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Insect

Illeis koebelei

  • classification

    Coccinellidae

  • appearance period

    April to September

  • distribution

    Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan

  • form

    It is around 3~5-millimeter-long. It has a pair of black and round patterns in a white ground on head and back of thorax each. It is very tiny and elytra are typical yellow, which makes it easily distinguished from other ladybugs.

  • ecology

    Unlike other ladybugs feeding on aphid, they eat plant pathogenic fungi such as podosphaera xanthii. Imagoes usually move around leaves of trees of heaven (ailanthus altissima) as well as pumpkin flowers or crops.

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