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Species Nephus sordidus - Little Brown Mealybug Destroyer

Predator of vine mealybug - Nephus sordidus Scymninae? - Nephus sordidus Scymninae? - Nephus sordidus Coccinellidae?-1 (1 of 4) - Nephus sordidus Nephus (Scymnobius) sordidus (Horn) - Nephus sordidus Nephus sordidus Nephus sordidus ? - Nephus sordidus Nephus sordidus ? - Nephus sordidus
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 Nephus
Species sordidus (Little Brown Mealybug Destroyer)
Other Common Names
sordid ladybug (1)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Scymnus sordidus Horn 1895
Explanation of Names
Nephus (Scymnobius) sordidus (Horn)
Identification
apex of elytron with dark brown area extending forward along suture and along lateral border, sutural margin obscurely darker that rest of elytron(2)
Range
w.NA to OK‒TX [map(3)(BG data)
Works Cited
1.Ladybugs of Alberta
John Acorn. 2007. University of Alberta Press, 169 pages.
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.