| Two-spotted lady beetle
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| Scientific classification
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Arthropoda
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| Class:
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Insecta
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| Order:
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Coleoptera
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| Suborder:
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Polyphaga
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| Infraorder:
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Cucujiformia
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| Family:
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Coccinellidae
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| Genus:
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Adalia
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| Species:
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A. bipunctata
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| Binomial name
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Adalia bipunctata
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| Synonyms
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- Coccinella bipunctata Linnaeus, 1758
- Coccinella pantherina Linnaeus, 1758
- Coccinella sexpustulata Linnaeus, 1758
- Coccinella quadrimaculata Scopoli, 1763
- Coccinella annulata Voet, 1766
- Coccinella cincta O.F. Müller, 1776
- Coccinella octoguttata Sulzer, 1776
- Coccinella unifasciata Fabricius, 1777
- Coccinella tripunctata Roemer, 1789
- Coccinella tripustulata Gmelin, 1790
- Coccinella hastata Olivier, 1791
- Coccinella dispar Schneider, 1792
- Coccinella arctica Thunberg, 1795
- Coccinella varia Schrank, 1798
- Coccinella hyperborea Paykull, 1799
- Coccinella perforata Marsham, 1802
- Coccinella septempustulata Marsham, 1802
- Coccinella bisquadripustulata Haworth, 1812
- Coccinella bistriverrucata Haworth, 1812
- Coccinella quadripunctata Donovan, 1813
- Coccinella bioculata Say, 1824
- Coccinella humeralis Say, 1824
- Coccinella fasciatopunctata Faldermann, 1835
- Coccinella disjuncta Randall, 1838
- Adalia ophthalmica Mulsant, 1850
- Adalia stictica Mulsant, 1850
- Coccinella melanopleura Le Conte, 1859
- Adalia ludovicae Mulsant, 1866
- Adalia revelierii Mulsant, 1866
- Coccinella annectens Crotch, 1873
- Adalia concolor Wimmel, 1894
- Adalia ornatella Casey, 1899
- Adalia ovipennis Casey, 1899
- Adalia transversalis Casey, 1899
- Adalia bipunctata var. similata Gabriel, 1905
- Adalia coloradensis Casey, 1908
- Arrowella porteri Brèthes, 1925
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Adalia bipunctata, the two-spot ladybird, two-spotted ladybug or two-spotted lady beetle, is a carnivorous beetle of the family Coccinellidae that is found throughout the holarctic region. It is very common in western and central Europe. It is also native to North America but it has heavily declined in many states and provinces. It is commonly introduced and imported as a biological control agent.