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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 » elytral tips pale (Scymnus elytral tips pale) » Scymnus rubricaudus
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Lady beetle - Scymnus rubricaudus
Copyright © 2010 WonGun Kim

Lady beetle - Scymnus rubricaudus
Chantilly, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
May 16, 2010
Size: ~ 2 mm
My best guess is Scymnus.

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Contributed by WonGun Kim on 17 May, 2010 - 4:24am
Last updated 23 August, 2015 - 5:48pm

Moved
Moved from Scymnus.
… WonGun Kim, 12 March, 2012 - 9:07pm login or register to post comments

probably S. rubricaudis
This keeps keying out to Scymnus rubricaudis, although I'm not entirely happy about the dark vertex of the head. Of the dorsally similar species, S. fraternus and its lookalikes have yellow markings, not reddish; the pronotum of S. semiruber is entirely reddish; and S. brullei appears not to occur in most of Virginia. S. securus also doesn't occur in most of VA and the setae should be longer.
… Abigail Parker, 20 June, 2011 - 4:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Abigail!
^^
… WonGun Kim, 12 March, 2012 - 9:08pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.

Moved to genus for now. Will try and key out later (Gordon, 1985) if Abigail or others do not get to it first.
… Blaine Mathison, 17 May, 2010 - 1:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Blaine!
^^
… WonGun Kim, 17 May, 2010 - 1:46pm login or register to post comments

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