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Hippodamia Ladybird

Adonia variegata / Coccinella variegata / Hippodamia variegata var. novempunctata

Photo by injica
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Description:

This is a species of black-spotted lady beetles belonging to the family Coccinellidae, subfamily Coccinellinae. Head and pronotum are white-yellowish with a central black spot mask shaped. Elytra are red with a very variable number of black points (from zero up to thirteen). The adults grow up to 3-6 mm (this one was closer to 3 mm) and can be encountered from Mar - Oct. They mainly feed on aphids.

Habitat:

It is present in the whole Europe, in the East Palearctic ecozone, in the Near East, in North Africa and in the Oriental region. Was found on a Leguminosae plant.

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Hippodamia variegata

Species ID Suggestions

Lady Beetle

Hippodamia variegata var novempunctata

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Fyn Kynd
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Comments (4)
injica
Since you are so much into deleting comments, go and delete your cause is written after I totally wrote everything and I don't want it to stay here meaning that you are tooking credits for it, tnx! Btw you are a ranger and you should know when sth is not listed as unknown to at least read whats under?!
Fyn Kynd
I deleted my suggestion because I realized that it was incorrect. The correct species is Hippodamia variegata var novempunctata, please add that.
injica
Quotation: " convergent lady beetle, is one of the most common lady beetles in North America and is found throughout the continent" where it says Europe here? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippodamia_convergens
injica
I guess you don't see that it got it name already...

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