Coccinella undecimpunctata

Coccinella undecimpunctata, the eleven-spot ladybird or eleven-spotted lady beetle, is a ladybird species endemic to the Palearctic - Europe, North Africa, European Russia, the Caucasus, Siberia, the Russian Far East, Ukraine, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Middle Asia, Western Asia, Afghanistan, Mongolia, China, Pakistan, North India.[2][3] Coccinella undecimpunctata has been introduced to Australia[4] and New Zealand[5] as a biological control agent. In Central Europe C. undecimpunctata feeds on aphids associated with grasses - in fields, in ruderal biotopes, on steppe (including Pannonian steppe), stone quarries, wastelands, dry forest edges in meadows and coastal meadow, in open habitats with grasses, near rivers. Frequently in biotopes with Ammophila arenaria it also occurs on alluvial soils, detritus, on dead grass and in biotopes with Salix purpurea.[6] It is salt resistant and can feed on aphids inhabiting Atriplex tatarica and other grasses associated with saline areas[7]

Eleven-spot ladybird
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Coccinellidae
Genus: Coccinella
Species:
C. undecimpunctata
Binomial name
Coccinella undecimpunctata

References
  1. "Coccinella undecimpunctata Linnaeus, 1758". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  2. 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
  3. Fauna Europaea
  4. "Systematic Names - Coccinella undecimpunctata". www.ento.csiro.au CSIRO. 2005-07-07. Retrieved 2009-03-15.
  5. "Te Ara, the Encyclopedia of New Zealand" (in English and Maori). Retrieved 2009-03-15.
  6. Koch, K., Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Ökologie. Vol. 2 (Goecke und Evers Verlag, Krefeld, 1989).
  7. Dyadechko, N.P., ..The Coccinellidae of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev, 1954) [in Russian].


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