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Species Helesius nubilans

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Coccinelloidea
No Taxon (Coccinellid group)
Family Coccinellidae (Lady Beetles)
Subfamily Scymninae
Tribe Hyperaspidini
Genus Helesius
Species nubilans (Helesius nubilans)
Explanation of Names
Helesius nubilans Casey, 1899
nubilo (L). "to be cloudy, dark" (1)
Numbers
2 spp. n. of Mex. (2)
Size
Length 2.8 to 3.0 mm (2)
Identification
Gordon's figures (2)
Range
nr. Lubbock to Brownsville, TX (4 spmns) - Map (2),(BG data)
Food
No host data is on record for any member of this genus... (2)
Remarks
Type locality: Brownsville, Cameron Co., Texas
known from four spmns, two coll'ed in Brownsville by H. F. Wickham ca. 1897 and one (shown here) coll'ed in San Antonio in 1945, and the fourth from one county east of Lubbock coll'ed in 1969 (also shown here).
Print References
Casey, T.L. 1899. A revision of the American Coccinellidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 7: 71-169. (p. 129)
Internet References
Type Info - Smithsonian
Works Cited
1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.
2.The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico
Robert D. Gordon. 1985. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 93, No. 1.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 27 September, 2010 - 10:52am
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz
Last updated 20 November, 2017 - 8:53am

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