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Orange-spotted Ladybird Beetle
Coccinella leonina
Coccinella leonina, common name orange-spotted ladybird, is a species of ladybird native to New Zealand. It is black with 16 orange spots, and is about 5–6 mm long. It is present from to subalpine habitats down to sea level. It is a predator which specializes on aphids as an adult and larva, which it hunts in grass/spear grass/tussock. A very similar and closely related undescribed species occurs only on the Three Kings Islands.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 410323.