Steganocerus multipunctatus Thunberg 1783, or ladybird bug, is a Sub-Saharan African member of the Hemiptera with a strong resemblance to a Ladybird. It is normally black with bright orange spots, but is quite variable in colour and may be brown without spots. It shares Müllerian mimicry with the Tortoise beetle Chiridopsis suffriani, and a spider Paraplectana thorntoni.
S. multipunctatus is one of the Rhynchota whose presence has been recorded on a wide range of indigenous plants and cultivated crops such as cotton.
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"Revision of the Rhynchota belonging to the family Pentatomidae in the Hope collection at Oxford" - W. L. Distant "Ad cognitionem Heteropterorum Africae occidentalis" - Odo Morannal Reuter "Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver alla hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden" - Carl Stål