Biology:Olla v-nigrum

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Short description: Species of beetle


Olla v-nigrum
Olla v-nigrum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Suborder:
Polyphaga
Superfamily:
Coccinelloidea
Family:
Coccinellidae
Subfamily:
Coccinellinae
Genus:
Olla
Species:
O. v-nigrum
Binomial name
Olla v-nigrum
(Mulsant, 1866)

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]

Both forms of adult Olla v-nigrum, larva, and pupae.

The V in its name (v-nigrum) comes from the fact that Mulsant originally described the "prothorax" (pronotum) as "orné d'un V et de quatre points noirs" or ("adorned with a V and four black dots").[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Olla v-nigrum Species Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/8874. Retrieved 2018-01-20. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Olla v-nigrum Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=187031. Retrieved 2018-01-20. 
  3. ↑ "Olla v-nigrum Species Overview". http://eol.org/pages/1175138/overview. Retrieved 2018-01-20. 
  4. ↑ Will, Kip; Gross, Joyce; Rubinoff, Daniel; Powell, Jerry A. (2020). Field Guide to California Insects. Oakland, California: University of California Press. pp. 251. ISBN 9780520288744. 
  5. ↑ (in fr) Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon (Volume 15 ed.). France. 1866. pp. 64. https://books.google.com/books?id=7bcjAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22orn%C3%A9+d%27un+V+et+de+quatre+points+noirs%22&pg=RA1-PA64. 

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.

External links


Wikidata ☰ Q2844275 entry




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