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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Scymninae » Hyperaspidini » Sigil Lady Beetles (Hyperaspis) » Hyperaspis bolteri

Species Hyperaspis bolteri

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Hyperaspis bolteri LeConte - Hyperaspis bolteri

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 Hyperaspidini

Genus Hyperaspis (Sigil Lady Beetles)

Species bolteri (Hyperaspis bolteri)

Explanation of Names

Hyperaspis bolteri LeConte, 1880

Patronym for Andreas Bolter, 19th-century insect collector who assembled one of the largest private collections of beetles in the world.

Numbers

94 spp. n. of Mex. (1)

Size

3.0 - 3.25 mm (2)

Identification

Gordon's figures - "The highly distinctive color pattern and extremely dull pronotal surface characterize this species." (2)

Range

KS-MO-IL-IN - Map (2) (MO record, posted here, appears to be a new state record)

Habitat

collected in a native tallgrass prairie in Missouri (BG data)

Season

short series collected April 29-June 4 in northern Illinois (3)

Remarks

Type Locality: Illinois

See Also

H. bolteri LeConte seems to have no affinities with other Hyperaspis spp. (2)

Print References

LeConte, J.L. 1880. Short studies of North American Coleoptera. Transactions of the American. Entomological Society 8: 163–218.

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

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.

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

3.	An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Blatchley, W. S. 1910. Indianapolis,Nature Pub. Co.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 4 April, 2013 - 11:56am
Last updated 2 February, 2022 - 11:01pm

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