''Hong guerreroi'' is a species of
ladybird beetle
Coccinellidae () is a widespread family of small beetles ranging in size from . They are commonly known as ladybugs in North America and ladybirds in Great Britain. Some entomologists prefer the names ladybird beetles or lady beetles as they ...
which is in the genus
''Hong'' which has been rarely found and sighted, it was first described in 2013 in the province of
Cauquenes Los Ruiles National Reserve.
Food
''H. guerreroi'' is thought to feed off of
coccid
Scale insects are small insects of the order Hemiptera, suborder Sternorrhyncha. Of dramatically variable appearance and extreme sexual dimorphism, they comprise the infraorder Coccomorpha which is considered a more convenient grouping than the ...
s, like many other species from the
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...
Microweiseini.
See also
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''Hong''
References
Coccinellidae
Beetles described in 2013
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