''Novius'' is a genus of

ladybird beetle Coccinellidae () is a widespread family of small beetles ranging in size from . They are commonly known as ladybugs in North America and ladybirds in Great Britain. Some entomologists prefer the names ladybird beetles or lady beetles as they ...

s belonging to the family

Coccinellidae Coccinellidae () is a widespread family of small beetles ranging in size from . They are commonly known as ladybugs in North America and ladybirds in Great Britain. Some entomologists prefer the names ladybird beetles or lady beetles as they ...

, and the sole member of the tribe Noviini. The genus as presently defined contains over 70 species, most of which were formerly placed in the genera ''Rodolia'' and ''Anovia'', but after decades of debate, both of these genera are now considered to be junior synonyms of ''Novius''.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

Description

''Novius'' species have a semispherical body, covered with dense, short hairs. They are reddish-purple, with or without black spots. Coccinelliidae - Rodolia species

''Novius'' species regularly feed on

scale insect Scale insects are small insects of the order Hemiptera, suborder Sternorrhyncha. Of dramatically variable appearance and extreme sexual dimorphism, they comprise the infraorder Coccomorpha which is considered a more convenient grouping than the ...

s, aphids and small

mite Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods). Mites span two large orders of arachnids, the Acariformes and the Parasitiformes, which were historically grouped together in the subclass Acari, but genetic analysis does not show clear evid ...

s, which makes them candidates as biological control agents. One such species used in biocontrol is ''

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

'', introduced worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions, and now effectively cosmopolitan. Other species have been introduced in more restricted areas (e.g.,

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), though always for the biological control of pest insects.

Species

* '' Novius alluaudi'' (Sicard, 1909) * '' Novius amabilis'' (Kapur, 1949) * '' Novius andamanicus'' (Weise, 1901) * '' Novius apicalis'' (Sicard, 1909) * '' Novius argodi'' (Sicard, 1909) * '' Novius bellus'' Blackburn, 1889 * '' Novius breviusculus'' (Weise, 1892) * '' Novius canariensis'' Korschefsky, 1931 * ''

Novius capucinus Novius may refer to: *Decimus Junius Novius Priscus, consul of the Roman Empire in 78 *Quintus Novius, Roman dramatist of the first century BCE *Tiberius Claudius Novius Tiberius Claudius Novius ( grc, Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Νούιος ...

'' (Fürsch, 1975) * ''

'' (Mulsant, 1850) - Vedalia beetle * '' Novius chapaensis'' (Hoang, 1980) * '' Novius cinctipennis'' (Weise, 1912) * '' Novius circumclusus'' (Gorham, 1899) * ''

Novius concolor Novius may refer to: *Decimus Junius Novius Priscus, consul of the Roman Empire in 78 *Quintus Novius, Roman dramatist of the first century BCE *Tiberius Claudius Novius Tiberius Claudius Novius ( grc, Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Νούιος ...

'' (Lewis, 1879) * ''

Novius conicollis Novius may refer to: *Decimus Junius Novius Priscus, consul of the Roman Empire in 78 *Quintus Novius, Roman dramatist of the first century BCE *Tiberius Claudius Novius Tiberius Claudius Novius ( grc, Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Νούιος ...

'' Korschefsky, 1931 * ''

Novius contrarius Novius may refer to: *Decimus Junius Novius Priscus, consul of the Roman Empire in 78 *Quintus Novius, Roman dramatist of the first century BCE *Tiberius Claudius Novius Tiberius Claudius Novius ( grc, Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Νούιος ...

'' (Sicard, 1931) * ''

Novius cruentatus Novius may refer to: *Decimus Junius Novius Priscus, consul of the Roman Empire in 78 *Quintus Novius, Roman dramatist of the first century BCE *Tiberius Claudius Novius Tiberius Claudius Novius ( grc, Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Νούιος ...

'' Mulsant, 1846 * ''

Novius delobeli Novius may refer to: *Decimus Junius Novius Priscus, consul of the Roman Empire in 78 *Quintus Novius, Roman dramatist of the first century BCE *Tiberius Claudius Novius Tiberius Claudius Novius ( grc, Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Νούιος ...

'' (Chazeau, 1981) * ''

Novius fausti Novius may refer to: *Decimus Junius Novius Priscus, consul of the Roman Empire in 78 *Quintus Novius, Roman dramatist of the first century BCE *Tiberius Claudius Novius Tiberius Claudius Novius ( grc, Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Νούιος ...

'' (Weise, 1885) * ''

Novius ferrugineus Novius may refer to: *Decimus Junius Novius Priscus, consul of the Roman Empire in 78 *Quintus Novius, Roman dramatist of the first century BCE *Tiberius Claudius Novius Tiberius Claudius Novius ( grc, Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Νούιος ...

'' (Weise, 1900) * ''

Novius formosanus Novius may refer to: *Decimus Junius Novius Priscus, consul of the Roman Empire in 78 *Quintus Novius, Roman dramatist of the first century BCE *Tiberius Claudius Novius Tiberius Claudius Novius ( grc, Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Νούιος ...

'' (Korschefsky, 1935) * ''

Novius fulvescens Novius may refer to: *Decimus Junius Novius Priscus, consul of the Roman Empire in 78 *Quintus Novius, Roman dramatist of the first century BCE *Tiberius Claudius Novius Tiberius Claudius Novius ( grc, Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Νούιος ...

