Biology:Eighteen-spotted ladybird

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Short description: Species of beetle

Eighteen-spotted ladybird
P1100358 Myrrha octodecimguttata.jpg
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Coccinellidae
Genus:
Myrrha
Species:
M. octodecimguttata
Binomial name
Myrrha octodecimguttata
Subspecies
  • M. o. octodecimguttata (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • M. o. formosa (Costa, 1849)

The eighteen-spotted ladybird (Myrrha octodecimguttata), or 18-spot ladybird, is a species of beetle in the genus Myrrha in the ladybird family that lives primarily in pine forests and mixed (deciduous/conifer) forests inhabiting the upper part of the canopy and feeding on aphids.[1] They favour old pines and breed in the crowns of pine trees in Germany [2] M. octodecimguttata also occurs on high bogs (West Siberian Plain , East Siberian taiga)[3] Adults overwinter in aggregations under peeled-off bark and in crevices at the bases of old pine trunks.[4] It is usually 4 to 5 millimetres (0.16 to 0.20 in) in length.[5][6]

Distribution

Europe, North Africa. European Russia, the Caucasus, Siberia, the Russian Far East, Belarus, Ukraine, Transcaucasia, Kazakhstan, Western Asia, Mongolia.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ lablokoff-Khnzorian, S. M. 1982. Les Coccinelles Coleopteres- Coccinellidae Tribu Coccinellini des regions Palearctique et Orientale. Boubee. Paris. 568 pp.
  2. ↑ Klausnitzer, B. 1968. Zur Biologic von Myrrha octodecimguttata (L.) (Col. Coccinellidae). Entomol. Nachr. 12: 102-104.
  3. ↑ Iablokoff-Khnzorian, S.M., A Review of the Family Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of the Fauna of the USSR., Zoologicheskii Sbornik Instituta Zoologii Armyanskoi SSR. Yerevan 19, 94–161 (1983)
  4. ↑ Koch, K., Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Ökologie. Vol. 2 (Goecke und Evers Verlag, Krefeld, 1989)
  5. ↑ "Ladybirds of the UK". Ladybird-Survey.org. http://www.ladybird-survey.org/downloads/Ladybird%20descriptions_Info%20pack_2006_v.1.3.pdf. Retrieved June 8, 2011. 
  6. ↑ "Ladybirds". Eakringbirds.com. http://www.eakringbirds.com/eakringbirds2/ladybirds.htm. 
  7. ↑ N. B. Nikitsky and А. S. Ukrainsky , 2016 The Ladybird Beetles (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) of Moscow Province ISSN 0013-8738, Entomological Review, 2016, Vol. 96, No. 6, pp. 710–735 ISSN 0013-8738 online pdf
  8. ↑ Fauna Europaea

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