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#3492 · 🪲 beetles

Spotless Lady Beetle

Cycloneda sanguinea

🪲 Beetles 📍 outside Europe
Spotless Lady Beetle, photo 1 of 7
1/7 © James Bailey · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Cycloneda sanguinea is a widespread species of ladybird beetle in the Americas. This ladybug can be distinguished from others because of it's lack of spots on the elytra.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 35,248iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

  • No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
  • 35,248 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
Spotless Lady Beetle
scientific name
Cycloneda sanguinea
class
Insecta
order
Coleoptera
family
Coccinellidae
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
35,248
GBIF records in NL
2
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

relatives· Coccinellidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 124431, Wikidata Q2851700, GBIF 1043105, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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