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Northward expansion and climatic factors affecting the distribution limits of Cheilomenes sexmaculata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Japan

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The distributional expansion of the ladybird beetle Cheilomenes sexmaculata (Fabricius) in Japan was analyzed based on literature surveys and observations of 1,312 individual specimens collected from 1918 to 2005. An expansion toward higher latitudes, from Kyushu (33°N) to central Honshu (36°N), was observed between 1910 and the early 1990s. Multiple regression analysis showed that the presence of this beetle was associated with an annual mean temperature but not with the mean minimum temperature in the coldest month, and 95 % occurrence probability of this beetle was obtained in a locality at 15.1 °C annual mean temperature. The northward expansion of this species synchronizes with increasing areas where an annual mean temperature is more than 15 °C. Therefore, climatic warming over the past 100 years is considered as a major factor influencing the northward expansion of this species.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Dr. K. Araya (Kyushu University), Dr. T. Tanabe (Kumamoto University), Dr. M. Hasegawa (Osaka Museum of Natural History), and Dr. M. Yokogawa (Osaka Museum of Natural History) who provided helpful discussions. We would also like to express our special thanks to Dr. S. Nomura (National Museum of Nature and Science), Dr. Y. Sawada (Museum of Nature and Human Activities Hyogo), Mr. R. Matsumoto (Osaka Museum of Natural History), Dr. Y. Okushima (Kurashiki Museum of Natural History), Prof. M. Sakai (Ehime University), Mr. K. Kishimoto (Ehime University), Prof. H. Kojima (Tokyo University of Agriculture), and Mr. D. Yamaguchi (Kyushu University) for their help in studying the museum specimens, as well as Mr. Y. Matsubara (Yokohama City) and Mr. Y. Hirano (Odawara City) for allowing us to examine their private C. sexmaculata collections.

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  1. Osaka Museum of Natural History, Osaka, Osaka, 546-0034, Japan

    Yasuko Kawakami

  2. Osaka City Institute of Public Health and Environmental Sciences, Osaka, Osaka, 543-0026, Japan

    Kazuo Yamazaki

  3. Honmachi, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0021, Japan

    Kazunori Ohashi

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Kawakami, Y., Yamazaki, K. & Ohashi, K. Northward expansion and climatic factors affecting the distribution limits of Cheilomenes sexmaculata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Japan. Appl Entomol Zool 49, 59–66 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13355-013-0224-0

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