Greater Asian Lady Beetle

Harmonia dimidiata · Order: Coleoptera · Family: Coccinellidae

Also called: Ladybird beetle

No source yet on danger. We have no source yet on whether it bites, stings or damages anything.
Greater Asian Lady Beetle
Photo: 雲一百香果, CC BY

Adult Greater Asian Lady Beetles measure about 7.4 to 10 mm long. They are reddish-yellow with black markings. The species occurs in North America and Southern Asia.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Adults are reddish-yellow with black markings.

Source: Wikipedia

Size

Adults are about 7.4-10 mm long.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 4 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Florida, Kentucky, California, Pennsylvania.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: introduced in United States. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Greater Asian Lady Beetle photo 2
Photo: Gannu03, CC BY-SA
Greater Asian Lady Beetle photo 3
Photo: Ali M, Ahmed K, Ali S, Raza G, Hussain I, Nafees MA, Anjum SI (2018) An annotated checklist of Coccinellidae with four new records from Pakistan (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae). ZooKeys 803: 93-120. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.803.22543, CC BY
Greater Asian Lady Beetle photo 4
Photo: 潘立傑 LICHIEH_PAN, CC BY
Greater Asian Lady Beetle photo 5
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0

Same family (Coccinellidae)

Asian Lady BeetleAsian Lady BeetleHarmonia axyridisCan biteSeven-spotted Lady BeetleSeven-spotted Lady BeetleCoccinella septempunctataConvergent Lady BeetleConvergent Lady BeetleHippodamia convergensCan biteFourteen-spotted Lady BeetleFourteen-spotted Lady BeetlePropylea quatuordecimpunctataVariegated Lady BeetleVariegated Lady BeetleHippodamia variegataSpotless Lady BeetleSpotless Lady BeetleCycloneda sanguinea

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonia_dimidiata

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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