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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Coccinellinae » Mulsantina » Hudsonian Lady Beetle (Mulsantina hudsonica)

Species Mulsantina hudsonica - Hudsonian Lady Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Works Cited
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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 Mulsantina
Species hudsonica (Hudsonian Lady Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Mulsantina hudsonica (Casey 1899)
Named after Hudson Bay, the type locality
Size
3.5-5.0 mm(1)
Identification

illustrations; dorsal pattern variable, but the elytral vitta and the the broken M-mark on the pronotum are constant(1)
Range
transcontinental in the north (AK-NF)(2) south to Great Lakes states and down the Appalachians to n.GA
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.Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition
Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.
Contributed by Joel Kits on 9 August, 2005 - 6:57pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, v belov, Abigail Parker
Last updated 23 October, 2020 - 7:59pm

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