Bug FAQStriped Ladybird
Micraspis frenata · Order: Coleoptera · Family: Coccinellidae
Adults are only a few millimetres long, about 3.7 to 4.7 mm. They have a yellow head, a partly yellow pronotum, a black scutellum, and yellow elytra edged in black with a dorsal stripe. The striped ladybird lives in Tasmania, eastern Australia, and also occurs in New Caledonia.
Source: Wikipedia
How to recognize it
The head is yellow and the front of the pronotum is yellow, while the base of the pronotum is black with a transparent side edge. The scutellum is black and the wing covers are yellow with black borders, a black suture line, and a central black stripe.
Source: Wikipedia
Size
Adults measure about 3.7 to 4.7 mm in length (roughly 0.15 to 0.19 in).
Source: Wikipedia
Where it comes from
It is native to Tasmania and the eastern mainland states of Australia. It is also found in New Caledonia.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 1 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Pennsylvania.
Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.
Source: GBIF
Same family (Coccinellidae)
Sources
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micraspis_frenata
Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · Wikipedia
Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.