title: Pseudaspidimerus uttami
text: # Pseudaspidimerus uttami
  
  Pseudaspidimerus uttami is a species of lady beetle native to India and Sri Lanka.
  
  ## Description
  
  Body primarily black, with yellowish anterior corners of pronotum. Elytra with two oval rounded discal spots which are orange yellow in color. Prosternal process is short and squat. The area bound by prosternal carinae is parabolic.
  
  ## Biology
  
  It is a predator of several whiteflies, aphids and scale insects such as Aphis gossypii, and Planococcus citri.
  
  