List of ladybirds/Coccinellidae in Ukraine

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Hi everyone, this is a strange question but I’ve got a podcast about ladybirds and I’m trying to research an episode discussing ladybirds in Ukraine. I’m having difficulty finding a list of species as I would like to be able to say definitively the number of Coccinellidae species found in the country. If someone is able to tell me where i could find this (preferably in English) that would be great, or at least a list by genus of where these ladybirds are found.

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It’s probably not what you are asking for, but just in case you are not aware: you can easily get a list of those found on iNat: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=8860&subview=table&taxon_id=48486&view=species

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Hi :) Yes I looked at that but I don’t know if it is likely to be accurate since eg Germany has around 83 different species of ladybirds and yet in Ukraine there were only 47 listed - in Europe as a whole there are apparently 207. https://www.kerbtier.de/cgi-bin/deFSearch.cgi?Fam=Coccinellidae

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One could also look at GBIF, e.g. https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/taxonomy?country=UA&has_coordinate=true&has_geospatial_issue=false&taxon_key=7782&occurrence_status=present

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there is one for Latvia
https://www.academia.edu/4702615/CATALOGUE_OF_LADYBIRDS_COLEOPTERA_COCCINELLIDAE_OF_LATVIA
otherwise I know the one in Lobl-Smetana vol. IV, not very easy to use. Let me know if you don’t find anthing better.

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Have a look at this:
PESI portal - Search (eu-nomen.eu)

Suggests 80 species

There might be a few others, but you can just change the search parameter that is currently ‘Present’ to ‘introduced’, or other categories
EDIT:
actually there’s only 4 more, in the ‘doubtful’ category, and none in any other category. So that should give you 84 species total
PESI portal - Search (eu-nomen.eu)

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Thanks, this is great!!

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Thanks so much, this is all really useful stuff. I guess inconspicuous ladybirds are usually underrecorded so there may be more out there we don’t know about.

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