Shiny Black Ladybird

Beautiful black shiny animal. It has an orange underside and face. The animal has an injury probably from an assassin bug. It was very active though. I am not sure if it was hunting for the many aphids around, some occasionally climbing on top of it. It was found on our artichoke plant. It was flighted unfortunately. An identification proved quite difficult. I think this is not a very well publicly documented species. The tentative taxon, Chilocorus nigritus has not been checked properly. There are certainly many confusions and mistakes around it.