Coccinellid beetles are predaceous on various insect pests such as aphids, mealy bugs, scale insects, mites, whiteflies and some other soft bodied insects. Literature review shows that they show significant role in control of agricultural horticultural pests. Most the coccinellid species predatory nature considered benignant. This reveals work done diversity highlights bio agents

this paper is an attempt to fill all of previous literature of coccinellidae records and species distribution in different provinces of iran. distribution was extracted for each species from literatures. there are 6 subfamilies, 16 tribes, 32 genus and 117 species in iran. the largest subfamily, tribe and genus in iran were scymninae, scymnini and scymnus, respectively. the most distribution wa...