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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Coccinellinae » Macronaemia » Episcopal Lady Beetle (Macronaemia episcopalis)

Species Macronaemia episcopalis - Episcopal Lady Beetle

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Print References · Works Cited
Episcopalian Ladybird - Macronaemia episcopalis Episcopal Lady Beetle? - Macronaemia episcopalis Episcopal Lady Beetle? - Macronaemia episcopalis Episcopal Lady Beetle - Macronaemia episcopalis Episcopal Lady Beetle - Macronaemia episcopalis Macronaemia episcopalis (Kirby) - Macronaemia episcopalis Macronaemia episcopalis (Kirby) - Macronaemia episcopalis Macronaemia episcopalis? - Macronaemia episcopalis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Coccinelloidea
No Taxon (Coccinellid group)
Family Coccinellidae (Lady Beetles)
Subfamily Coccinellinae
Genus Macronaemia
Species episcopalis (Episcopal Lady Beetle)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Macronaemia episcopalis (Kirby)
Orig. Comb: Coccinella episcopalis Kirby, 1837
Explanation of Names
From episcopus (“bishop”)
Size
Length 3.25 to 4.0 mm (1)
Identification
Gordon's figures - Color yellow with head black except frons and clypeus yellow; 3 black vittae on elytron, sutural vitta narrow (1)
Range
CA-NM-NY-AK - Map (1),(BG data)
Habitat
mostly in marshes (2)
Season
May-July (BG data)
Print References
Kirby, W. 1837. In: Fauna Boreali-Americana by Sir J. Richardson et al., 1829-1837. The Insects. Part 4. London, 325 pp.
Works Cited
1.The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico
Robert D. Gordon. 1985. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 93, No. 1.
2.Ladybugs of Alberta
John Acorn. 2007. University of Alberta Press, 169 pages.
Contributed by Boris Büche on 28 January, 2009 - 4:06pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Denis Doucet, v belov, Abigail Parker
Last updated 22 April, 2016 - 7:39am

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