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Two-spotted Lady Beetle
''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. Taxonomy The two-spotted ladybird was one of the many species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''; its original name was ''Coccinella bipunctata''. Its specific name is from the Latin ''bi-'' "two", and ''punctata'' "spotted". Description ''Adalia bipunctata'' is a small Coccinellid that can feature any one of a large selection of red and black forms. Some forms are similar to ''Mulsantina picta'', but the two white spots on the head of ''Adalia'' (in contrast with a large white region or more than two spots) readily separate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
