''Brumoides suturalis'', the three-striped lady-beetle, is a species of
ladybird
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described by
Johan Christian Fabricius
Johann Christian Fabricius (7 January 1745 – 3 March 1808) was a Danish zoologist, specialising in "Insecta", which at that time included all arthropods: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others. He was a student of Carl Linnaeus, and is co ...
in 1789. It is found in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Indonesia, Philippines and Papua New Guinea.
Description
Adult is small and ovate. Head and thorax are brown. Eyes are black. Elytra yellowish white with two black stripes. One strip runs down the trailing edge, whereas the other stripe runs the middle of each elytron. Pronotum brownish anterio-laterally and creamy in the center. Scutellum and ventrum brownish.
Biology
Adult female lays egg cluster of 2 to 20.within shingle-like crevices made by overlapping leaves in curled leaves, or sometimes at the junction of leaf and stem. Eggs are yellowish with orange tinge. Larva undergo four instars. Newly hatched instar is smoky grey and fuzzy. With each moult, body becomes more elongated with spiny projections over the body.
It is known to feed on wide variety of aphids: ''
Aphis craccivora
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Aphis gossypii
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Myzus persicae
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Bemisia tabaci
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Parlatoria
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Quadraspidiotus perniciosus
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Phthorimaea operculella
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Acyrthosiphon pisum
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