Exochomus octosignatus is a species of beetle of the family Coccinellidae. It is found on Corsica and Sicily and in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, southern Russia, central Asia, Korea and Mongolia.
Description Adults reach a length of about in males and about in females. The head and antennae are reddish-orange. The pronotum is reddish-orange a black spot before the scutellum. The scutellum is black and the elytra are reddish-orange with a somewhat darker border and each elytron with four black spots.
Life history They have been recorded preying on aphids, including Aphis craccivora, Macrosiphum jaceae, Xerobion eriosomatinum, Xerophilaphis zawadovskii, Xerophilaphis atraphaxidis and Ephedraphis ephedrae, as well as on the larvae of Phytonomus variabilis.
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