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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Coccinellinae » Olla » Ashy Gray Lady Beetle (Olla v-nigrum)
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Please help us to identify this guy. - Olla v-nigrum
Copyright © 2017 Andrew Kahl

Please help us to identify this guy. - Olla v-nigrum
Comstock, Val Verde County, Texas, USA
August 23, 2016
Size: ~4mm
1. This Ladybug was found in the area densely covered with Texas Cenizo (Leucophyllum frutescens), which happened blooming profusely at that time.

2. The white crescent on the head lateral view is not an artifact. Unfortunately, I do not have the head frontal view.t

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Please help us to identify this guy. - Olla v-nigrum Please help us to identify this guy. - Olla v-nigrum
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Contributed by Andrew Kahl on 15 June, 2017 - 3:11pm
Last updated 16 June, 2017 - 9:01pm

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Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 16 June, 2017 - 9:01pm login or register to post comments

Olla it is
You could have convinced me it was Axion on the first photo alone, but the second photo has a couple of clues to its true identity. First the white lateral marking on the pronotum, but also a head that certainly does not belong to Axion. The pronotum itself is just a little incorrectly shaped for Axion, although I wouldn't have noticed if it weren't for these other two traits!

For future reference, the best features that would have made this ID easier would be seeing the antennae, and the colouration on the underside of the beetle.

(This is darker than typical for Olla, but not that unusual)
… James Bailey, 16 June, 2017 - 7:34pm login or register to post comments

Twice-stabbed Lady Beetle?
Chilocorus stigma? They do range to TX and the size is right.
… Maggie Furtak, 16 June, 2017 - 3:03pm login or register to post comments

Olla?
… v belov, 15 June, 2017 - 5:16pm login or register to post comments

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