Rhyzobius waterhousii

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Coccinelloidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Coccinelloidea

Familia: Coccinellidae
Subfamilia: Coccinellinae
Tribus: Coccidulini
Genus: Rhyzobius
Species: Rhyzobius waterhousei

Name

Rhyzobius waterhousei (Mulsant, 1850)

• Original combination: Scymnus (Pullus) waterhousii Mulsant, 1850: 994
• Authority for current placement: Booth & Pope, 1989: 368 (lectotype designated)
• Type locality: Australia
• Holotype: OUM

Synonyms

• Rhyzobius speratus Blackburn, 1889: 207 (syn. Tomaszewska, 2010: 229)

References

Primary references

• Mulsant, E. 1850. Species des Coléoptères trimères sécuripalpes. Annales des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, d’Agriculture et d’Industrie, Lyon (2) 2: 1–1104. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Blackburn, T. 1889. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 11: 175–214. BHL Reference page. 
• Booth, R.G. & Pope, R.D. 1989: A review of the type material of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) described by F.W. Hope, and by E. Mulsant in the Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford. Entomologica Scandinavica, 20(3): 343–370. DOI: 10.1163/187631289X00366 Full text PDF Reference page. 
• Tomaszewska, W. 2010: Rhyzobius Stephens, 1829 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), a revision of the world species. Fauna Mundi 2. PDFReference page.