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Kidney-spotted Lady Beetle (Psyllobora renifer)
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Copyright © 2013
Betsy Betros
Psyllobora - Fungus-eating Lady Beetles? -
Psyllobora renifer
Lenexa, Johnson County, Kansas, USA
October 2, 2013
Size: ~2.5 mm
Came to a MVL/blacklight setup in a woodland by a tall grass prairie remnant.
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Contributed by
Betsy Betros
on 3 October, 2013 - 8:48pm
Last updated 19 March, 2019 - 6:48pm
Moved
Moved from
Twenty-Spotted Lady Beetle
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James Bailey
, 19 March, 2019 - 6:48pm
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Thanks!
Thanks!
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Betsy Betros
, 19 March, 2019 - 7:04pm
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I'm quite convinced this is renifer
but let's move to genus for now.
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James Bailey
, 22 June, 2016 - 1:25pm
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The following year
I had an image ID'd as renifer the next year, it sure looks like this one. Can you revisit it, thanks!
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1022044
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Betsy Betros
, 17 March, 2019 - 6:05pm
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Fascinating!
I've seen and photographed several of these tiny ones this year. I will need to blow them up on the big computer screen and check them out!
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Betsy Betros
, 22 June, 2016 - 1:29pm
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Range extension?
Renifer was thought to be very uncommon, but in recent years it has been found in many regions, sometimes in abundance.
Visually this is a perfect Psyllobora renifer, in elytral pattern, and in the pronotum. I have not seen any evidence that 20-maculata can ever have this appearance. They can be confluent, sometimes heavily so, but the method in which the markings have formed here is not very suggestive of that species.
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James Bailey
, 20 January, 2016 - 2:47pm
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Range extension
I did think this looked a lot like P. renifer, and a range extension would not surprise me at all. Even in as short a time as the past 7 years that I've been studying coccinellids here, BG records have shown that species from more southern/southwestern and arid areas have been extending their ranges northward and eastward. (Chilocorus cacti is one obvious eastward-moving example, there are BG records from Florida.)
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Abigail Parker
, 22 January, 2016 - 5:14pm
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Moved
Moved from
Fungus-eating Lady Beetles
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Betsy Betros
, 5 October, 2013 - 10:24pm
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yes - P. vigintimaculata
Very confluent, but it has to be P. 20-maculata, that's the only sp. of Psyllobora in your area.
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Abigail Parker
, 4 October, 2013 - 2:05pm
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