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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Coccinellinae » Harmonia » Asian Lady Beetle (Harmonia axyridis) » with Laboulbeniales fungus (Harmonia axyridis with Laboulbeniales fungus)
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Big lady - Harmonia axyridis
Copyright © 2011 R. Berg

Big lady - Harmonia axyridis
Oakland, Alameda County, California, USA
November 27, 2011
Size: 7.9 mm bl
Found on a concrete structure near Temescal Creek, afternoon. Besides the small insect or exoskeleton stuck to its face, it had a patch of something--fungus?--near the lower edge of its pronotum.

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Contributed by R. Berg on 27 November, 2011 - 8:59pm
Last updated 23 December, 2011 - 11:42am

Moved to the fungus section
Moved from Coccinellinae. There are already two pages of these, but none yet from California. Frassable if location is unimportant.
… R. Berg, 23 December, 2011 - 11:42am login or register to post comments

H. axyridis, probably with Laboulbeniales fungus
The shape is all H. axyridis: square "shoulders," explanate (flared) rear end. The patch on the pronotum looks like traces of Laboulbeniales fungus, which seems to be more common on H. axyridis than any other species (although it does occur on other species occasionally).
… Abigail Parker, 23 December, 2011 - 10:42am login or register to post comments

Another H. axyridis?
Isn't the rule that if it's a big Coccinellini with a strange color pattern you don't recognize it's pretty safe to assume HA?

Looks kinda like this one:

Anyone want to confirm/rebuke me?
… Tommy McElrath, 13 December, 2011 - 10:17am login or register to post comments

 
It probably is
but it might be of interest for the patch of something on the pronotum.
… R. Berg, 13 December, 2011 - 11:38am login or register to post comments

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