First Confirmed Locality Record of Ladybird Beetle Synona melanopepla (Mulsant, 1850) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from Nepal

Sushila Bajracharya; Suraj Baral; Prakash Gaudel; Bimal Raj Shrestha

doi:10.51963/jers.v26i1.2464

First Confirmed Locality Record of Ladybird Beetle Synona melanopepla (Mulsant, 1850) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from Nepal

Authors

Sushila Bajracharya Biodiversity Research and Conservation Society https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7916-6860
Suraj Baral https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6816-7355
Prakash Gaudel https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3749-3454
Bimal Raj Shrestha https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7043-6553

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51963/jers.v26i1.2464

Abstract

Synona melanopepla (Mulsant, 1850) is a ladybird beetle belonging to the subfamily Coccinellinae of the family Coccinellidae. This species has been confirmed for the first time from Nepal through this study. A single specimen of this species was collected from Ranibari Community Forest, Kathmandu, Nepal.

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27.03.2024

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Bajracharya, S., Baral, S., Gaudel, P., & Raj Shrestha, B. (2024). First Confirmed Locality Record of Ladybird Beetle Synona melanopepla (Mulsant, 1850) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from Nepal. Journal of the Entomological Research Society, 26(1), 27–31. https://doi.org/10.51963/jers.v26i1.2464

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Vol. 26 No. 1 (2024): Journal of the Entomological Research Society

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Journal of the Entomological Research Society