Sixteen-spotted Lady Beetle

Harmonia sedecimnotata · Order: Coleoptera · Family: Coccinellidae

Also called: 16 Spot Ladybird Beetle, Sixteen-spotted Ladybird Beetle

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Sixteen-spotted Lady Beetle
Photo: Pudding4brains, Public domain

Adults are about 6 to 7 mm long. They are yellow-brown with two black spots on the pronotum and eight black spots on each elytron.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

They are yellow-brown and have two black spots on the pronotum plus eight black spots on each wing cover.

Source: Wikipedia

Size

Adults measure roughly 6 to 7 mm in length.

Source: Wikipedia

What it eats

They are predators that feed on other small insects.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Their range includes southern China, eastern India, Nepal and parts of Southeast Asia.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

Sixteen-spotted Lady Beetle photo 2
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Sixteen-spotted Lady Beetle photo 3
Photo: Pudding4brains, Public domain
Sixteen-spotted Lady Beetle photo 4
Photo: Pudding4brains, Public domain
Sixteen-spotted Lady Beetle photo 5
Photo: Pudding4brains, Public domain

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_sedecimnotata

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Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-23.

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