Olla v-nigrum
Olla v-nigrum is a species in the family Coccinellidae ("lady beetles"), in the suborder Polyphaga.[1][2] The species is known generally as the ashy gray lady beetle.[3] The distribution range of Olla v-nigrum includes Central America, North America, and Oceania.[2] It is usually gray or pale tan with small black spots on its elytra and thorax. However, a variation can resemble Chilocorus orbus. This form is black with two red spots on the wing covers and has white on the edge of the prothorax.[4]
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Both forms of adult Olla v-nigrum, larva, and pupae.
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References
- "Olla v-nigrum Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
- "Olla v-nigrum Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Retrieved 2018-01-20.
- "Olla v-nigrum Species Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-01-20.
- Will, Kip; Gross, Joyce; Rubinoff, Daniel; Powell, Jerry A. (2020). Field Guide to California Insects. Oakland, California: University of California Press. p. 251. ISBN 9780520288744.
Further reading
- "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico", Robert D. Gordon. 1985. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 93, No. 1.
- Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- Belicek, Joseph (1976). "Coccinellidae of western Canada and Alaska with analyses of the transmontane zoogeographic relationships between the fauna of British Columbia and Alberta (Insecta: Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)". Quaestiones Entomologicae, vol. 12, no. 4, 283–409.
- Gordon, Robert D. (1985). "The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico". Journal of the New York Entomological Society, vol. 93, no. 1, 1–912.
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
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