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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Scymninae » Hyperaspidini » Hyperaspidius
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Looks like a Lady... - Hyperaspidius
Copyright © 2013 Mark S. Romero

Looks like a Lady... - Hyperaspidius
La Luz Trail, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
April 24, 2008
Size: ~2mm
In a stream bed walking on fine granite gravel/sand. Seems too small for a lady beetle.
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Contributed by Mark S. Romero on 26 March, 2013 - 8:10pm
Last updated 24 August, 2015 - 2:52pm

Moved
Moved from Helesius, Hyperaspidius, Hyperaspis, and Thalassa.
… v belov, 1 April, 2013 - 7:09am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Scymninae.
… v belov, 27 March, 2013 - 8:15am login or register to post comments

Hyperaspidinii definitely
And very likely Hyperaspidius. I'll see what my references come up with, the pattern is fairly distinctive. It looks to be female, with the small frontal white area and no white on the pronotum, and that makes it harder to ID species.
… Abigail Parker, 27 March, 2013 - 7:45am login or register to post comments

 
great; thanks, Abigail.
… v belov, 27 March, 2013 - 7:54am login or register to post comments

 
second for Hyperaspidius
and could this be the elusive female of H. arcuatus LeConte? (syn: H. rossi Nunenmacher) Have to order a few old library reprints :)
… Tim Moyer, 31 March, 2013 - 11:22pm login or register to post comments

 
was also thinking H. arcuatus...
but I wasn't bold enough to suggest it! I don't see anything else that matches at all; the male H. arcuatus is quite close in appearance to this female (the pale area of the elytra extends beyond the basal margin, but pattern variations are so common in Coccinellidae that it doesn't overly faze me).
… Abigail Parker, 1 April, 2013 - 7:59am login or register to post comments

super! Hyperaspidius? let's see what the experts say
Moved from Cucujoidea.
… v belov, 26 March, 2013 - 8:46pm login or register to post comments

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