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Brisbane Ladybirds Field Guide
- This page is the Quick Field Guide of common Ladybird Beetles, both adults
and larvae, found in Brisbane. This
includes most of the common species found in Brisbane near-by area and South
East Queensland, Australia.
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- Ladybird male and female are more or less looked the same. They are about
the same size , or female is a bit larger.
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 Name:
Red Chilocorus, Armoured Scale Predator, Chilocorus
circumdatus- Body length: 4mm
- Feed on: scale insects
- Identification: bright orange in colour with dark edges on the
wing-cover base.
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 Name:
Steelblue Ladybird, Halmus chalybeus
- Body length: 3mm
- Feed on: scale insects
- Identification: small in size, shiny dark green in colour.
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 Name:
Orange-spotted Ladybird, Orcus
australasiae- Body length: 5mm
- Feed on: scale insects
- Identification: dark green with six orange dots.
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 Name:
Minute Two-spotted Ladybird, Diomus
notescens
- Body length: 2.5mm
- Feed on: not known
- Identification: very small, dark green in colour with brown spot on
each of the forewings.
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 Name:
Mealybug Ladybird, Mealybug Predator,
Cryptolaemus montrouzieri
- Body length: 3mm
- Feed on: mealybugs
- Identification: dark green, thorax and head yellowish-brown, tails'
are also brown.
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 Name:
Yellow Shouldered Ladybird, Apolinus
lividigaster- Body length: 4mm
- Feed on: aphids
- Identification: dark green with yellow dot on each side of their
thorax.
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 Name:
Transverse Ladybird, Coccinella
transversalis- Body length: 5-6mm
- Feed on: aphids
- Identification: bright orange to orange-red with black transverse
pattern on their back
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 Name:
Variable Ladybird 1, Coelophora inaequalis
- Body length: 5-6mm
- Feed on: aphids
- Identification: bright orange with four various patterned black dot
on each wing-cover.
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 Name:
Variable Ladybird 2, ?
Coelophora inaequalis
- Body length: 5-6mm
- Feed on: aphids
- Identification: bright orange-yellowwith a broken line of two black
dot on each wing-cover.
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 Name:
Variable Ladybird 3, ? Coelophora
inaequalis
- Body length: 5-6mm
- Feed on: aphids
- Identification: bright orange-yellow in colour with total 9 black
dost on wing-covers.
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 Name:
Common Spotted Ladybird, Harmonia
conformis
- Body length: 6-8mm
- Feed on: aphids
- Identification: bright orange with 23 black dots on its wing-covers.
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 Name:
Three-banded Ladybird, Harmonia
octomaculata
- Body length: 8mm
- Feed on: aphids
- Identification: large in size, orange in colour with eleven black
spots forming three bands
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 Name:
Netty Ladybird, Harmonia testudinaria
- Body length: 5-6mm
- Feed on: aphids
- Identification: yellow in colour with black lines across on its
wing-covers resembling network pattern.
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 Name:
Striped Ladybird, Micraspis
frenata
- Body length: 4mm
- Feed on: feed on pollen and nectar, larvae and adults can be found
on tall grasses, not sure if it is also a predator,
- Identification: orange brown in colour with three strips on their
back.
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 Name:
Fungus-eating
Ladybird, Illeis
galbula
- Body length: 4mm
- Feed on: larvae feed only on powdery mildew type of fungus (Oidium
sp., Erysiphales)
- Identification: shiny with bright yellow dots on black colour.
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 Name:
Spotted
Amber Ladybird, White Collared Ladybird,
Hippodamia variegata
- Body length: 4mm
- Feed on: aphids
- Identification: white patch between head and body, two large and a few
small black spots on orange back.
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 Name:
26-spotted Potato Ladybird, Epilachna
vigintisexpunctata- Body length: 7mm
- Feed on: plants
- Identification: 26 black spots on the orange back.
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 Name:
28-spotted Potato Ladybird, Epilachna
vigintioctopunctata
- Body length: 7mm
- Feed on: plants
- Identification: 28 black spots on the orange back.
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 Name:
Red Chilocorus, Armoured Scale Predator, Chilocorus
circumdatus- Body length: 6mm
- Feed on: scale insects
- Identification: cylindrical, broadly fusiform, with brown and black
on creamy grey colour.
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 Name:
Steelblue Ladybird, Halmus chalybeus- Body length: 6mm
- Feed on: scale insects
- Identification: cylindrical, broadly fusiform, with dark brown spots
on creamy grey colour.
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 Name:
Mealybug Ladybird, Mealybug Predator, Cryptolaemus
montrouzieri- Body length: 5mm
- Feed on: mealybugs
- Identification: body entirely covered by white waxy secretion,
resemble their major prey, the mealybug.
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 Name:
Yellow Shouldered Ladybird, Apolinus
lividigaster- Body length: 4mm
- Feed on: aphids
- Identification: fusiform mainly on thorax, creamy white dots on
grey brown.
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 Name:
Transverse Ladybird, Coccinella
transversalis- Body length: 5-6mm
- Feed on: aphids
- Identification: greyish brown in colour with dark markings, slender
fusiform body with medium length walking legs.
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 Name:
Variable Ladybird 1, Coelophora inaequalis- Body length: 5-6mm
- Feed on: aphids
- Identification: black in colour with creamy white markings, slender
fusiform body with medium length walking legs.
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 Name:
Common Spotted Ladybird, Harmonia
conformis- Body length: 6-8mm
- Feed on: aphids
- Identification: black in colour with orange-yellow markings, slender
fusiform body with medium length walking legs.
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 Name:
Netty Ladybird, Harmonia testudinaria- Body length: 5-6mm
- Feed on: aphids
- Identification: dark brown in colour with yellow markings, slender
fusiform body with medium length walking legs.
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 Name:
Striped Ladybird, Micraspis
frenata- Body length: 4mm
- Feed on: larvae and adults can be found on tall grasses, not sure if
it is also a predator,
- Identification: dark brown in colour with creamy white markings,
slender body with medium length walking legs.
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 Name:
Fungus-eating
Ladybird, Illeis galbula- Body length: 4mm
- Feed on: larvae feed only on powdery mildew type of fungus (Oidium
sp., Erysiphales)
- Identification: Creamy white in colour with black dots, slender body
with medium length walking legs.
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 Name:
26-spotted Potato Ladybird, Epilachna
vigintisexpunctata- Body length: 7mm
- Feed on: plants
- Identification: elongate-oval, broadly fusiform, body creamy white
in colour.
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