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Species Chilocorus circumdatus - Red Chilocorus

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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
adventive in Florida - Map, (released 1996 to control Citrus Snow Scale). Native to SE-Asia, introduced and established in Australia, Used as a biological control agent in greenhouses in Europe.
Food
Scale insects.
See Also
Neda marginalis Mulsant
- rare historical stray to southmost TX