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Genus | Species | Food, host plants, and habitats |
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UK |
Adalia | A. bipunctata | Various herbaceous and arboreal habitats |
A. decempunctata | Various arboreal habitats, but more specialized than A. bipunctata |
Chilocorus | C. renipustulatus | Coccids; broad-leaved deciduous trees |
C. bipustulatus | Coccids; Calluna, Leyland cypress, and other trees; heathland |
Coccidula | C. rufa | Reeds, reed-mace, rushes, and wetland grasses |
C. scutellata | Reeds, reed-mace, and rushes |
Coccinella | C. undecimpunctata | Aphids; herbaceous habitats, especially in coastal areas |
C. quinquepunctata | Aphids; low-growing herbaceous plants such as nettle, thistles, bitter-cress, and angelica; unstable river shingle |
C. septempunctata | A variety of aphid species on an extensive range of low-growing herbaceous host plants; habitats including agroecosystem, grassland, heathland, and coniferous and deciduous woodland |
C. magnifica | Ant-attended aphids; Scots pine and other plants close to ant nests of genus Formica |
C. hieroglyphica | Larvae of the heather leaf beetle Lochmaea suturalis and the heather aphid Aphis callunae |
Nephus | N. bisignatus | Low-growing vegetation in coastal regions |
N. quadrimaculatus | Coniferous and deciduous woodlands |
N. redtenbacheri | Various low-growing vegetation in both inland and coastal regions |
Scymnus | S. nigrinus | Needleleaf conifers |
S. frontalis | Low-growing vegetation in dry habitats and on coastal dunes |
S. femoralis | Low-growing vegetation on well-drained soils |
S. schmidti | Various types of low-growing vegetation |
S. haemorrhoidalis | Low-growing vegetation and small shrubs, particularly in damp areas |
S. auritus | Oak trees |
S. limbatus | Willow, sallow, and poplar trees |
S. suturalis | Needleleaf conifers, occasionally deciduous trees |
S. interruptus | Pseudococcids and diaspidids in diverse habitats |
Rhyzobius | R. chrysomeloides | Pine trees, deciduous trees, and ivy |
R. litura | Low-growing vegetation, especially grasses and thistles |
R. lophanthae | Coccids and diaspidids on trees |
Japan |
Calvia | C. quindecimguttata | Reeds |
C. muiri | Various habitats, especially bamboo grasses |
Chilocorus | C. kuwanae | Coccids such as Pseudaulacaspis pentagona |
C. rubidus | Kermococcus coccids on plum, cherry, chestnut, and oak |
C. mikado | Quercus gilva |
Harmonia | H. axyridis | Various habitats, mainly arboreal |
H. yedoensis | Pine trees |
Oenopia | O. scalaris | Pine trees |
O. hirayamai | Various arboreal habitats |
Pseudoscymnus | P. sylvaticus | Inside galls of Tuberocephalus sasakii on cherry and of Ceratovacuna nekoashi on storax |
P. pilicrepus | Eusocial aphid Colophina arma on the subshrub Clematis stans |
Scymnus | S. posticalis | Various herbaceous and arboreal habitats |
S. yamato | Wetland, mainly on reeds |
S. babai | Wetland |
S. ohtai | Wetland |
S. hoffmanni | Wetland |
S. nakaikemensis | Wetland |
S. otohime | Chestnut; prey is Moritziella castaneivora, which infects chestnut cases |
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