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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Chilocorinae » Exochomus
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Lady Beetle - Exochomus
Copyright © 2010 Gacko

Lady Beetle - Exochomus
Desoto, Dallas County, Texas, USA
September 15, 2009
Size: Less than 5mm.
Exochomus, maybe? Found on fence under Live and Red Oaks.

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Contributed by Gacko on 11 January, 2010 - 10:52am
Last updated 12 January, 2010 - 12:06pm

Moved
Moved from Frass.
… Abigail Parker, 12 January, 2010 - 12:06pm login or register to post comments

do the legs look yellow to you?
That's another factor to consider when separating E. marginipennis and the E. childreni subspecies. Only male E. c. guexi has yellow legs - although a male would typically have a more widely pale anterolateral pronotal angle.

Hm. Curiouser and curiouser.

Let's hang onto this one too, if you don't mind. A few more images won't make the Exochomus section unmanageable - it's getting bigger, but by no means overrepresented.
… Abigail Parker, 12 January, 2010 - 12:06pm login or register to post comments

Frassed
Moved from ID Request.
… Gacko, 12 January, 2010 - 11:14am login or register to post comments

Yes, Exochomus
Suggest moving to genus for now - there are a number of species possible for Texas, and taxonomic debate is raging about two of them.
… Abigail Parker, 12 January, 2010 - 11:01am login or register to post comments

 
I was just going to frass this one...
There are several from TX, including another one of mine taken on the same fence.
… Gacko, 12 January, 2010 - 11:13am login or register to post comments

 
Okay, just keep the best here for us!
If anyone ever sorts the taxonomy out, we may wind up with a new species or subspecies, and some of our "genus-only" photos might end up there.

(Conversely, a whole species might be downgraded to a subspecies of another, and then we'd suddenly have a lot of "extra" images for it...)
… Abigail Parker, 12 January, 2010 - 11:40am login or register to post comments

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