Ladybug pupa

Thank you so much Karen. Maybe we could learn more about it when you find another one of these beautiful pupae.

Hi namitha, I'm no expert either. This pupa has a complete band towards the back whereas the other does not. The site you have linked to is for India, & although we also have 7-spotted ladybug here, we have other similar looking species which is why I submitted this to bugguide for ID. Unfortunately they are not able to provide an exact ID, which is why I am IDing this to genus level only.

Hi Karen, could you please tell me how you compared the two pupae. I meant the one in your spotter and the one in the link http://www.aphidweb.com/aphidbioagents/s... . I am no expert in this field so I would like to know how you could tell so precisely.
Could you suggest some differences between the two.

Hi namintha, it could well be a 7-spotted lady beetle as we do have many of those around here. Unfortunately it isn't an exact match for any of the reference photos for that species I could find & there are many similar pupae for different species. We are lucky to have a lady beetle expert within the community, Abigail Parker, & she has narrowed it down to Coccinellinae for me. As unfortunately I didn't bring this indoors so I could see what emerged, this is probably the closest I will get!

It looks like the pupa of Coccinella septempunctata from this site-
http://www.aphidweb.com/aphidbioagents/c.... See if you can find anything similar. I think it look kind of like this spotter. But I am usually never right about ladybirds.

The one in the link that J posted looks very much like this spotter. But since it is unknown ....
And about my first comment, that it might be a 14 spotted ladybird. I told that before learning about the large diversity in Coccinellidae family so I think my first guess was wrong. Sorry about that.

Thanks Jacob!

Karen, here is an unIDed one which looks much like yours: http://bugguide.net/node/view/523385/bgi...
I can see the anchor like shape in both your spotting and the BugGuide link. It may be something to watch.

Thanks for the suggestion namitha. Do you have a reference photo as the ones I've found online for this species look a little different?

Could it be the pupa of a 14-spot ladybird
- Propylea quatuordecimpunctata

Thanks Abigail!
We don't get that many Asian ladybeetles but do unfortunately have lots of C7s.

Subfamily Coccinellinae, probably genus Hippodamia or Coccinella. And definitely NOT the multicolored Asian lady beetle, which is nice to see!

Lorelei, I've found about 2 dozen of various species this week so far!

Wild! I've never seen that before. Great spotting Karen