Rodolia

Rodolia is a genus of ladybird beetles belonging to the family Coccinellidae.

Rodolia
Rodolia cardinalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Coccinellidae
Subfamily:
Coccidulinae
Tribe:
Noviini
Genus:
Rodolia

Mulsant, 1850

Selected species

This genus include about 50 species:[1]

Description

Rodolia species have a semispherical body, covered with dense, short hairs. They are reddish-purple, with or without black spots.

Adults of Rodolia species feeding on females of cottony cushion scales (Icerya species)

Rodolia species regularly feed on aphids and small mites, which makes them good as biological control agents.

The most famous species is Rodolia cardinalis, introduced for purposes of biological control in all tropical and subtropical regions of the world and become so cosmopolitan. Other species have been introduced in more restricted areas (Micronesia) always for the biological control of insects.

Distribution

These species are worldwide widespread.[2] They are mostly native to tropical and subtropical regions of Asia (China, Taiwan, Pakistan, India, Indochina, Indonesia) and Oceania (Australia, New Guinea), associated with scale insects.

gollark: It's more standard to use f, g, h and ι as random function names.
gollark: No, all is to be abstracted to clarify boundaries and in case you need it in multiple locations.
gollark: Oh right, most of them are stupidly niche or not public.
gollark: There should probably be more things on there, I'm sure I have more vaguely insane content than that.
gollark: Technically it's 2ish CSS rules for the navbar and a few more for the nice discrete gradient effect I have going on.

References
  1. NCBI
  2. Fauna europaea


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.