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Coccinella miranda w. eggs and first instar larva Collage of a gravid female Coccinella miranda with the eggs she produced and a first instar larva that hatched from these. <br /> For complete story see with this image:<br /> <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/77086/coccinella_miranda.html" title="Coccinella miranda"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/3043/77086_thumb.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=135s3UZrLXy5%2FmLKJ6QziH4Vsto%3D" width="200" height="114" alt="Coccinella miranda Mostly quoted as an Canary Islands endemic, but there are some rumours it may have been recorder from Madeira too.<br /> After finding the ladybird in a slit under the headlight of the rental car I took her &quot;home&quot; for images.<br /> Overnight she:<br /> (a) Devoured a Coccinella larva found at the same road side stop and kept in the same tube - stupid, stupid me :o((<br /> (b) Deposited some eggs in the tube that I had kept her in (together with the other larva) :o)<br /> The eggs were transferred onto a leaf and were eventually taken home to try and document a development cycle, that to my knowledge is not available yet for this species on the internet, so here is a start ...<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/77099/coccinella_miranda_w._eggs_and_first_instar_larva.html Coccinella,Coccinella miranda,Coccinellidae,Coccinellinae,Geotagged,La Palma (Canary Islands),Ladybird,Spain" /></a></figure> Coccinella,Coccinella miranda,Coccinellidae,Coccinellinae,La Palma (Canary Islands),Ladybird,eggs,larva Click/tap to enlarge

Coccinella miranda w. eggs and first instar larva

Collage of a gravid female Coccinella miranda with the eggs she produced and a first instar larva that hatched from these.
For complete story see with this image:

Coccinella miranda Mostly quoted as an Canary Islands endemic, but there are some rumours it may have been recorder from Madeira too.<br /> After finding the ladybird in a slit under the headlight of the rental car I took her "home" for images.<br /> Overnight she:<br /> (a) Devoured a Coccinella larva found at the same road side stop and kept in the same tube - stupid, stupid me :o((<br /> (b) Deposited some eggs in the tube that I had kept her in (together with the other larva) :o)<br /> The eggs were transferred onto a leaf and were eventually taken home to try and document a development cycle, that to my knowledge is not available yet for this species on the internet, so here is a start ...<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/77099/coccinella_miranda_w._eggs_and_first_instar_larva.html Coccinella,Coccinella miranda,Coccinellidae,Coccinellinae,Geotagged,La Palma (Canary Islands),Ladybird,Spain

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    Ferdy Christant
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    Wonderful pioneering, Arp! Posted 6 years ago
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      Pudding4brains
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      Thanks Ferdy, more to come of these as they grow (I hope) ;o) Posted 6 years ago

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The Coccinella miranda

Coccinella miranda is a ladybird beetle in the subgenus Spilota of the genus Coccinella and as such most closely related to the continental European Coccinella undecimpunctata.

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