The funestic survey of ladybirds (Col.: Coccinellidae) in north of khuzestan

Subject Areas : entomology and othea arthropods

M. E. Ghale Seyedi ¹ , R. jafari ² , R. Vafaei Shoushtari ³

1 - Entomology Department, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch, Arak, Iran
2 - Entomology Department, Agricultural Faculty, Islamic Azad University, Boroujerd Branch, Boroujerd, Iran
3 - Entomology Department, Agricultural faculty, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch, Arak, Iran

Received: 2012-10-28 Accepted : 2013-11-27 Published : 2015-02-20

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The fauna of coccinellids (Col.Coccinellidae) was studied in north of  Khuzestan provence ,Iran during 2010-2011. total of 17 species from 13 genera, 5 tribe and 4 subfamilies were collected and identified. External characters plus characteristics of the male and female genitalia were used in order to diagnose species. Among species collected, six species were new records for Khuzestan province which marked with asterisk (*). Many species were predacious, preying on various species of aphids, mites and coccids. The scientific names of the species according to their subfamilies are as follows.   Subfamily: Coccinallinae 1-Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus 1758 2-Coccinella undecimpunctata Linnaeus 1758 *3-Calvia quatuordecimguttata Linnaeus 1758 4-Hippodamia variegata Goeze 1777 5-Oenopia conglobata Linnaeus 1758 6-Oenopia oncina Olivier 1808 7-Adalia bipunctata linnaeus 1758 *8-Propylea quatuordecimpunctata Linnaeus 1758 9-Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata Linnaeus 1758 Subfamily: Chilocorinae    10-Chilocorus bipustulatus Linnaeus 1758 *11-Exochomus flavipes Goeze 1777 12-Brumus octosignatus Gelber 1830 Subfamily : Scymninae *13-Scymnus aptezoides Capra&Fursh 1967 *14-Scymnus pallipes Mulsant 1850 15-Scymnus syriacus Marseul1868  *16-Cryptolemus montrozeri Mulsant 1850 Subfamily : Epilachninae 17-Epilachna chrysomelina Mulsant 1850