Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus, 1758

Ali, Muhammad, Ahmed, Khalil, Ali, Shaukat, Raza, Ghulam, Hussain, Ishtiaq, Nafees, Maisoor Ahmed & Anjum, Syed Ishtiaq, 2018, An annotated checklist of Coccinellidae with four new records from Pakistan (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae), ZooKeys 803, pp. 93-120 : 93

Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus, 1758 Fig. 1

General distribution.

India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Palaearctic. North America (Poorani 2002).

Distribution in Sindh.

Tandojam, Larkana, Mirpur Khas, Thatta, Karachi (Sarwar 2009, Mahmood et al. 2011, Ali 2013, Fazal Ellahi et al. 2017).

Host plants and prey species in Sindh.

Brevicoryne brassicae (L), Lipaphis erysimi (Kaltenbach), Myzus persicae (Sulzer), Aphis gossypii (Glover), Hyadaphis coriandri (Das), Hysteroneura setariae (Thomas), Schizaphis graminum (Rondani) ( Aphididae : Homoptera); Phenacoccus solenopsis (Tinsley), Ferrisia virigata (Ckll) ( Pseudococcidae : Homoptera); Amrasca devastans (Dist), Amrasca biguttula biguttula (Ishida) ( Cicadellidae : Homoptera); Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) ( Aleyrodidae : Homoptera) on mustard, lucern, cabbage, cauliflower, potato, turnip, bottle gourd, eggplant, okra, wheat, cotton, sugarcane, and rose plants (Ali 2013).