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FAMILY COCCINELLIDAE
- This page contains information and pictures about Red Chilocorus Beetles
that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length
4mm
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- The ladybird was bright orange in colour with dark edges on the helmet-shaped
wing-covers
base. They are also known as Armoured Scale Predator.
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- In the above pictures, the ladybird was found on a Citrus tree near Bulimba Creek in early
summer.
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- We found this ladybird on different Citrus trees a few times. Scales
insects are very common on Citrus trees. They feed on the scales insects on
those trees.
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Larva
  - Body length 6mm
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- We found this larva once. We think this is the Red Chilocoru larva or very
close related species.
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- In the above photos, the ladybird larva hunting in the meddle of a aphid
colony.
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- Reference:
- 1. Australian Ladybird Beetles
(Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) Their biology and
classification - A.Ślipiński, Australian Biological Resources,
2007, p73.
- 2. Armoured Scale Predators
- Bio Resources.
- 3. Chilocorus circumdatus
- Common species of Coccinellidae of the Indian Region.
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