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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Coccinellinae » Coccinella » pale elytral suture (Coccinella pale elytral suture) » Eleven-spotted Lady Beetle (Coccinella undecimpunctata)
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nine-spotted ladybird beetle? - Coccinella undecimpunctata
Copyright © 2009 Lynette Elliott

nine-spotted ladybird beetle? - Coccinella undecimpunctata
Puyallup, Pierce County, Washington, USA
May 29, 2008
Size: around 5 mm
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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 30 May, 2009 - 10:32am
Last updated 21 October, 2014 - 8:32am

Moved
Moved from Ladybird Beetles. Thanks Tim, I never would have guessed.... since it is missing two spots.
… Lynette Elliott, 1 June, 2009 - 3:11pm login or register to post comments

Coccinella undecimpunctata - 11-spotted ladybird
"More elongate and less convex than any other species of Coccinella. Head with 2 well separated pale spots (C. novemnotata has a solid band) Elytral suture red, not or only slightly darker than the pale discal area. Elytron usually with 4 small round spots in addition to humeral and scutellar spot, the 2 submedian spots sometimes joined, the outer humeral spot sometimes lacking"(1) (as yours is, which had me quite confused for a while).

Not the highly sought C. novemnotata, but still a nice ladybird and another new species for BugGuide :)
… Tim Moyer, 1 June, 2009 - 11:32am login or register to post comments

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