Orange-spotted ladybird beetle
The orange-spotted ladybird is a black ladybird covered in orange spots. It lives only in New Zealand. It is a hungry hunter of aphids in grasslands, bush, pastures and crops.
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Fun facts
It has 16 orange spots: one on each side of its front and 14 on its wing covers.
Its Māori name is pāpapa kōpure.
Its larva is dark grey with bright orange markings.
The scientist who first named it thought it came from Australia, but that was a mistake.
Birds like starlings and the shining bronze cuckoo eat it.
Most asked questions about Orange-spotted ladybird beetle
?Where does the orange-spotted ladybird live?
Only in New Zealand, in grasslands, bush, pastures and crops.
?How many spots does the orange-spotted ladybird have?
16 orange spots on its black body.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Coccinella leonina
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1775
- Group
- Ladybirds
- Family
- Coccinellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Coccinellidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Orange-spotted ladybird, Pāpapa kōpure
Where the facts come from
- Coccinella leonina (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Jacob Littlejohn. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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