The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from Fuerteventura, Canary Islands

Romanowski, Jerzy; Ceryngier, Piotr; Větrovec, Jaroslav; Szawaryn, Karol

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“…Distribution: Native to North America but used outside of its native range as a biocontrol agent against whiteflies (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) [ 26 ]. Recorded on most of the islands of the Canarian archipelago, i.e., La Palma [ 27 ], La Gomera [ 17 ], Tenerife [ 17 , 28 ], Fuerteventura [ 18 ], and Lanzarote [ 19 ]. New to Gran Canaria.…”

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“…Distribution: Australian species, widely used as a biological control agent and established throughout the warmer regions of the world [ 31 ], including all seven islands of the Canary archipelago [ 3 , 18 , 19 ].…”

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“…Distribution: Endemic Canarian species, known to be on all islands of the archipelago [ 3 , 18 , 19 , 20 ].…”

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“…Distribution: Described from Tenerife [ 17 ]. Recently its presence on Fuerteventura [ 18 ] and Lanzarote [ 19 ] was documented. New to Gran Canaria.…”

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“…Despite this long history of studying ladybird fauna in the Canary Islands, the species composition on individual islands has not been sufficiently documented. Our recent surveys on Fuerteventura [ 4 , 18 ], Lanzarote [ 19 ], and El Hierro [ 20 ] allowed us to record many ladybird species not previously reported to be on those islands.…”

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Endemics Versus Newcomers: The Ladybird Beetle (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) Fauna of Gran Canaria

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Research on the fauna of beetles (Coleoptera) of the Canary Islands has a long tradition, which enables tracking changes in their species composition and arrival of new species. In this paper, we provide new faunistic data on the ladybird beetles (Coccinellidae) recorded on Gran Canaria, one of the central islands of the archipelago, and then analyze available information on the Gran Canarian ladybird fauna from geographical and historical points of view. The field survey resulted in recording 1402 ladybird individuals belonging to 30 species. Ten of these species were new to Gran Canaria and three of them, Chilocorus bipustulatus (Linnaeus), Nephus bisignatus (Boheman), and Nephus ulbrichi Fürsch, had not previously been reported to be on any of the islands of the Canarian archipelago. Tetrabrachys tinerfensis (Hodgson) is synonymized with T. deserticola (Wollaston). Our survey and literature reports allowed us to recognize 42 species of Coccinellidae so far recorded on Gran Canaria. Seventeen of them (40%) belonged to the Canarian endemic and subendemic species, and 21 (50%) were newcomers and presumed newcomers. Colonization of Gran Canaria and other islands of the archipelago by ladybird species of various origins seems to be a frequent phenomenon that may pose a threat to the unique communities of the native Canarian species.

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“…Distribution: Endemic Canarian species, known to be on all islands of the archipelago [ 3 , 18 , 19 , 20 ].…”

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“…Distribution: Described from Tenerife [ 17 ]. Recently its presence on Fuerteventura [ 18 ] and Lanzarote [ 19 ] was documented. New to Gran Canaria.…”

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Endemics Versus Newcomers: The Ladybird Beetle (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) Fauna of Gran Canaria

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Parasitism of ladybirds by Hesperomyces in the Canary Islands

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Romanowski,

Van Caenegem

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Between 2016 and 2022, the ladybird (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) fauna was surveyed on seven main islands of the Canary Islands archipelago. Adult specimens were collected and screened for thalli of Laboulbeniales (Ascomycota: Laboulbeniomycetes). Altogether, 9,807 ladybird specimens belonging to 39 species were screened, of which 103, representing 10 species, were infected by Laboulbeniales of the genus Hesperomyces. Morphological and molecular examination allowed to distinguish at least seven host-specific Hesperomyces species belonging to three groups: He. virescens species complex (associated with Adalia decempunctata, Harmonia axyridis, Hyperaspis vinciguerrae, Novius cruentatus, Parexochomus nigripennis, and P. quadriplagiatus), He. coccinelloides species complex (Scymnus nubilus, Sc. subvillosus durantae, and Stethorus tenerifensis), and a species (on Nephus flavopictus) that cannot be assigned to either of the above species complexes or the currently described species in the genus. The most widespread and abundant species was Hesperomyces ex St. tenerifensis; it was recorded on all seven islands with prevalence rates ranging between 0.04 and 0.19.

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The first fossil Microweiseini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from the Eocene of Europe and its significance for the reconstruction of the evolution of ladybird beetles

Szawaryn

2021

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

355

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Molecular studies on the evolution of ladybird beetles date their origin somewhere in the Cretaceous, but no fossils are known from that period. The oldest representatives come from the Eocene, with the richest diversity found in Baltic amber. Until now, representatives of only three tribes (from around 40 known) have been recognized. Recent investigation of Baltic amber have revealed representatives of the fourth tribe (Microweiseini), which are described here as Baltosidis gen. nov. with three new species: B. damgaardi sp. nov., B. damzeni sp. nov. and B. szadziewskii sp. nov. In order to test the systematic placement of this extinct genus, a phylogenetic analysis of Microweiseinae was conducted. The results place Baltosidis in a cluster with four modern genera of Microweiseini distributed exclusively in the New World. Such a distribution pattern is surprising because no close relatives of the newly described fossil genus are known from Europe or even from the Palaearctic region. Analysis of the distribution of Microweiseini genera leads to the conclusion of a possible Gondwanan origin of the tribe. Further comparison of the diversity of the ladybird beetles from modern ecosystems with those known from Baltic amber suggests substantial differences between these communities and a recent radiation of modern fauna.

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The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) from Fuerteventura, Canary Islands

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Endemics Versus Newcomers: The Ladybird Beetle (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) Fauna of Gran Canaria

Endemics Versus Newcomers: The Ladybird Beetle (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) Fauna of Gran Canaria

Parasitism of ladybirds by Hesperomyces in the Canary Islands

The first fossil Microweiseini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from the Eocene of Europe and its significance for the reconstruction of the evolution of ladybird beetles

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