Predator of vine mealybug - Nephus sordidus

Moved

Moved from Ladybird Beetles.

This specimen was identified by Natalia Vandenberg at the Systematic Entomology Lab in Beltsville, Maryland.

Scymnobius sordidus (Horn) has two synonyms. Gordon calls is Nephus sordidus, and Hatch calls it Scymnus intrusoides.

… Devin Carroll, 23 March, 2007 - 10:55am

Why Nephus

Can someone tell me why this was moved from Scymnobius? This is the name used by the expert from Beltsville. Has there been a recent revision that put it back in Nephus?

… Devin Carroll, 11 August, 2011 - 11:46pm

Scymnobius

Is currently a subgenus of Nephus, along with Turboscymnus, Sidis and Depressoscymnus.

… James Bailey, 13 June, 2017 - 11:18pm

Looks like a match to me,

but I'm no expert. Would you like to make that url an active link? If so, just repeat it in front of itself, preceded by url=, inside lower case brackets. Then immediately after the original, non-bracketed url, put /url inside another set of brackets. If you do it correctly, everything inside the brackets will disappear, leaving just an active, underlined link like this:
http://www.koleopterologie.de/gallery/index.html

… Jim McClarin, 10 December, 2006 - 8:50pm

didn't work

I think I did what you said, but see below, it didn't work. What did I miss?

Thanks

… Devin Carroll, 10 December, 2006 - 10:18pm

aesy fxi :-)

url, not ulr. Try removing those quote marks as well.

… Jim McClarin, 11 December, 2006 - 1:40am

I'm guessing Scymnus

It looks a lot like Scymnus abietus from Europe.

http://www.koleopterologie.de/gallery/index.html

… Devin Carroll, 10 December, 2006 - 12:00am

Not Scirtidae

The antennae are short. This is not a Scirtidae.

I was surprised when I reared this out. The larvae looks similar to Scymnus or a small version of Cryptolaemus.

This specimen keys out to Scymnini or Coccidulini, in Hatch.

… Devin Carroll, 9 December, 2006 - 12:43pm

Do you have any larva photos?

Coccinelid larvae are often more distinctive than the adults.

I spent about an hour this morning trying to find an identified image that looks like this. No luck.

There are not so many coccinelids that it would be unreasonable to find a comprehensive photo database on them, don't you think?

… Jim McClarin, 9 December, 2006 - 1:29pm

Scirtidae ?

I don't think that it is a Coccinelidae. It mostly look like a Scirtidae to me, but it's hard to say without seeing the antennae..

… Pierre-Marc Brousseau, 9 December, 2006 - 11:51am

Linked to other views

of same specimen.

… Jim McClarin, 9 December, 2006 - 6:16am