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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Chilocorinae » Exochomus » Exochomus marginipennis

Species Exochomus marginipennis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Lady Beetle - Exochomus marginipennis - female Lady Beetle - Exochomus marginipennis - female lady beetle - Exochomus marginipennis - male Lady Beetle - Exochomus marginipennis Coccinellidae - Exochomus marginipennis Ladybird beetle - Exochomus marginipennis Very Small Beetle - Exochomus marginipennis Exochomus marginipennis (LeConte) - Exochomus marginipennis
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 Exochomus
Species marginipennis (Exochomus marginipennis)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Exochomus marginipennis (LeConte)
Orig. Comb: Coccinella marginipennis J.E. LeConte, 1824
Explanation of Names
Latin margo- "edge" + penna- "wing"
Size
Length 2.5 to 3.6 mm (1)
Identification
Gordon't figures - (1)
Gordon (1985) wrote: "There are several color forms of what I consider to be E. marginipennis (Fig. 512 e-h).
The dark colored specimens are mostly restricted to the eastern and southeastern United States.
Some specimens from northern Florida and Louisiana have the pale childreni pattern (Fig. 512 h), and all specimens from Texas possess that pattern." (1)
Range
e. US (TX-FL-NY-KS) - Map (1)
Stephan (2002) reported 26 specimens of Exochomus childreni guexi from e. Oklahoma and no records of E. marginipennis (2), whereas Dr. Chapin reported no records of Exochomus childreni guexi from Arkansas, but 14 separate county records for E. marginipennis. (3)
Food
Aphids and scale insects
Remarks
Another Exochomus species, E. childreni, may eventually be synonymized with E. marginipennis.
See Also
Exochomus childreni - Subspecies E. c. childreni has black pronotum and dark legs in both male and female. Subspecies E. c. guexi more difficult to separate.
coarse elytral punctation distinguishes pale specimens of E. marginipennis from typical specimens of E. childreni, however, the two spp. lack genitalic differences... (1)
Print References
LeConte, J.E. 1824. Description of some new species of North American insects. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 1: 169-173. (p. 173)
Internet References
Type - MCZ, Harvard
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.List of Coleoptera Collected in Latimer County, Oklahoma by Karl Stephan (2002)
3.A checklist of the Coccinellidae of Arkansas.
Rouse, E.P., and J.B. Chapin. 1976. Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science 30: 76-77.
Contributed by tom murray on 30 October, 2006 - 9:45pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, Abigail Parker
Last updated 30 December, 2023 - 1:17pm

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