Chilocorus kuwanae (English spelling) Chilocoruskuwanae

Japanese: Chilocorus kuwanae(英語表記)Chilocoruskuwanae
Chilocorus kuwanae (English spelling) Chilocoruskuwanae

...The feeding habits of adults and larvae can be broadly divided into carnivorous, which prey on aphids, scale insects, and psyllids, mycophagous, which eat mold that causes mildew and soot on plant leaves, and phyllovorous, which eat potato and thistle leaves. However, many species are carnivorous, and representative species include the two-spotted ladybird beetle Coccinella septempunctata (illustration), which eats aphids, and the small red-spotted ladybird Chilocorus kuwanae, which eats scale insects. The bedalis ladybird Rodolia cardinalis was imported from Australia as a natural enemy to feed on the fruit pest Iseria scale insect, and is now widely distributed from Honshu southward. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Chilocorus kuwanae" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…成虫,幼虫の食性はアブラムシ類,カイガラムシ類,キジラミ類などを捕食する食肉性,植物の葉に白渋病やすす病をおこさせるカビ類を食べる食菌性,ジャガイモやアザミなどの葉を食べる食葉性に大別できる。しかし多くの種類は食肉性で,アブラムシ類を食べるナミテントウ,ナナホシテントウCoccinella septempunctata(イラスト),カイガラムシ類を食べるヒメアカホシテントウChilocorus kuwanaeなどはその代表的な種である。ベダリアテントウRodolia cardinalisは果実の害虫イセリアカイガラムシを食するため,天敵としてオーストラリアから輸入され,今日では本州以南に広く分布する。…

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