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Adalia decempunctata (10-spot ladybird)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Adalia decempunctata, commonly known as the ten-spotted ladybird or ten-spotted lady beetle, is a carnivorous beetle of the family Coccinellidae. The ten-spotted ladybird was one of the many species originally described by Linnaeus in his 18th century work, Systema Naturae, its original name was Coccinella decempunctata. Its specific name from the Latin decem "ten", and punctata "spotted". A highly variable species, individuals may in fact bear anywhere from 0 to 15 spots. \n* Dark variant \n* Forma typica
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Prey / Diet

Acyrthosiphon pisum pisum[1]
Arytaina genistae (Broom Psyllid)[1]
Arytainilla spartiophila[1]
Matsucoccus josephi[2]
Parlatoria blanchardi (date palm scale)[2]

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1Predators, parasitoids and pathogens: species richness, trophic generality and body sizes in a natural food web J. Memmott N.D. Martinez J.E. Cohen Journal of Animal Ecology Volume 69, Issue 1 January 2000 Pages 1-15
2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0