Cleobora
Appearance
Cleobora mellyi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Coccinellidae |
Genus: | Cleobora Mulsant, 1850 |
Species: | C. mellyi
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Binomial name | |
Cleobora mellyi |
Cleobora is a monotypic genus of ladybird native to Tasmania and the southern states of mainland Australia. Its only recognized species is Cleobora mellyi, the Tasmanian ladybird or southern ladybird.[2] It is in the Coccinellini tribe[1] of the subfamily Coccinellinae.
C. mellyi was introduced to New Zealand in 1977 as a biological control agent against the eucalypt tortoise beetle, Paropsis charybdis, with mixed results.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Cleobora mellyi (Mulsant)". CSIRO. Retrieved 16 March 2009.
- ^ "Cleobora mellyi Mulsant". CSIRO. Archived from the original on 6 March 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2009.
- ^ "Control of eucalypt and blackwood pests with the southern lady bird Cleobora mellyi – a possibility?". nzffa.org.nz. 2010. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
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