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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Stethorus - Spider Mite Destroyers

Tiny Black Beetle - Stethorus punctillum Beetle - Stethorus punctum Scymnus or Stethorus - Stethorus punctum beetle  - Stethorus Stethorus? - Stethorus Beetle - Stethorus punctillum Beetle - Stethorus punctum dusky ladybug in spider mite web on Quercus macrocarpa - Stethorus
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 Scymninae
Genus Stethorus (Spider Mite Destroyers)
Explanation of Names
Stethorus Weise 1885
Numbers
5 spp. in our area(1), ~50 total
Range
worldwide
Food
Spider mites(1)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.