Henosepilachna

Henosepilachna is a genus of beetle in the family Coccinellidae, including several pest species, such as the 28-spotted potato ladybird (which may refer to either Henosepilachna vigintioctomaculata,[1] or Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata[2]).

Henosepilachna
Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Coccinellidae
Subfamily:
Epilachninae
Genus:
Henosepilachna

Li & Cook, 1961
Species

~20; See Text

Distribution

Species in this genus occur through much of Asia and Australasia, and one species, Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata, has been accidentally introduced in other parts of the world (e.g., Brazil and Argentina[3]).

Species

Henosepilachna argus (Geoffroy)
Henosepilachna bifasciata (Linnaeus)
Henosepilachna boisduvali (Mulsant)
Henosepilachna dodecastigma (Wiedemann)
Henosepilachna enneasticta (Mulsant)
Henosepilachna indica (Mulsant)
Henosepilachna niponica (Lewis)
Henosepilachna ocellata (Redtenbacher)
Henosepilachna processa Li
Henosepilachna pusillanima (Mulsant)
Henosepilachna pustulosa (Kono)
Henosepilachna septima (Dieke)
Henosepilachna sumbana Bielawski
Henosepilachna vigintioctomaculata (Motschulsky)
Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata (Fabricius)
Henosepilachna vigintisexpunctata (Boisduval)
Henosepilachna yasutomii Katakura

Former Species

Henosepilachna elaterii (Rossi) (now in Chnootriba)
Henosepilachna guttatopustulata (Fabricius) (now in Papuaepilachna)

gollark: Just become immune to amnestics.
gollark: No, I mean what makes you so sure there's no Foundation here?
gollark: What? Why go to a different one for that?
gollark: I don't think there's much "incentive" to not kill people as long as they mostly die a while after they're most infectious.
gollark: There isn't much selection pressure either way on deadliness. There obviously is on infectiousness.

References
  1. AgroAtlas
  2. "Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata (Fabricius)". CSIRO. July 7, 2005. Retrieved April 27, 2009.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2016-04-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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