Kidney-spotted globe ladybug
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Kidney-spotted globe ladybug ( Chilocorus renipustulatus ) |
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The kidney-spotted spherical ladybird or round-spotted scale insect ladybird ( Chilocorus renipustulatus ) is a beetle from the ladybird family (Coccinellidae).
features
The beetles are about four to five millimeters long, strongly curved into a hemisphere and have a very small head and neck compared to the body. They have black, provided the abdomen with a raised edge wing cases where the center two red or yellowish, round or transverse, oval spots can be found. Her head is densely coarsely punctured on its front edge and on the side narrowing, adapted to the spherical shape of pronotum have front, side a fine hair. Their antennae and legs are brown.
Similar species
- Line spotted scale insect ladybird ( Chilocorus bipustulatus )
Occurrence
The beetles are found all over Europe , north to south Norway and central Sweden , and in Asia in damp areas on deciduous trees and shrubs. They especially prefer alder , ash and dogwood .
food
The beetles and larvae of Nierenfleckigen ball ladybug feed on leaf and scale insects .
literature
- Karl Wilhelm Harde and Frantisek Severa: The Kosmos Käferführer. The Central European beetle. Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-440-06959-1
- Jiři Zahradnik, Irmgard Jung, Dieter Jung et al .: Beetles of Central and Northwestern Europe. Parey, Berlin 1985 ISBN 3-490-27118-1
