Author | Majerus, M. & Kearns, P. |
Year | 1989 |
Title | Ladybirds |
ISBN | 0 85546 267 1 |
Series | Naturalists’ Handbooks |
Type | Book/Report |
How Complete | Field key to Ladybirds, microscope key covers all UK species known at the time |
Source | Naturalists’ Handbooks, 10, 103pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd |
Illustrations | Line drawings alongside text, plus four colour plates of paintings bound in the centre |
Review (by Malcolm Storey) | Dichotomous field keys to adults and fourth instar larvae, and more rigorous key to adults requiring stereo-microscope examination of specimens. |
Errata, Corrigenda & Comments | Key to Larvae p77, diagrams III.5 and III.6 reversed. Key to adults: p71: *Aphidecta* could key out to couplet 24 as it has elongate body and raised border to central projection of first sternite. |
Examine | with x8 or x10 hand lens ( Stereo Microscope is also useful) |
Specimen Preparation | Live specimens |
Identification difficulty | Fairly straightforward. Much easier than Pope’s RES Handbook. |
Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
---|---|---|---|---|
For identification | Current | COCCINELLIDAE | ladybirds, ladybugs | Animalia: Coleoptera |
For identification, colour varieties | Current | Adalia bipunctata | Two-spot Ladybird, 2-spot Ladybird | Animalia: Coleoptera: Coccinellidae |
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