Scymninae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There are at least 170 described species in Scymninae.
Genera
Acarinus Kapur, 1948 Acoccidula Barowskij, 1931 Andrzej Slipinski, 2007 Aponephus Booth, 1991 Apseudoscymnus Hoang, 1984 Aspidimerus Mulsant, 1850 Axinoscymnus Kamiya, 1963 Blaisdelliana Gordon, 1970 Brachiacantha Chevrolat in Dejean, 1837 (spurleg lady beetles) Calloeneis Grote, 1873 Clitostethus Weise, 1885 (=Nephaspis) Crypticolus Strohecker, 1953 Cryptognatha Mulsant, 1850 Cryptogonus Mulsant, 1850 Curticornis Gordon, 1971 Cyra Mulsant, 1850 Cyrema Blackburn, 1889 Decadiomus Chapin, 1933 Diazonema Weise, 1926 Dichaina Weise, 1926 Didion Casey, 1899 Diomus Mulsant, 1850 Erratodiomus Gordon, 1999 Helesius Casey, 1899 Heterodiomus Brèthes, 1924 Hinda Mulsant, 1850 Horniolus Weise, 1901 Hyperaspidius Crotch, 1873 Hyperaspis Chevrolat in Dejean, 1837 Keiscymnus Sasaji, 1971 Leptoscymnus Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1978 Magnodiomus Gordon, 1999 Midus Mulsant, 1850 Mimoscymnus Gordon, 1994 Moiradiomus Vandenberg & Hanson, 2019 Nephus Mulsant, 1846 Parasidis Brèthes, 1924 Pentilia Mulsant, 1850 Planorbata Gordon, 1994 Platynaspis Redtenbacher, 1843 Propiptus Weise, 1901 Pseudaspidimerus Kapur, 1948 Pullosidis Fürsch, 1987 Sasajiscymnus Vandenberg, 2004 Scymniscus Dobzhanskiy, 1928 Scymnobius Casey, 1899 Scymnus Kugelann, 1794 Selvadius Casey, 1899 (amber lady beetles) Stethorus Weise, 1885 (spider mite destroyers) Thalassa Mulsant, 1850 Tiphysa Mulsant, 1850 Veronicobius Broun, 1893 Viridigloba Gordon, 1978 Zagloba Casey, 1899 (scalehunter lady beetles) Zilus Mulsant, 1850 (velvethead lady beetles)
References
"The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico", Robert D. Gordon. 1985. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 93, No. 1. Gordon, Robert D. (1985). "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico". Journal of the New York Entomological Society, vol. 93, no. 1, 1–912. Kuznetsov, Victor N. (1997). "Lady Beetles of the Russian Far East". Center for Systematic Entomology, Memoir No. 1, xii + 248. Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds. (1995). "Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)". Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2, 779–1006. Vandenberg, Natalia J. / Arnett, Ross H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley, and J. H. Frank, eds. (2002). "Family 93; Coccinellidae Latreille 1807". American Beetles, vol. 2; Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea, 371–389.
Further reading
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Scymninae Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida .
Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.