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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Coccinellinae » Calvia » Cream-spotted Lady Beetle (Calvia quatuordecimguttata)

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Copyright © 2012 Matthew Bowser

Coccinellid - Calvia quatuordecimguttata

Soldotna, Headquarters Lake, Kenai Peninsula Borough County, Alaska, USA
May 19, 2012

Specimen record: http://arctos.database.museum/guid/KNWR:Ento:8348

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Contributed by Matthew Bowser on 1 June, 2012 - 2:04pm
Last updated 16 October, 2014 - 10:32am

Thanks!

Thank you for taking the time to identify this. I had not seen one with a pattern like this.

-Matt

… Matthew Bowser, 1 June, 2012 - 7:01pm

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Calvia spp. can have mixed patterns

It's pretty rare for multiple pattern variations to show up on the same beetle - this one is a combination of at least 3, the typical cream-spotted that's half-confluent with a bit of melanic red-spotted for good measure! I've seen C. 14-guttata with two patterns before, but never 3. Definitely an unusual and interesting beetle!

… Abigail Parker, 2 June, 2012 - 1:42pm

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Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… Abigail Parker, 1 June, 2012 - 3:14pm

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weird... must be Calvia quatuordecimguttata var.

… v belov, 1 June, 2012 - 2:53pm

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doesn't match any other Calvia spp. from Russia

Just found this page on Russian coccinellids, and none of the other Calvia spp. there looks like this. (Nor any other Tribe Coccinellini spp.)
http://www.zin.ru/ANIMALIA/COLEOPTERA/rus/atl_coc.htm

I've seen some really bizarre mixed-pattern C. 14-guttata before from North America, that's why this reads as C. 14-guttata for me.

… Abigail Parker, 1 June, 2012 - 3:06pm

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pretty sure this is it.

what about

… v belov, 1 June, 2012 - 3:08pm

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those two are Neoharmonia venusta

Nice variants!

… Abigail Parker, 1 June, 2012 - 3:11pm

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wow! - I'll work on it!

It doesn't leap out at me as one of the native North American species, but could possibly be a variation of Calvia quatuordecimguttata. I'm going to check some Asian references and see if it looks like anything from Siberia.

… Abigail Parker, 1 June, 2012 - 2:52pm

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:) 14-g was my first instinct, too

logical

… v belov, 1 June, 2012 - 2:55pm

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