Subspecies Neoharmonia venusta venusta

Classification · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · See Also · Print References · Works Cited

V-marked Lady Beetle - Neoharmonia venusta

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

Superfamily Cucujoidea (Flower, Flat Bark and Ladybird Beetles)

Family Coccinellidae (Lady Beetles)

Subfamily Coccinellinae

Genus Neoharmonia

Species venusta (V-marked Lady Beetle)

Subspecies venusta (Neoharmonia venusta venusta)

Numbers

One of two North American subspecies of Neoharmonia venusta.

Size

Length 4.50 to 7.00 mm(1)

Range

Eastern U.S. and Canada; not west of eastern Texas.

Food

Soft-bodied insects and larvae; perhaps scale insects.(1)

According to a 1982 article, they are "major predators of larvae and pupae of the willow leaf beetle Plagiodera versicolora (Laicharteg) in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States." (See Print References, below)

See Also

The other subspecies, Neoharmonia venusta ampla, occurs in the southwestern U.S. and Texas, with very little range overlap.

Print References

Gordon, 1985, especially pp. 834-839, figures 673, 667-668.(1)

D. R. Whitehead and R. M. Duffield. "An Unusual Specialized Predator Prey Association (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae, Chrysomelidae): Failure of a Chemical Defense and Possible Practical Application." The Coleopterists Bulletin, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Mar., 1982), pp. 96-97

Works Cited

1.	The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico (Journal of the New York Entomological Society) Vol. 93, No. 1 (1985) By Robert D. Gordon

Contributed by Abigail M. Parker on 19 September, 2009 - 1:52pm

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