Brachiacantha is a genus of lady beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There are at least 25 described species in Brachiacantha.
Species buckleyi group Brachiacantha buckleyi Crotch, 1874 Brachiacantha charlotte Gordon & Canepari, 2014 dentipes group/bistripustulata group Brachiacantha barberi Gordon, 1985 (Barber's lady beetle) Brachiacantha bistripustulata (Fabricius, 1801) (decorated lady beetle) Brachiacantha dentipes (Fabricius, 1801) Brachiacantha erythrura (Mulsant, 1850) Brachiacantha robustihamata Nestor-Arriola & Toledo-Hernández, 2017 Brachiacantha subfasciata Mulsant, 1850 Brachiacantha truncata Nestor-Arriola & Toledo-Hernández, 2017 sellata group Brachiacantha sellata Mulsant, 1850 Brachiacantha bruchi Weise, 1904 Brachiacantha esther Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha pauline Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha emma Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha jamie Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha joanne Gordon & Canepari, 2014 juanita group Brachiacantha anita Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha aperta Weise, 1903 Brachiacantha armandi (Mulsant, 1850) Brachiacantha bipartita Mulsant, 1850 Brachiacantha cathy Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha darlene Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha dentata Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021 Brachiacantha hazel Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha juanita Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha lauren Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha loricata (Mulsant, 1850) Brachiacantha lynn Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha margaritae (Crotch, 1874) Brachiacantha regina Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha octopustulata (Fabricius, 1801) Brachiacantha octostigma Mulsant, 1850 Brachiacantha sally Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha veronica Gordon & Canepari, 2014 jill group Brachiacantha jill Gordon & Canepari, 2014 blandula group Brachiacantha blandula (Weise, 1902) Brachiacantha april Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha clara Gordon & Canepari, 2014 groendali group Brachiacantha groendali (Mulsant, 1850) Brachiacantha eva Gordon & Canepari, 2014 debbie group Brachiacantha debbie Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha monica Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha parva (Mulsant, 1850) Brachiacantha amber Gordon & Canepari, 2014 leslie group Brachiacantha leslie Gordon & Canepari, 2014 trimaculata group Brachiacantha trimaculata Leng, 1911 tucumanensis group Brachiacantha aurantiapleura Nestor-Arriola, Solís and Toledo-Hernández, 2021 Brachiacantha eleanor Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha isthmena Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021 Brachiacantha tucumanensis Weise, 1911 Brachiacantha valerie Gordon & Canepari, 2014 bahiensis group Brachiacantha bahiensis Brèthes, 1925 Brachiacantha pseudoarrowi Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha danielle Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha gail Gordon & Canepari, 2014 lepida group Brachiacantha fenestrata Gorham, 1894 Brachiacantha indubitabilis Crotch, 1873 Brachiacantha lepida Mulsant, 1850 Brachiacantha nubes Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021 ursina group Brachiacantha guatemalensis (Gorham, 1894) Brachiacantha ursina (Fabricius, 1787) (ursine spurleg lady beetle) invertita group Brachiacantha invertita Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021 cachensis group Brachiacantha cachensis Gorham, 1894 Brachiacantha gorhami (Weise, 1904) Brachiacantha hexaspina González, Větrovec and Nestor-Arriola, 2021 Brachiacantha mimica Nestor-Arriola and Toledo-Hernández, 2021 Brachiacantha papiliona Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021 Brachiacantha tica Nestor-Arriola, Toledo-Hernández and Solís, 2021 group unassigned/unknown Brachiacantha appropinquata (Mulsant, 1850) Brachiacantha argentinica (Weise, 1922) Brachiacantha bilineata Weise, 1902 Brachiacantha egae (Crotch, 1874) Brachiacantha sicardi Leng, 1911 Brachiacantha steineri Gordon & Canepari, 2014 Brachiacantha albifrons (Say, 1824) (white-fronted lady beetle) Brachiacantha arizonica Schaeffer, 1908 (Arizona lady beetle) Brachiacantha blaisdelli Nunenmacher, 1909 Brachiacantha bollii Crotch, 1873 (Boll's lady beetle) Brachiacantha decempustulata (Melsheimer, 1847) (ten-spotted spurleg) Brachiacantha felina (Fabricius, 1775) Brachiacantha floridensis Blatchley, 1916 Brachiacantha illustris Casey, 1899 Brachiacantha quadrillum LeConte, 1858 Brachiacantha quadripunctata Melsheimer, 1847 Brachiacantha querceti Schwarz, 1878 (oak lady beetle) Brachiacantha rotunda Gordon, 1985 Brachiacantha schwarzi Gordon, 1985 Brachiacantha soltaui Gordon, 1985 Brachiacantha stephani Gordon, 1985 (Stephan's lady beetle) Brachiacantha tau LeConte, 1859 (t-marked lady beetle) Brachiacantha testudo Casey, 1899 (turtle lady) Brachiacantha uteella Casey, 1908 Brachiacantha angulata Nestor-Arriola & Toledo-Hernández, 2017 Brachiacantha aymardi Gorham, 1894 Brachiacantha brevicuspidata Nestor-Arriola & Toledo-Hernández, 2017 Brachiacantha conjuncta Mulsant, 1850 Brachiacantha cryptocephalina Gorham, 1894 Brachiacantha distincta Nunenmacher, 1948 Brachiacantha mexicana Leng, 1911 Brachiacantha neglecta Nunenmacher, 1948 Brachiacantha octosignata Mader, 1958 Brachiacantha pygidialis Mulsant, 1850 Brachiacantha westwoodii Mulsant, 1850
Selected former species Brachiacantha brevihamata Nestor-Arriola & Toledo-Hernández, 2017
References
"The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico", Robert D. Gordon. 1985. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 93, No. 1. Belicek, Joseph (1976). "Coccinellidae of western Canada and Alaska with analyses of the transmontane zoogeographic relationships between the fauna of British Columbia and Alberta (Insecta: Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)". Quaestiones Entomologicae, vol. 12, no. 4, 283–409. Canepari, Claudio (1990). "Who is the author of several genera of Coccinellidae: CHEVROLAT or DEJEAN?". Coccinella, vol. 2, no. 1, 38–39. Duverger, Christian (2001). "Contribution à la connaissance des Hyperaspidinae (2ème note)". Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Bordeaux, vol. 29, no. 4, 221–228. 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. Montgomery, H. Wilson Jr., and Michael A. Goodrich (2002). "The Brachiacantha (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of Illinois". Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science, vol. 95, no. 2, 111–130. 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, Brachiacantha 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 . Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.