Species Hyperaspis dobzhanskyi - Dobzhansky's Lady Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · See Also · Print References · Works Cited

On an irrigated lawn in tucson - Hyperaspis dobzhanskyi - female

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

Tribe Hyperaspidini

Genus Hyperaspis (Sigil Lady Beetles)

Species dobzhanskyi (Dobzhansky's Lady Beetle)

Explanation of Names

Hyperaspis dobzhanskyi Gordon, 1985

patronym for the Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky who published 10 papers on coccinellids from 1924 to 1941. His last lady beetle publication was on the Hyperaspis spp. inhabiting the United States.

Size

2.45-2.55 mm (1)

Identification

Gordon's figures (1)

Oval shape

Elytra with yellow, orange, or red discal spot and lateral vitta extending from midpoint of body nearly to apical suture

Male and female both with pale anterolateral angle of pronotum

Male head white, female head black (1)

Range

se. AZ - Map (open circle) (1)

See Also

Hyperaspis rotunda - more rounded shape, lateral vitta reduced, male pronotum with pale anterior margin.

(H. rotunda records from AZ need confirmation.)

Both H. rotunda and H. dobzhanskyi are convex species with deeply excavated epipleurae; H. connecters is not convex and without deeply excavated epipleurae. (1)

Print References

Dobzhansky, T. 1941. Beetles of the genus Hyperaspis inhabiting the United States. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 101(6): 1-94.

Gordon, 1985, esp. pp. 476-477, figs. 389-390.(1)

Works Cited

1.	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 Abigail Parker on 26 March, 2012 - 11:08am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 25 November, 2017 - 4:50pm

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