Belgian Coccinellidae - Ladybird beetles in Belgium

Tim Adriaens; Gilles San Martin y Gomez; Dirk Maes; Dimitri Brosens; Peter Desmet

doi:10.15468/0refva

Belgian Coccinellidae - Ladybird beetles in Belgium

Citation

Adriaens T, San Martin y Gomez G, Maes D, Brosens D, Desmet P (2021). Belgian Coccinellidae - Ladybird beetles in Belgium. Version 1.4. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/0refva accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-03-22.

Description

The Belgian Coccinellidae dataset which is published, is the result of a merge of 4 datasets. The INBO (Research Institute for Nature and Forest; Flemish Region Database), the DFF database (The Walloon Region Database), Observations.be data provided by Natagora (The Walloon Region and Brussels Capital Region) and the Walloon Region Online Encoding Tool (DEMNA - OFFH, observatoire.biodiversite.wallonie.be/encodage) data. At present, the database contains about 80.000 records, of which 15% come from museum collections and literature data. Collection events minimally consist of species, number of individuals, stage (adults, larvae and pupae), observation date, observer and location. Original locations as well as collection material were attributed to 1x1 km or 5x5 km grid cells of the UTM grid (Universal Transverse Mercator). A large part of the Belgian territory has been surveyed for ladybird beetles: the database contains records for at least 85% of all 5x5km UTM grid cells (N = 1376) in Belgium. Additionally, data on substratum plants, height in the vegetation, sampling method, habitat type, surrounding landscape, slope orientation, soil type, humidity, vegetation cover and behaviour were noted. In 1999, the Belgian Ladybird Working Group Coccinula launched a large scale field survey on 40 native ladybird species (Coccinellinae, Chilocorinae and Epilachninae) and to date has more than 500 volunteers providing distribution data. They actively search for ladybird beetles in a variety of habitats using sweep nets, beating trays, visual search, light trapping, pitfall traps and other sampling methods. Distribution, habitat and substrate plant information is also noted on a standard recording form. The working group maintains a database of observations, literature and collection data of Coccinellidae from 1800 onwards. Preliminary atlases have been published for the whole Belgian territory (Branquart et al., 1999; Adriaens and Maes, 2004) and updated distribution maps are available online, on demand and through the working group's newsletter. The published dataset contains most of the data maintained by the working group. For the time being, only the original INBO database is published.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

In 1999, the Belgian Ladybird Working Group Coccinula launched a large scale field survey on 40 native ladybird species (Coccinellinae, Chilocorinae and Epilachninae) and to date has more than 500 volunteers providing distribution data. They actively search for ladybird beetles in a variety of habitats using sweep nets, beating trays, visual search, light trapping, pitfall traps and other sampling methods. Distribution, habitat and substrate plant information is also noted on a standard recording form. The working group maintains a database of observations, literature and collection data of Coccinellidae from 1800 onwards. Preliminary atlases have been published for the whole Belgian territory (Branquart et al., 1999; Adriaens and Maes, 2004) and updated distribution maps are available online, on demand and through the working group's newsletter.

Sampling

Collection events minimally consist of species, number of individuals, stage (adults, larvae and pupae), observation date, observer and location. Locations are attributed to 1x1 km or 5x5 km grid cells of the UTM grid (Universal Transverse Mercator). At present, the database contains about 60.000 records, of which 15% come from museum collections and literature data. A large part of the Belgian territory has now been surveyed for ladybird beetles: the database contains records for 85% of all 5x5km UTM grid cells (N = 1376) in Belgium. Additionally, information on substratum plants, height in the vegetation, sampling method, habitat type, surrounding landscape, slope orientation, soil type, humidity, vegetation cover and behaviour was noted on the recording form. In certain cases Individualcount is an estimate of the actual number of specimen present.

Quality Control

All records are validated.

Method steps

More than 500 volunteers providing distribution data. They actively search for ladybird beetles in a variety of habitats using sweep nets, beating trays, visual search, light trapping, pitfall traps, and other sampling methods.

