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Black beetle with red spotsf - Calvia quatuordecimguttata - male - female

Black beetle with red spotsf - Calvia quatuordecimguttata - Male Female
Fredericton, York County, New Brunswick, Canada
June 16, 2012
Size: 5mm
The male and the female have different shaped red spots.

Moved
Moved from Lady Beetles.

Calvia quatuordecimguttata
This species is extremely variable, and you have here two of the red-spotted melanic variations: the male with hook-shaped markings, the female with heart-shaped markings. I wonder what the offspring will look like!

Moved
Moved from Beetles.

interesting...
my first guess was a Hyperaspis of some kind, but at 5 mm would be a bit big. Abigail can be more precise.

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