Epipleuria

Epipleuria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Coccinellidae
Subfamily:	Coccidulinae (disputed)
Tribe:	Coccidulini
Genus:	Epipleuria Fürsch, 2001
Type species
Rhyzobius epipleuralis Pope, 1957
Diversity
24 species

Epipleuria is a genus in the lady beetle family (Coccinellidae). It belongs to tribe Coccidulini of subfamily Coccidulinae, which is sometimes subsumed in the Coccinellinae as a tribe with the Coccidulini downranked to subtribe. As of 2005, two dozen species are known, all from the southern half of Africa.^[1]

The genus was only established in 2001, with the discovery of a number of beetles closely related to "Rhyzobius" epipleuralis but not actually part of the genus Rhyzobius.^[1]

Species

As of 2005, the species of Epipleuria are:^[2]

Epipleuria caputabdita Fürsch, 2007
Epipleuria endroedyi Fürsch, 2001
Epipleuria epipleuralis (Pope, 1957)
Epipleuria globosa Fürsch, 2001
Epipleuria gussmannae Fürsch, 2001
Epipleuria hirsutula Fürsch, 2007
Epipleuria hirta Fürsch, 2007
Epipleuria inexspectata Fürsch, 2001
Epipleuria katbergensis Fürsch, 2001
Epipleuria lapidaria Fürsch, 2007
Epipleuria longissima Fürsch, 2001
Epipleuria mahnerti Fürsch, 2001

Epipleuria namaquaensis Fürsch, 2001
Epipleuria natalensis Fürsch, 2001
Epipleuria parcepunctata Fürsch, 2001
Epipleuria parva Fürsch, 2001
Epipleuria popei Fürsch, 2001
Epipleuria punctillum Fürsch, 2001
Epipleuria rufosuturalis Fürsch, 2001
Epipleuria rugata Fürsch, 2007
Epipleuria ruthmuellerae Fürsch, 2007
Epipleuria saxicola Fürsch, 2007
Epipleuria trianguliloba Fürsch, 2001
Epipleuria ventricosa Fürsch, 2001

Footnotes

1 2 Fürsch (2007)
↑ Wikispecies (2 May 2008), Fürsch (2007)

References

Wikispecies has information related to: Epipleuria

Fürsch, M. (2007): New species of Epipleuria Fürsch and Rhyzobius Stephens from southern Africa (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Coccidulini). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 44: 11-24. HTML abstract

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