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Specimens curated in the TAMUIC
Range: Not collected outside of the Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas area save one specimen from Hidalgo Co., TX
Flight Period: March through October
Biology: Homopteran predator
Similar Species: 94 species north of Mexico.
25 spp. in Texas:
Hyperaspis bensonica Casey
Hyperaspis bigeminata (Randall)
Hyperaspis caseyi Gordon
Hyperaspis connectens (Thunberg)
Hyperaspis conspirans Casey
Hyperaspis cruenta LeConte
Hyperaspis gemma Casey
Hyperaspis globula Casey
Hyperaspis imitator Gordon
Hyperaspis inflexa Casey
Hyperaspis lateralis Mulsant
Hyperaspis levrati (Mulsant)
Hyperaspis medialis Casey
Hyperaspis octonotata Casey
Hyperaspis pleuralis Casey
Hyperaspis pratensis LeConte
Hyperaspis punctata LeConte
Hyperaspis rotunda Casey
Hyperaspis schaefferi Gordon
Hyperaspis signata bicentralis Casey
Hyperaspis signata (Olivier)
Hyperaspis triangulum Casey
Hyperaspis trifurcata Schaeffer
Hyperaspis weisei Schaeffer
Hyperaspis wickhami Casey
Etymology: Hyperaspis rotunda Casey
hyper (G). Over, above; excessive
aspis (G). A shield
rotund (L). Round
Biography: Thomas Casey 1857-1925 - University of Nebraska-Lincoln State Museum
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M.C. Thomas, P.E. Skelley & J.H. Frank. (editors). 2002. American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL. xiv + 861 pp.
Borror, D.J. 1960. Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms. National Press Books, Palo Alto. v + 134 pp.
Casey, T.L. 1899. A revision of the American Coccinellidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 7(2): 71-169.
Dobzhansky, T. 1941. Beetles of the genus Hyperaspis inhabiting the United States. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 101(6): 1-94.
Gordon, R.D. 1985. The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America north of Mexico. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 93(1): [4] + 912 pp.
10 Dec 2008 © Mike Quinn / Texas Entomology / Texas Beetle Information