Coccinella Leonina

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Coccinella leonina, common name orange-spotted ladybird, is a species of ladybird native to New Zealand. It is black with 16 orange spots, and is about 5-6 mm long. It is present from to subalpine habitats down to sea level. It is a predator which specializes on aphids as an adult and larva, which it hunts in grass/spear grass/tussock. A very similar and closely related undescribed species occurs only on the Three Kings Islands.