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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Scymninae » Dusky Lady Beetles (Scymnini) » Scymnus » pronotum all orange (Scymnus pronotum all orange) » Scymnus cervicalis

Species Scymnus cervicalis

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited

Scymnus cervicalis - Scymnus cervicalis - female

lady beetle - Scymnus cervicalis - female

Scymnus cervicalis Mulsant - Scymnus cervicalis

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

Tribe Scymnini (Dusky Lady Beetles)

Genus Scymnus

No Taxon (pronotum all orange)

Species cervicalis (Scymnus cervicalis)

Other Common Names

"Red-neck Lady"

Explanation of Names

Scymnus cervicalis Mulsant, 1850

cervicalis (L). 'beautiful neck' (1)

Size

1.71 to 2.30 mm (2)

Identification

last couplet in Gordon: "Form rounded, sides of elytra not parallel; lateral prenatal margin continuous with lateral margin of elytron; male with last sternum distinctly impressed" (3)

The prosternal carinae of S. cervicalis extend to the anterior margin of the prosternum. In the very similar S. kansanus, the prosternal carinae converge and meet before attaining the anterior margin of the prosternum.

Range

e. US to s. CA (TX-FL-MA-IA, AZ, CA) - Map (3)

Remarks

Only one spmn coll. during two summers of arboreal sampling in w. Austin (4)

See Also

Scymnus kansanus Casey

- Range: TX-SC-QC-NE - Map

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

2.	The Scymnini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the United States & Canada: Key to genera and revision of Scymnus, Nephus, & Diomus Robert D. Gordon. 1976. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Buffalo, NY, Vol 28.

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

4.	Abundance and distribution of potential arthropod prey species in a typical Golden-cheeked Warbler habitat. Quinn, M.A. 2000. Unpublished Thesis. Texas A&M University, College Station. ix + 182 pp.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 8 January, 2013 - 4:19pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd
Last updated 22 February, 2024 - 2:16am

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