Scymnus auritus is a species of beetle in family Coccinellidae.

black ladybird associated with Quercus robur woodland.

In Central Europe it is a mainly found in deciduous forests, groves, and light forests.

In spring, the beetles were found on flowering Prunus padus and Crataegus monogyna and later, on oaks and Tilia × europaea[3] The insects feed on aphids on oaks, less frequently on other trees.

[4][5] S. auritus was also reported as a predator of mites occurring on the underside of oak leaves; it also feeds on Phylloxeridae[6] Europe, Cyprus, European Russia, the Caucasus, Siberia, the Russian Far East; Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Transcaucasia, Middle Asia, Western Asia, China.