Scymnus auritus | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Coccinellidae |
Genus: | Scymnus |
Species: | S. auritus
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Binomial name | |
Scymnus auritus |
Scymnus auritus is a species of beetle in family Coccinellidae. It is found in the Palearctic. [2] It is a tiny (2mm. -2.5 2mm.) black ladybird associated with Quercus robur woodland.
In Central Europe it is a mainly found in deciduous forests, groves, and light forests. In spring, the beetles were found on flowering Prunus padus and Crataegus monogyna and later, on oaks and Tilia × europaea [3] The insects feed on aphids on oaks, less frequently on other trees. [4] [5] S. auritus was also reported as a predator of mites occurring on the underside of oak leaves; it also feeds on Phylloxeridae [6]
Europe, Cyprus, European Russia, the Caucasus, Siberia, the Russian Far East; Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Transcaucasia, Middle Asia, Western Asia, China. [7] [8]
Scymnus auritus | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Coccinellidae |
Genus: | Scymnus |
Species: | S. auritus
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Binomial name | |
Scymnus auritus |
Scymnus auritus is a species of beetle in family Coccinellidae. It is found in the Palearctic. [2] It is a tiny (2mm. -2.5 2mm.) black ladybird associated with Quercus robur woodland.
In Central Europe it is a mainly found in deciduous forests, groves, and light forests. In spring, the beetles were found on flowering Prunus padus and Crataegus monogyna and later, on oaks and Tilia × europaea [3] The insects feed on aphids on oaks, less frequently on other trees. [4] [5] S. auritus was also reported as a predator of mites occurring on the underside of oak leaves; it also feeds on Phylloxeridae [6]
Europe, Cyprus, European Russia, the Caucasus, Siberia, the Russian Far East; Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Transcaucasia, Middle Asia, Western Asia, China. [7] [8]