Double-marked Lady Beetle

Hyperaspis binotata · Order: Coleoptera · Family: Coccinellidae

No source yet on danger. We have no source yet on whether it bites, stings or damages anything.
Double-marked Lady Beetle
Photo: Zihao Wang, certains droits réservés (CC BY), publiées par Zihao Wang, CC BY

Adult Hyperaspis binotata are tiny beetles, measuring about 2.4 to 4.5 mm long. Males have a yellow edge on the pronotum, while females have a black pronotum, and both sexes show a black elytron with a red spot. They occur in North America, from Maine and Quebec down to North Carolina and west to North Dakota and Louisiana.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Male pronotum is yellow on the sides and front edge; female pronotum is black. The elytra are black with a single red spot.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 22 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Ohio, Vermont, Illinois, Kansas, New York, South Carolina, Florida, Massachusetts.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in Canada. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

JFMAMJJASOND

Source: GBIF

More photos

Double-marked Lady Beetle photo 2
Photo: Julia Pupko, CC BY
Double-marked Lady Beetle photo 3
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0
Double-marked Lady Beetle photo 4
Photo: Jared Shorma, CC BY
Double-marked Lady Beetle photo 5
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0

Same family (Coccinellidae)

Asian Lady BeetleAsian Lady BeetleHarmonia axyridisCan biteSeven-spotted Lady BeetleSeven-spotted Lady BeetleCoccinella septempunctataConvergent Lady BeetleConvergent Lady BeetleHippodamia convergensCan biteFourteen-spotted Lady BeetleFourteen-spotted Lady BeetlePropylea quatuordecimpunctataVariegated Lady BeetleVariegated Lady BeetleHippodamia variegataSpotless Lady BeetleSpotless Lady BeetleCycloneda sanguinea

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperaspis_binotata

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-27 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-27.

How this page works

This is one bug's fact sheet. The colored box at the top says whether it is dangerous. Sections below cover how to recognize it, whether it is a pest, and how to deal with it. The US map shows which states have records; tap a state to see other bugs there.

Every fact on Bug FAQ comes from a named source (university extension sites, government agencies, GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia). The source is linked next to each section. If we have no source for something, we leave it out.