Additional info

To allow anyone to use this dataset, we have released the data to the public domain under a Creative Commons Zero waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). We would appreciate however, if you read and follow these norms for data use (http://www.inbo.be/en/norms-for-data-use) and provide a link to the original dataset whenever possible. If you use these data for a scientific paper, please cite the dataset following the applicable citation norms and/or consider us for co-authorship. We are always interested to know how you have used or visualized the data, or to provide more information, so please contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata, opendata@inbo.be or https://twitter.com/LifeWatchINBO. For any further use of the dataset, first contact Tim Adriaens (Tim.adriaens@inbo.be)

Taxonomic Coverages

All species in this dataset are ladybird beetles (Coccinellidae). The top 3 recorded species are Coccinella septempunctata (15%), the invasive Harmonia axyridis (13%), and Propylea quatuordecimpunctata (10%).

Animalia
common name: animals rank: kingdom
Arthropoda
rank: phylum
Insecta
common name: insects rank: class
Coccinellidae
common name: ladybird beetles rank: family
Adalia bipunctata
common name: two-spot ladybird rank: species
Adalia decempunctata
common name: ten-spotted ladybird rank: species
Anatis ocellata
common name: eyed ladybird rank: species
Anisosticta novemdecimpunctata
common name: water ladybird rank: species
Aphidecta obliterata
common name: larch ladybird rank: species
Calvia decemguttata
rank: species
Calvia quatuordecimguttata
common name: cream-spot ladybird rank: species
Calvia quindecimguttata
rank: species
Chilocorus bipustulatus
common name: heather ladybird rank: species
Chilocorus renipustulatus
common name: kidney-spot ladybird rank: species
Clitostethus arcuatus
rank: species
Coccidula rufa
rank: species
Coccidula scutellata
rank: species
Coccinella hieroglyphica
common name: hieroglyphic ladybird rank: species
Coccinella magnifica
common name: scarce seven-spotted ladybird rank: species
Coccinella quinquepunctata
common name: five-spot ladybird rank: species
Coccinella septempunctata
common name: seven-spot ladybird rank: species
Coccinella undecimpunctata
common name: eleven-spot ladybird rank: species
Coccinula quatuordecimpustulata
rank: species
Cryptolaemus montrouzieri
rank: species
Cynegetis impunctata
rank: species
Exochomus nigromaculatus
rank: species
Exochomus quadripustulatus
common name: pine ladybird rank: species
Halyzia sedecimguttata
common name: orange ladybird rank: species
Harmonia axyridis
common name: harlequin ladybird rank: species
Harmonia quadripunctata
common name: cream-streaked ladybird rank: species
Henosepilachna argus
common name: bryony ladybird rank: species
Hippodamia septemmaculata
rank: species
Hippodamia tredecimpunctata
common name: thirteen-spot ladybird rank: species
Hippodamia variegata
common name: Adonis ladybird rank: species
Hyperaspis campestris
rank: species
Hyperaspis concolor
rank: species
Myrrha octodecimguttata
common name: 18-spot ladybird rank: species
Myzia oblongoguttata
common name: striped ladybird rank: species
Nephus bipunctatus
rank: species
Nephus quadrimaculatus
rank: species
Nephus redtenbacheri
rank: species
Oenopia conglobata
rank: species
Oenopia impustulata
rank: species
Platynaspis luteorubra
rank: species
Propylea quatuordecimpunctata
common name: 14-spot ladybird rank: species
Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata
common name: 22-spot ladybird rank: species
Rhyzobius chrysomeloides
rank: species
Rhyzobius forestieri
rank: species
Rhyzobius litura
rank: species
Scymnus abietis
rank: species
Scymnus apetzi
rank: species
Scymnus ater
rank: species
Scymnus auritus
rank: species
Scymnus femoralis
rank: species
Scymnus ferrugatus
rank: species
Scymnus frontalis
rank: species
Scymnus haemorrhoidalis
rank: species
Scymnus interruptus
rank: species
Scymnus limbatus
rank: species
Scymnus mimulus
rank: species
Scymnus nigrinus
rank: species
Scymnus pallipediformis
rank: species
Scymnus rubromaculatus
rank: species
Scymnus rufipes
rank: species
Scymnus suturalis
rank: species
Sospita vigintiguttata
rank: species
Stethorus punctillum
rank: species
Subcoccinella vigintiquatuorpunctata
common name: 24-spot ladybird rank: species
Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata
common name: 16-spot ladybird rank: species
Vibidia duodecimguttata
rank: species
Coleoptera
common name: beetles rank: order

Geographic Coverages

The Belgian Coccinellidae dataset deals with Ladybirds occurrences in Belgian. The INBO subset deals with occurrences pertaining to Flanders, one of the regions and communities of Belgium.

