Scymnus Blackburn, 1895
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Coccinellidae
- genus
- Scymnus
description
Justification: Although ITIS lists Scymnus varipes Blackburn (TNS: 187060); Slipinski et al. (2012) recognized Scymnus varipes Blackburn as a new junior synonym of Scymnus ambulans Blackburn. Names Used in Hawaii: Leeper (1976: 301) treated this species as Scymnus varipes Blackburn. This has been the only name for this species in found in Hawaiian literature. Nishida (2002: 53) listed S. varipes. The UHIM currently lists S. varipes (Blackburn). This is the first use of Scymnus ambulans Blackburn in Hawaiian literature.