Adalia decempunctata, the ten-spotted ladybird or ten-spotted lady beetle, is a carnivorous beetle of the family Coccinellidae. The ten-spotted ladybird was one of the many species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae, its original name was Coccinella decempunctata. Its specific name from the Latin decem "ten", and punctata "spotted".
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Adalia decempunctata across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Documented compounds1 total
Compound
Class
Amount
Source
(6R)-6-(2-oxopropyl)-6-pentylpiperidin-2-one
present
LOTUS
05DNA & barcoding86 specimens
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Adalia decempunctata has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens86
BINs1
Marker genes3
eDNA detections272
Countries15
The DNA barcodethe species' typical barcode, built from every sequenced specimen
COI-5P658 bp consensus62 specimens
ACGT
▸ drag or hover over the strip to read any position — letter and how much it varies
Violet ticks below the strip = positions where individuals differ; flat = the species' unchanging signature. 99% of positions are identical in every specimen.
Where individuals differ — all 4 variable positions, in barcode order
Each circle is a barcode variant; bigger = more specimens, colour = region. Lines join the most similar variants and the tick marks count the mutations between them — a tight cluster is one “dialect”, a long line a more divergent lineage. Click a circle to list its actual specimens.
Diversity (π)0.59%
Haplotypes3
BIN1
Most divergent pair0.76%
Europe
Closest relatives by DNA barcode
The species whose COI barcode is most similar to this one — a quick “who is this most like”. The percentage is how much the barcode differs; it approximates, but is not, the full evolutionary tree.
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
★COI-3P★COI-5P18S-5P
animal barcoderibosomal
06Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI
The complete instruction manualAdalia decempunctata carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Genome size≈489 433 454 bp assembly estimate
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb
FUNGUS0.04 Gb
INSECT0.25 Gb
THIS GENOME Adalia decempunctata0.49 Gb
HUMAN3.2 Gb
WHEAT17 Gb
FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
Assembly levelChromosome
Completeness97.2% BUSCO
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type66 162 records
Wild obs. + sensor60 076
Museum / vouchered6 015
Cultivated / captive16
Fossil4
Other51
Origin
Native1 192
Introduced2
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO85 268 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy59% within 1 km
≤100 m 24 890≤1 km 7 197≤10 km 21 853>10 km 431
54 371 georeferenced · 5 705 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor60 076
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy25% within 1 km
≤100 m 385≤1 km 960≤10 km 3 800>10 km 286
5 431 georeferenced · 584 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence6 015
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy
no georeferenced coordinates · 16 records without
Open the mapnot free-living16
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions23 of 64 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Brussel, BE
1 265
Bern, CH
514
Museum Ludovicae Ulricae, Zoology Institute of the University of Uppsalalocation not on record
446
Geneva, CH
386
Zürich, CH
303
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record
238
CBDClocation not on record
206
Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiulocation not on record
187
Olocation not on record
112
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
110
Salzburg, AT
100
NHMOlocation not on record
94
Naturéum — Muséum cantonal des sciences naturelles, Lausanne, Département Zoologielocation not on record
89
Museo civico di Storia naturale Giacomo Doria di Genova | Giacomo Doria Natural History Museum in Genoalocation not on record
86
Zoological Museum of the University of Chittagong, Bangladeshlocation not on record
84
Laboratorium voor Microbiologie der Landbouwhogeschoollocation not on record
71
Naturmuseum Solothurnlocation not on record
66
Helsinki, FI
62
Trondheim, NO
60
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
55
Tilburg, NL
51
Fribourg, CH
50
Sion, CH
42
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
33
Frauenfeld, CH
30
NMOKlocation not on record
28
NCMGlocation not on record
28
Nijmegen, NL
23
BioFokuslocation not on record
22
Tartu, EE
22
MZLUlocation not on record
22
Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiejlocation not on record
20
South Kensington, GB
20
Dhaka, BD
19
neflocation not on record
19
Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record
13
ZSMlocation not on record
11
CIBIOlocation not on record
11
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
11
Philadelphia, US
9
LEBAlocation not on record
9
LSMlocation not on record
8
Tallinn, EE
8
Paris, FR
8
Natural History Museum, Londonlocation not on record
6
Metsähallituslocation not on record
5
Vitoria, ES
4
Musee d'Histoire Naturallelocation not on record
4
Paro, BT
4
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznańlocation not on record
3
Tromsø, NO
2
Naturmuseum St. Gallenlocation not on record
2
UGRlocation not on record
2
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)location not on record
2
Barcelona, ES
2
NTNU University Museum, Department of Natural Historylocation not on record
2
UAclocation not on record
2
Naturhistorisches Museum Wienlocation not on record
1
NMBU:MINAlocation not on record
1
Museo civico Brancaleoni di Piobbicolocation not on record
1
DFlocation not on record
1
IFR-DNFlocation not on record
1
University of Oulu, Zoological Museumlocation not on record
1
Kuopio, FI
1
64 institutions · 5 098 of 6 015 vouchered records shown · 909 without an institution code
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
09Environmental DNA272 detections
Where the DNA of Adalia decempunctata was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Detections DNA found272
Studies independent surveys4
Countries15
Verifiable raw sequence linked174
Signal confidence: moderateweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median13.9 °C 5.90–17.2
Seasonal swing summer↔winter17.1 °C
Max temp (day)17.4 °C 9.00–20.8
Min temp (night)10.7 °C 2.20–13.5
Precipitation64.1 mm/mo 40.3–81.7
Air humidity60.7 % 58.0–63.9
Moisture balance-50.3 mm/mo -66.3–27.9
Vapour deficit623 Pa 360–772
Wind speed3.70 m/s 2.50–5.00
Cloud cover42.6 % 38.5–51.7
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 261 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility66 162 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI272 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics86 specimens↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