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  2. Halyzia sedecimguttata - Wikipedia

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    Compound eyes are black. The antennae are light-brown, quite long and slightly thickened at the end. Their physical appearance is marked by a striking orange colour and the presence of 16 (sometimes less) creamy white large spots on the elytra (eight spots on each elytron). The neck shield usually covers the head and shows orange colored spots.

  3. Coccinella leonina - Wikipedia

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    Coccinella leonina or as its common name of orange spotted ladybird suggests, has 16 yellow/orange spots on its black body, [1] with a squarish yellow/orange spot on both sides above the pronotum on the thorax [2] and then 14 other spots on its black elytra [3] which are larger and mostly separated by 1 mm diameter of the black background at the most. [2]

  4. Coccinellidae - Wikipedia

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    A 2015 study of five ladybird species found that their colouration honestly signalled their toxicity, implying the warning is genuine. Species with more contrast with the background environment tended to be more toxic. [65] Coccinellid haemolymph (blood) contains toxic alkaloids, azamacrolides and polyamines, as well as foul-smelling pyrazines ...

  5. Harmonia axyridis - Wikipedia

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    Harmonia axyridis, like other ladybeetles or ladybirds, uses isopropyl methoxy pyrazine as a defensive chemical to deter predation, and also carries this chemical in its hemolymph at much higher concentrations than many other ladybeetle species, along with species-/genus-specific defensive compounds such as harmonine.

  6. Halyzia - Wikipedia

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    Halyzia is a genus in the ladybird family, Coccinellidae. The Halyzia sedecimguttata is identified by its orange color and 14-16 spots on its back. Halyzia is concentrated in European deciduous forests. They can be found in the edges of woodlands or bushes. Halyzia, like many insects has an egg stage, a larval stage, a pupa stage and an adult ...

  7. Coccinella - Wikipedia

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    Coccinella is the most familiar genus of ladybird (or, in North America, ladybug). The elytra of most species are of a red or orange colour, punctuated with black spots or bands. The genus occurs throughout the Northern Hemisphere , but has only 11 species native to North America , with far more in Eurasia .

  8. Coccinella septempunctata - Wikipedia

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    Coccinella septempunctata, the common ladybug, the seven-spot ladybird (or, in North America, seven-spotted ladybug or "C-7" [1]), is a carnivorous beetle native to the Old World and is the most common ladybird in Europe. The beetle is also found in North America, Central and Eastern Asia and regions with a temperate climate.

  9. Henosepilachna argus - Wikipedia

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    Henosepilachna argus can reach a body length of about 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in). These Ladybirds show an orange or orange-red background colour on pronotum and on the strongly arched elytra, with eleven black spots (five on each elytron and one common at the shield).