Coccinellidae tropical countries. The name "coccinellids" is derived from the Latin word "coccineus" meaning "scarlet". The name "ladybird" originated in Britain where the insects became known as "Our Lady's bird" or the Lady beetle. Mary (Our Lady) was often depicted wearing a red cloak in early paintings, and the spots of the seven-spot ladybird (the most common in Europe) were said to symbolise her seven joys and seven sorrows. In the United States, the name was adapted to "ladybug". Common names in some other European languages have the same association, for example, the German name "Marienkäfer" translates to Marybeetle. Coccinellids are
Arabella (given name) been suggested as the root of the name Arabella and its variants. However Orabilis may have been a purely speculative Latinized form rather than the name's true root, and usage of Arabella and its variants long being confined to Great Britain with no equivalent names in evident use elsewhere would argue for a British origin such as the Celtic "òr a bheul" "golden mouth", the Scottish equivalent of " Bel-óir" the Irish epithet for Saint Gregory the Great. Another theory suggests that the name Arabella - like the name Annabel - is a Scottish development of Amabel, whose ultimate root