The #harlequinladybeetle #Harmonia #axyridis, occuring in various #colorvariants, originates from East #Asia but is now distributed almost #worldwide as #neozoan due to human measures and is established in #Germany since 2002. D. Lemic et al. (2021) have developed methods of #geometricmorphometrics to record regional differences in their body pattern. #Biodiversity
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Reference
D. Lemic (2021)
https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11082436
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