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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Coccinellinae » Coelophora » Variable Lady Beetle (Coelophora inaequalis)

Species Coelophora inaequalis - Variable Lady Beetle

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Season · Remarks · Works Cited

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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 Coccinellinae

Genus Coelophora

Species inaequalis (Variable Lady Beetle)

Other Common Names

Common Australian Ladybird (bit of a misnomer; only common in a certain part of Australia, and one of hundreds of species there!)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Coelophora inaequalis (Fabricius)

Orig. Comb: Coccinella inaequalis Fabricius 1775

Numbers

1 Nearctic sp. (adventive)

Identification

Gordon's Figures - (1)

Range

coastal peninsular FL - Map (2)(3) / Puerto Rico; native to Old World Tropics, including Africa, Asia and Australia (4)

Season

year round in FL (BG data)

Remarks

Introduced to Florida from Hawaii via Puerto Rico to control the yellow sugarcane aphid - Sipha flava (Forbes). (2)

Works Cited

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

2.	A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida. Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

4.	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.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 26 January, 2005 - 11:48pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Harsi S. Parker, James Bailey, Abigail Parker
Last updated 22 April, 2024 - 12:41pm

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