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title: "Ashy Gray Lady Beetle"
description: "Olla v-nigrum — Insetti e ragni. Olla v-nigrum is a species in the family Coccinellidae (\"lady beetles\"), in the suborder Polyphaga."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/ashy-gray-lady-beetle
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Ashy Gray Lady Beetle

> Olla v-nigrum — Insetti e ragni. Olla v-nigrum is a species in the family Coccinellidae ("lady beetles"), in the suborder Polyphaga.

- Scientific name: *Olla v-nigrum*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 15740
- Wikidata: [Q2844275](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2844275)
- iNaturalist taxon: [313246](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/313246)

## Names

- en: Ashy Gray Lady Beetle
- es: Catarina dálmata

## Countries with the most observations

US (10150), MX (1602), BR (933), AR (717), TW (164), ES (77), AU (46), JP (43), UY (37), NC (35), CO (30), PF (30)

## Summary

Olla v-nigrum is a species in the family Coccinellidae ("lady beetles"), in the suborder Polyphaga. The species is known generally as the ashy gray lady beetle. The distribution range of Olla v-nigrum includes Central America, North America, and Oceania. It is usually gray or pale tan with small black spots on its elytra and thorax. However, a variation can resemble Chilocorus orbus, another species of lady beetle. This form is black with two red spots on the wing covers and has white on the edge of the prothorax.

The V in its name (v-nigrum) comes from the fact that Mulsant originally described the "prothorax"…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olla_v-nigrum

## Photo

![Ashy Gray Lady Beetle](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/ashy-gray-lady-beetle/medium.jpg)

Photo: Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/371509248

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/ashy-gray-lady-beetle?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).