Novius cardinalis

Novius cardinalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Coccinellidae
Subfamily: Ortaliinae
Tribe: Noviini
Genus: Novius
Species:
N. cardinalis
Binomial name
Novius cardinalis
(Mulsant, 1850)
Synonyms[1]
  • Vedalia cardinalis Mulsant, 1850
  • Rodolia cardinalis (Mulsant, 1850)
  • Rodolia aegyptiaca Sicard, 1907

Novius cardinalis (common names vedalia beetle[2] or cardinal ladybird)[3] is a species of ladybird beetle native to Australia.[2] It was formerly placed in the genus Rodolia, but that genus was synonymized under the genus Novius in 2020.[4]

  1. ^ "Rodolia cardinalis (Mulsant, 1850)". GBIF. Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  2. ^ a b "Vedalia Beetle, Rodolia cardinalis". www.nysaes.cornell.edu Cornell. 2008-01-30. Archived from the original on 2013-06-06. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
  3. ^ "Atlas of Living Australia - Rodolia cardinalis (Mulsant, 1850) Cardinal Ladybird". Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  4. ^ Pang, H., Tang, X.-F., Booth, R.G., Vandenberg, N., Forrester, J., Mchugh, J., & Ślipiński, A. (2020) Revision of the Australian Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Genus Novius Mulsant of Tribe Noviini. Annales Zoologici 70 (1):1–24. https://doi.org/10.3161/00034541ANZ2020.70.1.001