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Subspecies Hippodamia sinuata crotchi

Convergent Lady ? - Hippodamia sinuata Lady Beetle - Hippodamia sinuata Hippodamia sinuata crotchi Casey  - Hippodamia sinuata Hippodamia sinuata ssp. crotchi - Hippodamia sinuata Hippodamia convergens or H. sinuate ? - Hippodamia sinuata Hippodamia sinuata crotchi Casey - Hippodamia sinuata Hippodamia sinuata crotchi Casey - Hippodamia sinuata Hippodamia sinuata crotchi Casey - Hippodamia sinuata
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 Hippodamia
Species sinuata (Sinuate Lady Beetle)
Subspecies crotchi (Hippodamia sinuata crotchi)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Hippodamia sinuata crotchi Casey
Orig. Comb: Hippodamia crotchi Casey, 1899
Explanation of Names
Patronym for British-born entomologist George Robert Crotch (1842–1874) who worked on Coccinellidae.
Identification
Range
CA-TX-ND-WA / AB-SK - Map (1) (But absent from the Pacific Coast)
Remarks
Type locality: Lake Co., California (1)
Print References
Casey, T.L. 1899. A revision of the American Coccinellidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 7: 71-169. [p.80]
Crotch, G.R. 1873. Revision of the Coccinellidae of the United States. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 4: 363-382.
Crotch, G.R. 1874. A revision of the Coleopterous family Coccinellidae. London, 311 pp.
Smart, J. and B. Wager. 1977. George Robert Crotch, 1842–1874: a bibliography with a biographical note. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 8(3): 244–248.
Internet References
Type Info - Smithsonian
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.