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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Coccinelloidea » Coccinellid group » Lady Beetles (Coccinellidae) » Chilocorinae » Twice-stabbed Lady Beetles (Chilocorus) » Red Chilocorus (Chilocorus circumdatus)

Species Chilocorus circumdatus - Red Chilocorus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Internet References
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Coccinelloidea
No Taxon (Coccinellid group)
Family Coccinellidae (Lady Beetles)
Subfamily Chilocorinae
Genus Chilocorus (Twice-stabbed Lady Beetles)
Species circumdatus (Red Chilocorus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Chilocorus circumdatus (Gyllenhall in Schönherr)
Orig. Comb: Coccinella circumdata Gyllenhaal 1808
Size
Length 4.2-5.9 mm
Identification

Body all red, except for a narrow black margin on outer edge of elytra.
Range
Native to SE-Asia, introduced and established in Australia, and it seems, also in Florida (released 1996 to control Citrus Snow Scale). Used as a biological control agent in greenhouses in Europe.
Food
Scale insects.
See Also
- rare historical stray to southmost TX
Neda marginalis Mulsant
Internet References
National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Insects
Brisbane Insects
Australian Museum
Common Species of Coccineliidae of the Indian Region
EOL
Synonymia Insectorum (by Karl Schönherr), v.1, pt.2, p.152, footnote p) - Gyllenhall's original description of the species (in Latin)
Contributed by Boris Büche on 17 June, 2008 - 2:54am
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn
Last updated 14 October, 2015 - 10:09am

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