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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 » Sigil Lady Beetles (Hyperaspis) » unidentified signata or binotata group (Hyperaspis unidentified signata or binotata group)
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Hyperaspis - male
Copyright © 2013 Ben Coulter

Hyperaspis - Male
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
April 15, 2013
Size: 3.5 mm

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Contributed by Ben Coulter on 17 April, 2013 - 5:30pm
Last updated 16 July, 2013 - 10:49am

Moved
Moved from Lady Beetles.
… Abigail Parker, 16 July, 2013 - 10:49am login or register to post comments

Hyperaspis... signata group?
wait for our LB experts
… v belov, 17 April, 2013 - 6:35pm login or register to post comments

 
I think you've got it
That's a much better guess than mine. Hooray, another species complex that can't be distinguished from photos!
… Ben Coulter, 17 April, 2013 - 6:52pm login or register to post comments

 
amen to that
maybe the greatest lesson BG is teaching is the limitations of image-based identification. (must be worth something coming from a guy who happens to believe that most everything is essentially ID'able from circumstantial evidence :)
… v belov, 17 April, 2013 - 6:57pm login or register to post comments

 
- male
is knowing you can determine its gender of some consolation?
… Tim Moyer, 17 April, 2013 - 10:19pm login or register to post comments

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