Ladybird Beetles of the Australo-Pacific Region

Adam Slipinski completed his PhD and DSc in Poland, where he worked for 20 years at the Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw; he also held a joint appointment as Professor of Biology at the University of Zielona Gora. He is currently working as a Senior Principal Research Scientist and curator at the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO. He is the author of nearly 200 research publications and multiple book chapters, and author of four books on the phylogeny and classification of various beetles. Jiahui Li earned his PhD in Zoology from Sun Yat-sen University in 2010. He worked on the systematics of true ladybird beetles (Coccinellidae: Coccinellini) at the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, as a visiting student from 2008 to 2010. He has been a Lecturer at the Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry of Hainan University, China, since 2011, where he has continued his research on ladybird beetles in collaboration with Adam Slipinski. Hong Pang holds a PhD in Entomology from the South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou. In the last 20 years, she has worked at the State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, and held positions of Professor of Entomology in the School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, and Director at the Museum of Biology. She is the author of about 200 research publications on the taxonomy and systematics of insects and population genomics of ladybird beetles and two books on Chinese Coccinellidae.

Abstract
Preface and acknowledgements
Material and Methods

Introduction
The Coccinellini
1. Morphology
2. Biology
3. Economic importance

Classification of Australo-Pacific Coccinellini
Keys to identification of Australo-Pacific genera of Coccinellini
Keys to identification of Australian species of Coccinellini
Review of the Australo-Pacific Coccinellini

Bibliography
Colour Plates
Index of scientific names