Bibliographic Citations

Branquart E., Maes D. (2003). Update van de verspreiding van de Belgische lieveheersbeestjes. Coccinula, Newsletter of the Belgian Ladybird Working Group 7: 5-23. -
Adriaens T., San Martin G., Maes D. (2008). Invasion history, habitat preferences and phenology of the invasive ladybird Harmonia axyridis in Belgium. BioControl 53(1): 69-88. -
Adriaens T., Branquart E., Maes D. (2003). The Multicoloured Asian Ladybird Harmonia axyridis Pallas (Coleoptera : Coccinellidae), a threat for native aphid predators in Belgium? Belgian Journal of Zoology 133(2): 195-196. -
Helen E. Roy, Tim Adriaens, Nick J. B. Isaac, Marc Kenis, Thierry Onkelinx, Gilles San Martin, Peter M. J. Brown, Louis Hautier, Remy Poland, David B. Roy, Richard Comont, René Eschen, Robert Frost, Renate Zindel, Johan Van Vlaenderen, Oldřich Nedvěd, Hans Peter Ravn, Jean-Claude Grégoire, Jean-Christophe de Biseau, Dirk Maes (2012). Invasive alien predator causes rapid declines of native European ladybirds. Diversity and Distributions (2012) 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00883.x - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00883.x
Kenis M., Adriaens T., Brown P., Katsanis A., Van Vlaenderen J., Eschen R., Golaz L., Zindel R., San Martin G., Babendreier D., Ware R. (2010). Impact of Harmonia axyridis on European ladybirds: which species are most at risk? IOBS/wprs Bulletin 58: 1-3. -
Adriaens T. & Maes D. (2004). Voorlopige verspreidingsatlas van lieveheersbeestjes in Vlaanderen, resultaten van het lieveheersbeestjesproject van de jeugdbonden. Bertram 2 (1bis): 1-69. http://www.inbo.be/docupload/1436.pdf -
Kenis, M., Adriaens, T., Brown, P. M. J., Katsanis, A., San Martin, G., Branquart, E., Maes, D., Eschen, R., Zindel, R., Van Vlaenderen, J., Babendreier, D., Roy, H. E., Hautier, L. & Poland, R. L. (2017) Assessing the ecological risk posed by a recently established invasive alien predator: Harmonia axyridis as a case study. BioControl 62(3):341-354 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10526-016-9764-x
Adriaens, T., San Martin y Gomez, G., Bogaert, J., Crevecoeur, L., Beuckx, J-P. & Maes, D. (2015) Testing the applicability of regional IUCN Red List criteria on ladybirds (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) in Flanders (north Belgium): opportunities for conservation. Insect Conservation and Diversity 8(5): 404-417. - https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12124

Contacts

Tim Adriaens
originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
email: tim.adriaens@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7268-4200

Gilles San Martin y Gomez
originator
Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)
BE
email: gilles.sanmartin@gmail.com

Dirk Maes
originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
email: dirk.maes@inbo.be
userId: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/B-1819-2009

Dimitri Brosens
originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) / Belgian Biodiversity Platform
BE
email: dimitri.brosens@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0846-9116

Peter Desmet
originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
email: peter.desmet@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-8025

Tim Adriaens
metadata author
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
email: tim.adriaens@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7268-4200

Dimitri Brosens
metadata author
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) / Belgian Biodiversity Platform
BE
email: dimitri.brosens@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0846-9116

Peter Desmet
metadata author
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
email: peter.desmet@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-8025

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Belgian ladybirds working group
BE

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Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
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