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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Scymninae » Spurleg Lady Beetles (Brachiacantha) » T-marked Lady Beetle (Brachiacantha tau)
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T-marked Lady Beetle - Brachiacantha tau
Copyright © 2011 Bryan E. Reynolds

T-marked Lady Beetle - Brachiacantha tau
Square Butte, Little Missouri National Grassland, Golden Valley County, North Dakota, USA
May 15, 2004
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Contributed by Bryan E. Reynolds on 29 June, 2011 - 3:41pm
Last updated 23 February, 2015 - 9:56am

Moved
Moved from Scymninae.
… Abigail Parker, 26 March, 2012 - 4:45pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Hyperaspis.
… Abigail Parker, 26 March, 2012 - 4:31pm login or register to post comments

must be Brachiacantha tau
North Dakota was recently added to the range of this species,* and literally nothing else fits. It's not the typical pattern for B. tau but it is one of the possible variations.


*Fauske, G.M., P.P. Tinerella, and D.A. Rider. 2003. A list of the lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of North Dakota with new records from North Dakota and Minnesota. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 76: 38-46.
… Abigail Parker, 26 March, 2012 - 4:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for your hard work on
Thanks for your hard work on this one, Abigail!
… Bryan E. Reynolds, 11 April, 2012 - 2:57pm login or register to post comments

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