Eighteen-spotted ladybird
| Eighteen-spotted ladybird | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Coccinellidae |
| Genus: | Myrrha |
| Species: | M. octodecimguttata |
| Binomial name | |
| Myrrha octodecimguttata (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
| Subspecies | |
The eighteen-spotted ladybird (Myrrha octodecimguttata), or 18-spot ladybird, is a species of beetle in the genus Myrrha in the ladybird family that lives primarily in pine forests and willow trees in Europe. It is usually 4 to 5 millimetres (0.16 to 0.20 in) in length.[1][2]
The eighteen-spotted ladybird is most common throughout the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands and southern Scandinavia, but their range extends throughout central Europe.
References
- ↑ "Ladybirds of the UK" (PDF). Ladybird-Survey.org. Retrieved June 8, 2011.
- ↑ "Ladybirds". Eakringbirds.com.
| External identifiers for Myrrha octodecimguttata | |
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| Encyclopedia of Life | 3216597 |
| GBIF | 4452240 |
| NCBI | 703265 |
| Also found in: Wikispecies | |
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