(eleven-spotted ladybird)
Basis for Tasmanian occurrence
Semmens, T.D., McQuillan, P.B. & Hayhurst, G. (1992). Catalogue of the Insects of Tasmania. Government of Tasmania: Department of Primary Industry, 104 pp. (as Coccinella undecimpunctata)
TMAG collections
Introduced from Europe.
Classification
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Coccinelloidea
Family: Coccinellidae
Subfamily: Coccinellinae
Tribe: Coccinellini
Morphology
Typical length (mm): 5
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight
Ecology
Assumed larval feeding: predator
Association with dead wood or old trees: not saproxylic
Ecological attributes: — Affiliated with young (ex-clearfelled) forest (Michaels, 1999).
Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Hand collection (substrate not specified) — Knockdown fogging of canopy of Eucalyptus obliqua — Knockdown fogging of canopy of Nothofagus cunninghamii — Not specified — Pipe trapping — Pitfall trapping — Sticky trapping (substrate not specified) — Vane trapping.
Source ecological literature:
Daley, E. (2007). Wings: an introduction to Tasmania’s winged insects. Hobart: 40 Degrees South Pty. Ltd., 236 pages.
Michaels, K.F. (1999a). Carabid beetles as biodiversity and ecological indicators. PhD thesis, Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart.
