Cleobora

Cleobora is a monotypic genus of ladybird native to Tasmania and the southern states of mainland Australia.

Its only recognized species is Cleobora mellyi, the Tasmanian ladybird or southern ladybird.

[2] It is in the Coccinellini tribe[1] of the subfamily Coccinellinae.

C. mellyi was introduced to New Zealand in 1977 as a biological control agent against the eucalypt tortoise beetle, Paropsis charybdis, with mixed results.

This Coccinellidae-related article is a stub.