[1] It is found throughout India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Micronesia, and Australia.

After split open the eggs at the apical portion, grubs starts to wriggled out.

The neonate grubs remained on egg case for some time and then moved towards prey for feeding.

First instar larva is dark greyish and covered with spiny structures all over the body.

Legs are also darker in color which are comparatively longer and articulated with oval shaped body.

Freshly moulted third instar is dark grey to black with orange spots.

The full grown fourth instar larva stops feeding and became sluggish with swollen body.

[5] During emergence, adult stays for few hours on the pupal case until the body gets hardened.

Later, adults turns to yellowish orange with black spots on pronotum and elytra.

Male beetle is small, oval, dorsally convex and ventrally flat.

Female similar to male, but large in size with an average body length from 6.20 to 6.88 mm.

[4] It is also a known predator of Phenacoccus solenopsis a major pest on cotton,[6] and the moth species, Spodoptera frugiperda.