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Species Stethorus pusillus - Lesser Mite Destroyer

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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 Scymninae
Genus Stethorus (Spider Mite Destroyers)
Species pusillus (Lesser Mite Destroyer)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Stethorus punctillum Weise 1891
Explanation of Names
Stethorus pusillus (Herbst 1797)
Size
1.2‒1.5 mm(1)
Range
native to the Palaearctic, introduced and established in NA (MA‒e.WI, PNW) ‒map(2)(3)
Food
mites
Remarks
Introduced from Europe as biocontrol agent in 1955 but failed to establish and was repeatedly reintroduced thereafter