Anisosticta novemdecimpunctata

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Superfamilia: Coccinelloidea

Familia: Coccinellidae
Subfamilia: Coccinellinae
Tribus: Coccinellini
Genus: Anisosticta
Species: Anisosticta novemdecimpunctata
Name

Anisosticta novemdecimpunctata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Original combination: Coccinella novemdecimpunctata

References

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiæ: impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. i–ii, 1–824 pp DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542: 366. Reference page.

Links

Anisosticta novemdecimpunctata Taxon details on Fauna Europaea
ZooBank: act:60662B6C-89B5-482D-B7AA-B743BB241842

Vernacular names
Deutsch: Neunzehnpunkt-Marienkäfer
lietuvių: Devyniolikataškė boružė
Nederlands: Negentienpuntlieveheersbeestje
norsk nynorsk: Nittenprikka marihøne
norsk: Nittenprikket marihøne
русский: Anisosticta novemdecimpunctata
svenska: Nittonprickig nyckelpiga

Anisosticta novemdecimpunctata is a species of beetle in family Coccinellidae. It is found in the Palearctic.[2]

Description

The beetles are between 3 and 4 mm in length, with elongated bodies that are comparatively weakly curved. They have yellow, orange, to reddish to pink-colored elytra that display 19 black spots. On the beige to yellow scutum are also six black patches that can be connected to each other through ridges. The variability is lower than in other species. Patches are seldom connected or absent. The legs are yellow, and the feet and claws are somewhat slightly darker. The elytra are spotted and finely-grained in between. The claws are untoothed.
Biology

The habitat in Central Europe is wetlands- fen grassy marshes, forested swamps, and peat bogs and mires. They are found on marsh- and water-plants such as reeds (Phragmites spp.), sedges (Carex spp.), sweet-grass (Glyceria spp.) occasionally also on willows (Salix spp.), where they feed on aphids. The species also occurs on steppes (Pontic–Caspian steppe, Pannonian Steppe), birch outliers and on moor and bog edges.[3] It also feeds on Erysiphales fungi on Gramineae and Compositae.[4]
Distribution

The species is common in the West Palearctic-Europe, and is found in the north up to southern Norway, central Sweden and Finland and into European Russia (middle zone and the south). In England and Ireland.,[5] the Caucasus, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Middle Asia.[6][7]
References

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiæ: impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. i–ii, 1–824 pp
Joy, N 1932 A Practical Handbook of British Beetles
Koch, K., Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Ökologie. Vol. 2 (Goecke und Evers Verlag, Krefeld, 1989).
lablokoff-Khnzorian, S. M. 1982. Les Coccinelles Coleopteres- Coccinellidae Tribu Coccinellini des regions Palearctique et Orientale. Boubee. Paris. 568 pp.
Fauna Europaea
N. B. Nikitsky and А. S. Ukrainsky, 2016 The Ladybird Beetles (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) of Moscow Province ISSN 0013-8738, Entomological Review, 2016, Vol. 96, No. 6, pp. 710–735 ISSN 0013-8738 online pdf

Fauna Europaea

Jiři Zahradnik, Irmgard Jung, Dieter Jung et al.: Käfer Mittel- und Nordwesteuropas. Parey, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-490-27118-1.
Volker Nötzold: Marienkäfer, Bestimmungsschlüssel. Deutscher Jugendbund für Naturbeobachtungen 1997, ISBN 3-923-37620-0