Tytthaspis

Taxobox | name = "Tytthaspis"

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image_width = 220px
image_caption = "Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Coleoptera
familia = Coccinellidae
subfamilia = Coccinellinae
genus = "Tytthaspis"
genus_authority = Crotch, 1874

"Tytthaspis" are a genus of ladybird beetles. They have comb-like structures on their mandibles with which they gather fungal spores [A.F.G.Dixon. Insect Predator-Prey Dynamics: Ladybird Beetles and Biological Control.Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005] .The genus contains two subgenera ("Barovskia" and "Tytthaspis") and the following species:

*"Tytthaspis gebleri" (="Tytthaspis lineola")
*"Tytthaspis phalerata"
*"Tytthaspis sedecimguttata"
*"Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata" (="Tytthaspis 16-punctata")
*"Tytthaspis 19-guttata"
*"Tytthaspis trilineata" (see "Coccinella nigrovittata")
*"Tytthaspis univittata" (see "Pseudoverania univittata")

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