Serangium Explained

Serangium is a genus in the lady beetle family (Coccinellidae).

The genus was described by Blackburn in 1889, working in Australia. It had 45 described species in 2011, mainly from the Oriental Region.^[1]

In 2018, fossils of two species assigned to the genus, S. twardowskii and S. gedanicum, were described from Baltic amber of Eocene age.^[2]

Serangium maculigerum, the citrus whitefly ladybird, is a predator of pest insects such as Orchamoplatus citri, the Australian citrus whitefly.^[3]

Species

extant

• S. japonicum
• S. maculigerum
• S. montazerii
• S. parcesetosum

fossil

• S. gedanicum (Szawaryn & Szwedo 2018)^[2]
• S. kalandyki (Szawaryn 2019)^[4]
• S. twardowskii (Szawaryn & Szwedo 2018)^[2]

Notes and References

1. Wang . Xingmin . Ren . Shunxiang . Chen . Xiaosheng . A review of the genus Serangium Blackburn (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) from China . ZooKeys . 134 . 6 Oct 2011 . 10.3897/zookeys.134.1715 . 33–63. 22140341 . 3229210 . free .
2. Szawaryn . Karol . Szwedo . Jacek . Have ladybird beetles and whiteflies co-existed for at least 40 Mya? . PalZ . 92 . 4 . 21 May 2018 . 10.1007/s12542-018-0409-5 . 593–603. 90619916 .
3. Web site: Martin . N. A. . Citrus whitefly ladybird - Serangium maculigerum . Landcare Research . 5 December 2022 . 2017.
4. Szawaryn . Karol . Unexpected diversity of whitefly predators in Eocene Baltic amber—new fossil Serangium species (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) . Zootaxa . 4571 . 2 . 26 March 2019 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.2.7 . 270. 31715820 . 109922678 .