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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Scymninae » Dusky Lady Beetles (Scymnini) » Scymnus » mostly pale spp. (Scymnus mostly pale spp.) » Loew's Lady Beetle (Scymnus loewii)

Species Scymnus loewii - Loew's Lady Beetle

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Habitat · Remarks · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

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 Scymnus

No Taxon (mostly pale spp.)

Species loewii (Loew's Lady Beetle)

Other Common Names

Loew's Dusky Lady Beetle - LDLB

Explanation of Names

Scymnus loewii Mulsant, 1850

Patronym for Friedrich Hermann Loew (1807-1879), a German entomologist who was the first specialist to work on the Diptera of the US, though he never crossed the Atlantic.

Identification

More variable than the BG photos suggest: Gordon's figures (1)

Range

e. US to Calif. / Mex. to S. Amer. - Map (1)

Habitat

may be present in agro-ecosystems (2)

Remarks

Introduced to New Zealand and Hawaii.

See Also

Scymnus brullei Mulsant - Gordon's figures - Range: e. N. Amer. (1)

Internet References

Species des coléoptères trimères sécuripalpes, p.980 - Mulsant's original description of the species (in French)

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.	Survey of lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) found on Texas high plains cotton, alfalfa and weeds. Carroll, S.C., M.N. Parajulee, and M.D. Arnold. 2007. Proceedings of the World Cotton Conference (September 10–14, 2007), Lubbock, TX.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 2 August, 2008 - 6:54am
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, v belov, James Bailey, Abigail Parker
Last updated 6 February, 2022 - 8:20pm

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