- Animals
- ›Arthropods
- ›Hexapods
- ›Insects
- ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
- ›Beetles
- ›Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf, and Snout Beetles
- ›Cucujiform Beetles
- ›Lady, Fungus, Scavenger, and Bark Beetles
- ›Lady Beetles
- ›Scymninae
- ›Brachiacanthini
- ›Brachiacantha
Brachiacantha illustris
Brachiacantha illustris is a species in the family Coccinellidae ("lady beetles"), in the order Coleoptera ("beetles"). Brachiacantha illustris is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.
From the article Brachiacantha illustris on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Adults reach a length of about 3.40-4.60 mm. The pronotum is black a yellow anterior margin and anterolateral angle broadly yellow. The elytron has a variable colour pattern.
Listen
Looking for field recordings…
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Brachiacantha illustris in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 215334.