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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Scymninae » Spurleg Lady Beetles (Brachiacantha) » Brachiacantha felina

Species Brachiacantha felina

Lady Beetles - Brachiacantha felina - male - female

Brachiacantha felina (Fabricius) - Brachiacantha felina

Brachiacantha felina - Brachiacantha felina - male

Orange-spotted Lady Beetle - Brachiacantha felina

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

Genus Brachiacantha (Spurleg Lady Beetles)

Species felina (Brachiacantha felina)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Syn: Brachiacantha rotunda Gordon 1985(1)

Explanation of Names

Brachiacantha felina (Fabricius 1775)

Size

Length 2.2 to 3.0 mm (2) (+ Syn: B. rotunda: 3.1-4.0 mm)

Identification

Gordon's figures (2)

Range

e. US (MA-VA to IA-TX), absent from s. Atlantic coast - Map (2)(3)

Remarks

this sp. is kinda messed up in that Gordon (1985) didn't find the type for felina and he described rotunda as a sympatric n. sp. and later agreed that rotunda should by a synonym of felina, which again has no type... (2)(1)

Works Cited

1.	The Brachiacantha (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of Illinois H.W. Montgomery, Jr. and M.A. Goodrich. 2002. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science 95(2): 111-130.

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 Inventory of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Lick Creek Park, College Station, Texas Edward G. Riley. 2013. Texas A&M University, Dept. Entomology, College Station.

Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 31 October, 2007 - 2:08pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 30 July, 2025 - 3:59pm

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