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Heather Ladybird

Chilocorus bipustulatus

Classification

Class
Insecta

Chilocorus bipustulatus, the heather ladybird, is a beetle species belonging to the family Coccinellidae, subfamily Chilocorinae. These beetles are found in most of the Palearctic realm, (Europe, North Africa, Asia north of the Himalayan foothills, and northern and central Arabian Peninsula), and has been introduced to tropical Africa, Hawaii, and North America. The elytra of this small beetle are a shiny brown with two reddish-orange spots on each elytron (hence the Latin word bipustulatus, meaning two-blistered).

Distribution

Jan van Asselt · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 1,475Germany · 921France · 317United Kingdom · 286Italy · 194Spain · 153Switzerland · 83Belgium · 23Luxembourg · 6