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Chilocorus bipustulatus

Chilocorus bipustulatus

Guérin-Méneville, 1842

Family: Coccinellidae
Order: Coleoptera
Class: Insecta
Phylum / Division: Arthropoda
Kingdom: Animalia

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Chilocorus bipustulatus, the heather ladybird, is a beetle species belonging to the family Coccinellidae, subfamily Chilocorinae.

These beetles are found in most of the Palearctic realm, (Europe, North Africa, Asia north of the Himalayan foothills, and northern and central Arabian Peninsula),
and has been introduced to tropical Africa, Hawaii, and North America.

The elytra of this small beetle are a shiny brown with two reddish-orange spots on each elytron (hence the Latin word , meaning two-blistered). Sometime three spots run in an horizontal line and join into two larger stains.

The mature larva is about 5 mm long. Wintering occurs as an adult. The adults grow up to long and can be encountered from May through October.

In Europe it occurs in fruit gardens, pine forests, and stone quarries. In Poland it was found on grasses, low vegetation and bushes, on heath lands, under flakes of bark on pines and fruit trees, occasionally in leaf litter and in moss

Heather ladybirds feed on aphids and scale insects (mainly belonging to the family Coccidae and Diaspididae) and is often introduced as a biological control in cases of infestation.

Source: Wikipedia, article Chilocorus bipustulatus. Content adapted from Wikipedia, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Accessed on 16/07/2026.





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Rafael Calzada
Buenos Aires
Argentina
11/05/2017
Luis Carlos De Volder



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Record IDDateExact timeCountryProvince / departmentPlaceFilmedPhotographedRecorded vocalObservedHeardWounded or deadNumber of individualsUser or BibliographyDetail
63923205/11/2017ArgentinaBuenos AiresCalle Lopez de Gomara entre Altamira e Intendente Gonzalez, Rafael CalzadaLuis Carlos De Volder
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Please use the following reference when citing this species account.
EcoRegistros. 2026. Chilocorus bipustulatus – Species account. Accessed from www.ecoregistros.org on 18/09/2026.