N. A. (2017).
"Citrus whitefly ladybird - Serangium maculigerum " . Landcare Research. Retrieved 5 December 2022 .
^ Szawaryn, Karol (26 March 2019). "Unexpected diversity of whitefly predators in Eocene Baltic amber—new fossil Serangium species (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)". Zootaxa . 4571 (2): 270.
doi :
10.11646/zootaxa.4571.2.7 .
PMID
31715820 .
S2CID
109922678 .