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.

Cleobora mellyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Coccinellidae
Genus:	Cleobora Mulsant, 1850
Species:	C. mellyi
Binomial name
Cleobora mellyi (Mulsant, 1850) [1]

C. mellyi was introduced to New Zealand in 1977 as a biological control agent against the eucalypt tortoise beetle, Paropsis charybdis, with mixed results.^[3]