Aspidimerini
| Aspidimerini | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Coccinellidae |
| Subfamily: | Coccinellinae |
| Tribe: | Aspidimerini Weise, 1900[1] |
Aspidimerini is a tribe of beetles in the family Coccinellidae.[2] The included species are distributed widely across South and Southeast Asia and are predators of aphids, whiteflies, and scale insects.[3]
Description
Beetles in this tribe are characterized by three morphological features.[1] The first is legs with very broad and flattened trochanters and femora, forming subrectangular or oval clubs that protect their tibiae and tarsi. The second is very short antennae with eight or nine segments. These antennae are hidden in antennal grooves and only partially visible in a ventral view. The third is an abdomen with six ventrites, with the first ventrite being distinctly longer than the second.
Taxonomy
Aspidimerini contains the following genera:
- Acarinus
- Aspidimerus[2]
- Cryptogonus[2]
- Pseudaspidimerus[2]
- Trigonocarinatus
- Tumidusternus
References
- 1 2 Huo, Lizhi; Li, Wenjing; Chen, Xiaosheng; Wang, Xingmin; Ren, Shunxiang (2 July 2015). "Tumidusternus, a new genus of Aspidimerini from China (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae)". ZooKeys (511): 81–87. Bibcode:2015ZooK..511...81H. doi:10.3897/zookeys.511.9582. PMC 4523746. PMID 26257552. Retrieved 30 March 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 "Tribe Aspidimerini". iNaturalist. Retrieved 29 March 2026.
- ↑ Huo, Lizhi; Li, Wenjing; Chen, Xiaosheng; Ren, Shunxiang; Wang, Xingmin (11 August 2015). "New species, new synonymies and a new record of the genus Cryptogonus Mulsant, 1850 (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) from China". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 62 (2): 203–210. doi:10.3897/dez.62.5242. Retrieved 30 March 2026.