Didion (beetle)

Genus of beetles

Didion

Didion punctatum
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Family:  | Coccinellidae
Tribe:  | Scymnini
Genus:  | Didion
Casey, 1899

Didion is a genus of dusky lady beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There are at least three described species in Didion.[1][2][3][4][5]

## Species

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These three species belong to the genus Didion:

* Didion longulum Casey, 1899 i c g b
* Didion nanum (LeConte, 1852) i c g
* Didion punctatum (Melsheimer, 1847) i c g b (twice-stained ladybug)

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]

## References

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1. ^ a b "Didion". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
2. ^ a b "Browse Didion". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
3. ^ a b "Didion". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
4. ^ a b "Didion Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
5. ^ "Didion Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-07.

## Further reading

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* Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
* Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
* Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88): 1–972. Bibcode:2011ZooK...88....1B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.88.807. PMC 3088472. PMID 21594053.
* Casey, Thomas L. (1908). "Notes on the Coccinellidae". The Canadian Entomologist. 40 (11): 393–421. doi:10.4039/Ent40393-11.
* Gordon, Robert D. (1985). "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 93 (1): 1–912. ISSN 0028-7199.
* Gordon, Robert; Vandenberg, Natalia (1991). "Field guide to recently introduced species of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) in North America". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.
* LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3\. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
* Vandenberg, Natalia J. (2002). Arnett, Ross H. Jr.; Thomas, M.C.; Skelley, P.E.; Frank, J.H. (eds.). Family 93; Coccinellidae Latreille 1807. American Beetles. Vol. 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. pp. 371–389. ISBN 0-8493-0954-9.
* White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.

Taxon identifiers

Didion|

* Wikidata: Q14930997
* BioLib: 535492
* BOLD: 489806
* BugGuide: 249032
* CoL: 62RCH
* EoL: 110675
* GBIF: 1043573
* iNaturalist: 173893
* IRMNG: 1430609
* ITIS: 692177
* NCBI: 524584
* Open Tree of Life: 4616797
* Plazi: D24993DB-79F2-1614-394B-E498FB0F88B3
* ZooBank: C3B6A05C-F3FD-4211-ACF4-39006445FFC9

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