![]() ![]() The adults and larvae are predators of aphids, scale insects, mites, and insect eggs. ![]() Biological control & DistributionĬoccinella magnifica is usually found in woodland and heathland close to wood ant ( Formica spp.) nests. Coccinella magnifica is possibly the only truly myrmicophylus coccinelid ( Sloggett et al., 2002) see below. ![]() There are pale orange-yellow lateral patches on the prothorax, the sides of the meso- and metathorax are pale grey, and the dorso-lateral and ventro-lateral tubercles on abdominal segments one and four are orange-yellow. It is dark grey black with mostly black tubercles. The larva (not pictured) is similar in appearance to that of Coccinella septempunctata. Third image above by permission copyright Tristan Bantock, all rights reserved. Coccinella septempunctata, which has such marks only below the middle legs).įirst two images above copyright Gilles San Martin under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. There are small white triangular marks on the underside, below both the middle and front legs (cf. The legs of Coccinella magnifica are black. The pronotum is black with antero-lateral white marks. The central spots are comparatively large and the foremost spots are comparatively small. There is usually a total of seven black spots, although five to eleven are recorded (see first two pictures below). The elytra are mainly red, but with a small whitish area near the anterior border. Coccinella magnifica is a medium-sized to large ladybird at 6-8 mm in length. ![]()
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