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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Chilocorinae » Brumus » Pine Lady Beetle (Brumus quadripustulatus)

Species Brumus quadripustulatus - Pine Lady Beetle

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Coccinellidae - Brumus quadripustulatus Not the Two spotted ladybeetle, but the introduced: - Brumus quadripustulatus Brumus quadripustulatus Harmonia axyridis? variation 1 - Brumus quadripustulatus Ladybug With Custom Paint Job - Brumus quadripustulatus Pine Lady Beetle - Brumus quadripustulatus Pine Lady Beetle - Brumus quadripustulatus Brumus quadripustulatus? - Brumus quadripustulatus
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 Chilocorinae
Genus Brumus
Species quadripustulatus (Pine Lady Beetle)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Exochomus quadripustulatus (Linnaeus 1758) (see Kovar 1995)
Explanation of Names
quadripustulatus - Latin for "four-blistered", referring to the beetle's four red spots.
Size
3.6-4.8 mm(1)
Identification
Gordon's figures - dark brown to black with two pale (yellow to red) spots on each elytron: the front one is comma-shaped (sometimes rectangular), the rear one oval/round(1); recently emerged adults are orange or reddish without spots
Range
w. N. Amer., adventive.
native to, and widespread across, the Palaearctic(2)
Habitat
on conifers
Food
Adelgids (woolly aphids) and scale insects, especially on conifers
Remarks
Introduced to control the Hemlock Woolly Aldegid (Adelges tsugae); originally established near San Francisco, CA(1) but now spread (or introduced) far beyond that.
See Also
Exochomus californicus (Range: no. CA to so. WA)
pronotum all black, without anterior margin and angle narrowly yellow; elytron with spot near apex.
Print References
Kovar I. (1995) Revision of the genera Brumus Muls. and Exochomus Redt. (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of Palaearctic Region. Part 1. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 44: 5-124.
Internet References
images of larva and pupa
GBIF
Wikipedia
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.
2.Coleoptera Poloniae
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 18 September, 2006 - 8:55pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, Tim Moyer, v belov, Harsi S. Parker, Abigail Parker
Last updated 11 July, 2017 - 4:19pm

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