Trophic Relations Of Lady Beetles (coleoptera, Coccinellidae) Of The Urals
Abstract
Z. I. Tyumaseva, E. V. Guskova
The article contains the study of the trophic relations of the lady beetles living in the Urals. The study allocates three ecological groups depending on the peculiarities of the beetles and larvae nutrition: phytophages, micetophages, and entomophages-predators. We have revealed 66 species of lady birds-predators and two species-phytophages: Subcoccinella vigintiquatuorpunctata (Linnaeus, 1758) and Bulaea lichatschovii (Hummel, 1827). In the group of obligatory micetophages in the Urals we registered the representatives of the tribe Halyziini, it is Halyzia sedecimguttata (Linnaeus, 1758) and Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata (Linnaeus, 1758).
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