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Species Cycloneda sanguinea - Spotless Lady Beetle

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Coccinelloidea
No Taxon (Coccinellid group)
Family Coccinellidae (Lady Beetles)
Subfamily Coccinellinae
Genus Cycloneda (Spotless Lady Beetles)
Species sanguinea (Spotless Lady Beetle)
Other Common Names
Blood-Red Ladybird Beetle
Explanation of Names
Cycloneda sanguinea (Linnaeus 1763)
sanguinea 'blood-red'
Range
so. US (CA-FL-VA) [map](1) to Chile; Cuba, Bahamas(2)
Works Cited
1.The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America North of Mexico
Robert D. Gordon. 1985. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 93, No. 1.
2. A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida.
Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.
Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 4 December, 2004 - 8:22am
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, Tim Moyer, v belov, Abigail Parker
Last updated 16 January, 2021 - 6:07pm

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