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Species Brachiacantha stephani - Stephan's Lady Beetle

Representative Images

Brachiacantha stephani Gordon - Brachiacantha stephani leaf beetle on morning glory - Brachiacantha stephani - male leaf beetle on morning glory - Brachiacantha stephani - male Brachiacantha stephani? - Brachiacantha stephani - male - female Brachiacantha stephani? - Brachiacantha stephani - male - female Stephan's Lady Beetle? - Brachiacantha stephani Stephan's Lady Beetle? - Brachiacantha stephani Stephan's Lady Beetle? - Brachiacantha stephani

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 stephani (Stephan's Lady Beetle)

Other Common Names

Stephan's Spur-legged Ladybug

Explanation of Names

Brachiacantha stephani Gordon, 1985
patronym for Karl Heinz Stephan (1931-2005) (1)

Size

4.0-4.8 mm (1)

Identification

Gordon's figures
Location + elytron with median orange band and always with apical orange spot + male head black with orange vertex and frons, 6th sterna of male flat - not strongly concave (1)

Range

sky islands of se AZ - Map (1)(BG data)

Season

July-August, per type series (1)(BG data)

Remarks

Type series: ARIZONA: Santa Rita Mts., Madera Canyon; holotype: male, 26.viii.1970, K. Stephan Coll (FSCA);
paratypes: 21.vii.1969, 3.viii.1968, 18.viii.1968, vii.1970

See Also

"The head of male is not entirely yellow in B. stephani, a character which will separate that sex from B. tau and B. subfasciata, the other species of this group that occurring in Arizona. Females not separable" (1)

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.
Contributed by Tim Moyer on 29 July, 2008 - 12:11pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, v belov, Abigail Parker
Last updated 2 March, 2024 - 8:56am

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