Harmonia axyridis (Pallas, 1773)

Ansi, Amin Al, Alkhalaf, Areej A., Fadl, Hassan, Rasool, Iftekhar & Dhafer, Hathal Al, 2020, An annotated checklist of Coccinellidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) with eight new records from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, ZooKeys 1006, pp. 35-89 : 35

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1006.59123
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4DD58069-8DFE-4444-8DBA-652DF0D671B8
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6CC06C88-5497-536D-8A60-84E003DF933B
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scientific name	Harmonia axyridis (Pallas, 1773)
status

Treatment

Coccinella axyridis Pallas, 1773: 716.

Remark.

This species is a predator of aphids ( Koch 2003).

Material examined.

Riyadh: Ad Diriyah, 24°40'N, 46°35'E, 4.V.2005, SN, Turkestani, S., 1ex.

Local distribution.

This species was recently recorded by Biranvand et al. (2019) from Riyadh as a new record to SA.

World distribution.

Asia: ES, FE, GAN, GUA, GUI, GUX, HKG, HEB, HEI, HEN, HKG, HUB, HUN, JA, JIA, JIL, JIX, KZ, LIA, MG, NC, NIN, NMO, SC, SCH, SD, SHA, SHN, SHX, TAI, WS, XIN, YUN, and ZHE; introduced to Europe: CZi, FRi, GBi, and GEi; NAR and ORR ( Kovář 2007); SA ( Biranvand et al. 2019), widely distributed as an invasive species in most continents ( Roy et al. 2016).