Three-banded Ladybird - Harmonia octomaculata

FAMILY COCCINELLIDAE

This page contains information and pictures about Three-banded Ladybird with black dots that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia

Body length 8mm 

This ladybird also known as Maculate Ladybird. This ladybird beetle is the largest ladybird we have ever seen. 

 

 

 

They are shiny orange in colour with eleven black spots forming three bands on their wing-covers. We saw this ladybird only two times. The first time we found them hunting the aphids among the Milkweed plants in Macgregor bushland.

 

 

 

The second time we saw it near the Bulimba Creek in Wishart, hunting on tall grasses. From the pictures we took, the black dots pattern are a little bit different. The patterns vary a bit between individals. 

 

 

 

We did not found any of the larva yet. 

 

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Reference:

1. Australian Ladybird Beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) Their biology and classification - A.Ślipiński, Australian Biological Resources, 2007, p161.

2. 八條瓢蟲 - Insects of Taiwan.

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