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Coccinella

Insecta - Coleoptera - Coccinellidae

Taxonomy

Coccinella was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Coccinellidae, Coccinellinae, Coccinellini.

It was assigned to Coleoptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Geoffroy (1762), Scopoli (1763), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Strøm (1768), Forster (1771), Müller (1776) and Latreille (1796); to Eleuterata by Fabricius (1775) and Fabricius (1798); to Tridigitati by Latreille (1802); to Coccinellidae by Scudder (1900); and to Coccinellini by Barševskis and Lazdāns (2010) and Bouchard et al. (2011).

Species

C. (Coccinella), C. (Spilota), C. amabilis, C. andromeda, C. antiqua, C. bituminosa, C. colorata, C. florissantensis, C. fossilis, C. heeri (syn. C. decempustulata), C. hesione, C. krantzi, C. perses, C. ponomarenkoi (syn. C. spectabilis), C. prisca, C. sodoma

Species lacking formal opinion data

C. wittsi

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Coccinella Linnaeus p. 364
1761	Coccinella Linnaeus p. 153
1762	Coccinella Geoffroy p. 318
1763	Coccinella Scopoli p. 71
1764	Coccinella Müller p. 5
1766	Coccinella Schaeffer
1767	Coccinella Linnaeus p. 579
1768	Coccinella Strøm p. 318
1771	Coccinella Forster p. 18
1775	Coccinella Fabricius p. 79
1776	Coccinella Müller p. 65
1796	Coccinella Latreille p. 67
1798	Coccinella Fabricius p. 76
1802	Coccinella Latreille p. 237
1900	Coccinella Scudder p. 79
2010	Coccinella Barševskis and Lazdāns
2011	Coccinella Bouchard et al. p. 376

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923

Rank	Name	Author
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
—	Coleopterida
order	Coleoptera
—	Mesocoleoptera
—	Metacoleoptera
suborder	Polyphaga	Emery 1886
infraorder	Cucujiformia	Lameere 1938
superfamily	Coccinelloidea
family	Coccinellidae
subfamily	Coccinellinae
tribe	Coccinellini
genus	Coccinella

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Coccinella Linnaeus 1758

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Subg. Coccinella (Coccinella) Linnaeus 1758

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Coccinella (Coccinella) septempunctata Linnaeus 1758

Subg. Coccinella (Spilota) Billberg 1820

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Coccinella (Spilota) undecimpunctata Linnaeus 1758

†Coccinella amabilis Heer 1864

†Coccinella andromeda Heer 1847

†Coccinella antiqua von Heyden 1862

†Coccinella bituminosa von Heyden and von Heyden 1866