Oenopia (beetle)

Oenopia
Oenopia conglobata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Coccinellidae
Subfamily: Coccinellinae
Tribe: Coccinellini
Genus: Oenopia
Mulsant, 1850[1]
Synonyms
  • Aza Mulsant, 1850
  • Synharmonia Ganglbauer, 1899
  • Protocaria Timberlake, 1943
  • Gyrocaria Timberlake, 1943
  • Pseudoharmonia Savoyskaya, 1963
  • Paramulsantina Hoang, 1982
  • Pseudoenopia Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1986

Oenopia is an Old World genus of aphid-eating beetles in the Coccinellini tribe.[2][3] The genus has been recorded in Europe, Russia, Africa, India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Philippines, New Guinea, and Australia.[4]

Description

Oenopia species are diverse in appearance, with some possessing rounded, convex forms and others elongate and flattened.[3] The genus is distinguished by distinct characteristics in the genitalia of both sexes.

Taxonomy

Oenopia contains the following species:

Selected former species

References

  1. ↑ "Oenopia Mulsant, 1850". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 22 March 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 "Genus Oenopia". iNaturalist. Retrieved 22 March 2026.
  3. 1 2 Vandenberg, Natalia J. (1996). "Notes on Oenopia Mulsant (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington: 385–389. Retrieved 22 March 2026.
  4. ↑ Pope, Rd (1 June 1988). "A revision of the Australian Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Part 1. Subfamily Coccinellinae". Invertebrate Taxonomy. 2 (5): 633–735. doi:10.1071/IT9880633.