Coccinellidae (coccinellidae; lady beetles)
Insecta, Coleoptera 1 family, also known as a Section ladle.
Medium and small; body round the back of Long, belly flat; tarsus as a hidden four classes; often with a distinctive splash of beetles. Undergraduate insects known as ladybugs. Feed on plants aphids, scale insects, whiteflies, spider mites and so on. Although a small number of ladybugs damage crops, but most species are natural enemies of crop pests.
Coleoptera, Coccinellidae and other sections of the main differences are:
① Typical tarsus hidden four classes for the first two large, in particular small section 3, section 4, particularly slender, Section 3,4 fused, slender, with claw end of said section, from the first 2 section or division out of the depression; some types of Section 3 and Section 4 degradation or healing, so with only one claw-side section; but in four ladybug subfamily, with the first two sections are not particularly large, small and not particularly section 3, section 4, not particularly slender, form 4 type;
② visible in the base section 1 of the web after a nest after the baseline, only a few with this feature is not;
③ the jaw to be distal ax-like, on both sides of the end of the expansion, or both sides parallel to each other; if both sides of the narrow end, at least the front thinning and _truncate_d; but Xiao-Yan ladybug to be distal tapered jaw subfamily , long conical, oval or cylindrical and the end of the narrowing.
Most ladybugs also has the three characteristics. Only a few groups have only two of the features.
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Epilachninae