Tiny Lady Beetle

Nephus flavifrons · Order: Coleoptera · Family: Coccinellidae

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Tiny Lady Beetle
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0

Nephus flavifrons, also called the yellow-fronted lady beetle, belongs to the dusky lady beetle group in the Coccinellidae family. It occurs in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Nephus flavifrons is a dusky lady beetle in the family Coccinellidae.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

This species is found in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 19 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Texas, Kansas, Arizona, Ohio, Florida, Indiana, New Jersey, New York.

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

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Tiny Lady Beetle photo 2
Photo: David LaMagna, CC BY
Tiny Lady Beetle photo 3
Photo: Zinogre, CC BY-SA
Tiny Lady Beetle photo 4
Photo: Tyler Ekholm, CC BY
Tiny Lady Beetle photo 5
Photo: Sean Golden, CC BY

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/Scymnobius_flavifrons

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

Text written 2026-10-28 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-28.

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