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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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Foto
Photography ID: 312981
  Adult

Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Argentina
01/24/2019
Gustavo Fernando Durán
Foto
Photography ID: 214413
  Adult

Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Argentina
08/14/2017
Gustavo Fernando Durán
Foto
Photography ID: 139291
  Adult

Santa Fe
Santa Fe
Argentina
02/19/2016
Gustavo Fernando Durán



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Record IDDateExact timeCountryProvince / departmentPlaceFilmedPhotographedRecorded vocalObservedHeardWounded or deadNumber of individualsUser or BibliographyDetail
251401220/08/202613:16ArgentinaSanta FeAvenida General López 3681, Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz1Gustavo Fernando Durán
238789421/11/202511:13ArgentinaSanta FeAvenida General López 3681, Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz1Gustavo Fernando Durán
224496507/02/202513:14ArgentinaSanta FeAvenida General López 3681, Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz1Gustavo Fernando Durán
196924107/02/2024ArgentinaSanta FeAvenida General López 3681, Santa Fe1Gustavo Fernando Durán
178841501/07/2023ArgentinaSanta FeAvenida General López 3681, Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz1Gustavo Fernando Durán
153483114/01/2022ArgentinaSanta FeSanta Fe1Gustavo Fernando Durán
137785102/03/2021ArgentinaSanta FeAvenida General López 3681, Santa Fe1Gustavo Fernando Durán
131444722/11/2020ArgentinaSanta FeJuan de Garay 1095, San Jerónimo NorteGustavo Fernando Durán
126500121/06/2020ArgentinaSanta FeSarmiento 1362, San Jerónimo NorteGustavo Fernando Durán
87596524/01/2019ArgentinaSanta FeAvenida General López 3681, Santa FeGustavo Fernando Durán
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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 24/09/2026.