Spotted Amber Ladybird at Black Range, NSW
Identification history
| Hippodamia variegata | 26 Sep 2020 | KimPullen | ||
| Adalia punctata | 15 Sep 2020 | StephH |
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User's notes
I found this introduced ladybird referred to as punctata in Roger Farrow's book of 2016, but can't find other uses of that species name.
5 comments
JackieMiles
wrote:
17 Sep 2020
Interesting - it does look very like Roger's illustration, but we have had this thing ID'd as Hippodamia variegata in the past. Have to leave it to Kim to sort out.
StephH
wrote:
17 Sep 2020
Well I never! I agree that it looks very similar. Maybe the classification has changed. Yes, hope Kim can help.
KimPullen
wrote:
18 Oct 2020
The species captioned as 'Adalia punctata' (in error for Adalia bipunctata) in Roger's book is in fact Hippodamia variegata. A. bipunctata was deliberately introduced to Australia as an aphid control agent, but there are doubts about whether it has established. It has only two black spots on the elytra, see https://www.ento.csiro.au/biology/ladybirds/big_images/species/adaliBipunctataDor.jpg .
Hippodamia variegata is also exotic here, but its introduction to Australia was not intentional.
StephH
wrote:
21 Oct 2020
A complex story to identify one little ladybird. Thanks for taking the time to explain it, Kim.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.849497-36.731023
- Places Black Range, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 15 Sep 2020 04:23 PM Recorded on
- StephH Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Lady beetles (Coccinellidae) Beetles (Coleoptera) StephH
Species information
- Hippodamia variegata Scientific name
- Spotted Amber Ladybird Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1189.2m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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