'' (Hoang, 1980) * ''

Novius fumidus Novius may refer to: *Decimus Junius Novius Priscus, consul of the Roman Empire in 78 *Quintus Novius, Roman dramatist of the first century BCE *Tiberius Claudius Novius Tiberius Claudius Novius ( grc, Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Νούιος ...

'' (Mulsant, 1850) * '' Novius hauseri'' Mader, 1930 * '' Novius iceryae'' (Janson, 1889) * '' Novius insularis'' (Weise, 1895) * '' Novius koebelei'' Olliff, 1892 * '' Novius limbatus'' Motschulsky, 1866 * ''

Novius lindi Novius may refer to: *Decimus Junius Novius Priscus, consul of the Roman Empire in 78 *Quintus Novius, Roman dramatist of the first century BCE *Tiberius Claudius Novius, leading statesman of Athens 41-61 *River Nith, in Scotland; ''Novius'' in Lat ...

'' Blackburn, 1889 * '' Novius lydiae'' (Chazeau, 1991) * '' Novius manganensis'' (Singh, 2014) * '' Novius marek'' Ślipiński & Pang, 2020 * '' Novius marginatus'' (Bielawski, 1960) * '' Novius mayottensis'' (Fürsch, 2003) * '' Novius mexicanus'' (Gordon, 1972) * '' Novius minimus'' (Kapur, 1949) * '' Novius minutus'' (Sicard, 1909) * ''

Novius netara Novius may refer to: *Decimus Junius Novius Priscus, consul of the Roman Empire in 78 *Quintus Novius, Roman dramatist of the first century BCE *Tiberius Claudius Novius, leading statesman of Athens 41-61 *River Nith The River Nith ( gd, Abhai ...

'' (Kapur, 1949) * '' Novius niger'' (Fürsch, 1995) * '' Novius nigerrimus'' Fürsch, 1960 * '' Novius nigrofrontalis'' (Kapur, 1951) * ''

Novius obscuricollis Novius may refer to: *Decimus Junius Novius Priscus, consul of the Roman Empire in 78 *Quintus Novius, Roman dramatist of the first century BCE *Tiberius Claudius Novius, leading statesman of Athens 41-61 *River Nith, in Scotland; ''Novius'' in Lat ...

'' (Sicard, 1931) * '' Novius occidentalis'' (Weise, 1898) * '' Novius octoguttatus'' (Weise, 1910) * '' Novius parvulus'' (Kirsch & Mitteil, 1875) * '' Novius peruvianus'' (Gordon, 1972) * '' Novius picicollis'' (Weise, 1900) * '' Novius podagricus'' (Weise, 1908) * '' Novius pronuba'' (Chazeau, 1991) * '' Novius prosternalis'' (Sicard, 1909) * '' Novius pumila'' (Weise, 1892) * ''

Novius punctigera Novius may refer to: *Decimus Junius Novius Priscus, consul of the Roman Empire in 78 *Quintus Novius, Roman dramatist of the first century BCE *Tiberius Claudius Novius, leading statesman of Athens 41-61 *River Nith The River Nith ( gd, Abhai ...

'' (Weise, 1901) * '' Novius punicus'' (Gordon, 1972) * '' Novius quadrimaculatus'' (Mader, 1939) * '' Novius quadriplagiatus'' (Sicard, 1909) * '' Novius quadrispilotus'' (Sicard, 1909) * '' Novius rubeus'' (Mulsant, 1850) * '' Novius ruficollis'' (Mulsant, 1850) * '' Novius rufipennis'' (Pic, 1926) * '' Novius rufocincta'' (Lewis, 1896) * '' Novius rufopilosus'' (Mulsant, 1850) * '' Novius sanguinolentus'' Mulsant, 1850 * '' Novius seabrai'' (Sicard, 1921) * '' Novius senegalensis'' (Weise, 1913) * ''

Novius sexmaculatus Novius may refer to: *Decimus Junius Novius Priscus, consul of the Roman Empire in 78 * Quintus Novius, Roman dramatist of the first century BCE * Tiberius Claudius Novius, leading statesman of Athens 41-61 *River Nith The River Nith ( gd, Abh ...

'' (Korschefsky, 1940) * ''

Novius sexnotatus Novius may refer to: *Decimus Junius Novius Priscus, consul of the Roman Empire in 78 *Quintus Novius, Roman dramatist of the first century BCE *Tiberius Claudius Novius, leading statesman of Athens 41-61 *River Nith The River Nith ( gd, Abhai ...

'' (Mulsant, 1850) * '' Novius shuiro'' (Kitano, 2014) * '' Novius songchuanus'' (Hoang, 1980) * '' Novius tamdaoanus'' (Hoang, 1980) * '' Novius usambaricus'' (Weise, 1898) * '' Novius virginalis'' (Wickham, 1905) * '' Novius vulpinus'' (Fürsch, 1974) * '' Novius weisei'' (Gordon, 1972) * '' Novius westermanni'' (Crotch, 1874) * '' Novius xianfengensis'' (Xiao, 1992) * '' Novius yemenensis'' Raimundo & Fürsch, 2006

References

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