Seven-point flat ladybug

Seven-point flat ladybug
	Seven-spotted ladybird ( Hippodamia septemmaculata )
Systematics
Order :	Beetle (Coleoptera)
Subordination :	Polyphaga
Family :	Ladybird (Coccinellidae)
Subfamily :	Coccinellinae
Genre :	Hippodamia
Type :	Seven-point flat ladybug
Scientific name
	Hippodamia septemmaculata
	( De Geer , 1775)

The seven-point flat ladybird ( Hippodamia septemmaculata ) is a beetle from the ladybird family (Coccinellidae).

features

The seven-point flat ladybug has a length of 4.5 to 7 millimeters. It has five to eleven relatively irregularly distributed and in some specimens only weakly pronounced spots on the orange to brown-red wings . The number of spots tends towards five to seven in the majority of the seven-point flat ladybirds. The front breast ( pronotum ) is wider than that of the thirteen-point ladybird ( Hippodamia tredecimpunctata ). The pronotum is not fused with the wings and is black except for a light border, has a shape similar to that of the longitudinally spotted ladybird ( Myzia oblongoguttata ).

Occurrence

The seven-spotted flat ladybug is a European species that is not found in the Iberian Peninsula , Great Britain and Italy. It lives in cold and wet areas, i.e. wetlands, mainly moors and banks, in the European part of the boreal zone . You can find it on peat moss . It is very rare, in Bavaria, for example, the species is classified as endangered , in Schleswig-Holstein, according to Stephan Gürlich, as threatened with extinction ; in North Rhine-Westphalia, as the only German federal state, no sightings were reported between 1950 and 1996.

nutrition

The larvae are apidiphagous, that is, they feed on aphids .

Web links

Commons : Seven-spotted flat ladybug ( Hippodamia septemmaculata ) - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Hippodamia (Hippodamia) septemmaculata at Fauna Europaea (English)
The seven-point flat ladybug on kaefer-der-welt.de
Hippodamia septemmaculata at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

Individual evidence

↑ Entry with description and two photographs on stippen.nl (Dutch)
^ Jiri Zahradník: Beetles of Central and Northwestern Europe. Paul Parey Publishing House, Hamburg / Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-490-27118-1 , p. 215.
^ Bernhard Klausnitzer , Hertha Klausnitzer: Ladybirds. Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei Volume 451, Westarp Wissenschaften, Magdeburg 4th edition 1997, pp. 59 and 76.
↑ Bavaria's Red List of Endangered Cucujoidea (Coleoptera: "Clavicornia") from 2003, p. 138 ( PDF ).
^ Bernhard Klausnitzer, Hertha Klausnitzer: Ladybirds. Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei Volume 451, Westarp Wissenschaften, Magdeburg 4th edition 1997, ISBN 3-89432-812-6 , p. 77.
^ Bernhard Klausnitzer, Hertha Klausnitzer: Ladybirds. Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei Volume 451, Westarp Wissenschaften, Magdeburg 4th edition 1997, ISBN 3-89432-812-6 , p. 65.
^ Bernhard Klausnitzer, Hertha Klausnitzer: Ladybirds. Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei Volume 451, Westarp Wissenschaften, Magdeburg 4th edition 1997, ISBN 3-89432-812-6 , p. 111.

[1] Entry with description and two photographs on stippen.nl (Dutch)

[2] Jiri Zahradník: Beetles of Central and Northwestern Europe. Paul Parey Publishing House, Hamburg / Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-490-27118-1 , p. 215.

[3] Bernhard Klausnitzer , Hertha Klausnitzer: Ladybirds. Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei Volume 451, Westarp Wissenschaften, Magdeburg 4th edition 1997, pp. 59 and 76.

[4] Bavaria's Red List of Endangered Cucujoidea (Coleoptera: "Clavicornia") from 2003, p. 138 ( PDF ).

[5] Bernhard Klausnitzer, Hertha Klausnitzer: Ladybirds. Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei Volume 451, Westarp Wissenschaften, Magdeburg 4th edition 1997, ISBN 3-89432-812-6 , p. 77.

[6] Bernhard Klausnitzer, Hertha Klausnitzer: Ladybirds. Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei Volume 451, Westarp Wissenschaften, Magdeburg 4th edition 1997, ISBN 3-89432-812-6 , p. 65.

[7] Bernhard Klausnitzer, Hertha Klausnitzer: Ladybirds. Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei Volume 451, Westarp Wissenschaften, Magdeburg 4th edition 1997, ISBN 3-89432-812-6 , p. 111.