Adalia decempunctata

Ten-spotted lady beetle
	Adalia decempunctata. Forma typica
	Larva of Adalia decempunctata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Coccinellidae
Genus:	Adalia
Species:	A. decempunctata
Binomial name
	Adalia decempunctata; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	List Adalia (Adalia) decempunctata (Linnaeus, 1758) ; Coccinella decempunctata Linnaeus, 1758 ; Coccinella decempustulata Linnaeus, 1758 ; Coccinella guttatopunctata Linnaeus, 1758 ; Coccinella bimaculata Pontoppidan, 1763 ; Coccinella quadripunctata Linnaeus, 1767 ; Coccinella sexpunctata Linnaeus, 1767 ; Coccinella tredecimmaculata Forster, 1771 ; Coccinella octopunctata Fabricius, 1775 ; Coccinella pantherina DeGeer, 1775 ; Coccinella didyma O.F. Müller, 1776 ; Coccinella austriaca Schrank, 1777 ; Coccinella flava Goeze, 1777 ; Coccinella variabilis Fabricius, 1777 ; Coccinella subpunctata Schrank, 1781 ; Coccinella bipustulata Herbst, 1783 ; Coccinella humeralis Schaller, 1783 ; Coccinella marginata Thunberg, 1784 ; Coccinella tredecimnotata Thunberg, 1784 ; Coccinella bimaculosa Herbst, 1786 ; Coccinella biguttata Fabricius, 1787 ; Coccinella limbata Gmelin, 1790 ; Coccinella lunigera Brahm, 1790 ; Coccinella mutabilis Gmelin, 1790 ; Coccinella thunbergi Gmelin, 1790 ; Coccinella ulmi Olivier, 1791 ; Coccinella unifasciata Scriba, 1791 ; Coccinella varians Olivier, 1791 ; Coccinella lutea Rossi, 1794 ; Coccinella marginella Thunberg, 1795 ; Coccinella sexmaculata Thunberg, 1795 ; Coccinella similata Thunberg, 1795 ; Coccinella tricuspis Thunberg, 1795 ; Coccinella lunularis Marsham, 1802 ; Coccinella marginepunctata Marsham, 1802 ; Coccinella curvipustulata Haworth, 1812 ; Coccinella lunaepustulata Haworth, 1812 ; Coccinella clathrata Schaufuss, 1862 ;

Adalia decempunctata, the ten-spotted ladybird or ten-spotted lady beetle, is a carnivorous beetle of the family Coccinellidae.

The ten-spotted ladybird was one of the many species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae, its original name was Coccinella decempunctata. Its specific name from the Latin decem "ten", and punctata "spotted".

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