Calvia quatuordecimguttata Linne

• Main Authors: Majka, Christopher G., Mccorquodale, David B.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Coccinellidae; Calvia; Calvia quatuordecimguttata; Canada; Cornwall; Newfoundland; Northwest Territories; Yukon; Alaska; Prince Edward Island
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5620983; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5620983

Calvia quatuordecimguttata (Linné) PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Kings County: Upton, 5 August, 1955, L.S. Thompson, 2 specimens, ACPE; Queens County: West Royalty, 19 May 1983, L.S. Thompson, ACPE; Cornwall, summer 1981, M.E.M. Smith, ACPE; Cornwall, summer 1993, M.E.M. Smith, ACPE; Sherwood, 3 August 1993, R.M. Cheverie, ACPE. Newly recorded on Prince Edward Island. Found across the northern half of the United States from northern California to New Jersey (Gordon 1985); also in Alaska and in Canada from the Yukon and Northwest Territories east to Newfoundland and Labrador (McNamara 1991). It is highly polymorphic with a large number of varied color forms, many of which have been described as separate species in the past. At least four distinct colour morphs are found in the Maritime Provinces. Published as part of Majka, Christopher G. & Mccorquodale, David B., 2006, The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: new records, biogeographic notes, and conservation concerns, pp. 49-68 in Zootaxa 1154 on page 62, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.273410