Spotless Lady Beetle
Cycloneda sanguinea
Spotless Lady Beetle
Cycloneda sanguinea
The Spotless Lady Beetle is a common and widespread Ladybug. They are also known as Lady beetles or ladybird beetles. As with most ladybugs, they consume large quantities of plant-eating insects such as aphids, mealybugs and other soft body insects. In doing so they help to protect crops, and are considered beneficial insects.
Identification: These are Large ladybird beetles with spotless orange to red elytra (wing covers). They have distinctive black and white marks on the head with two separated white ‘eye spots’ on the pronotum.
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Coccinellidae
Genus: Cycloneda
Binomial name: Cycloneda sanguinea
Cycloneda sanguinea
The Spotless Lady Beetle is a common and widespread Ladybug. They are also known as Lady beetles or ladybird beetles. As with most ladybugs, they consume large quantities of plant-eating insects such as aphids, mealybugs and other soft body insects. In doing so they help to protect crops, and are considered beneficial insects.
Identification: These are Large ladybird beetles with spotless orange to red elytra (wing covers). They have distinctive black and white marks on the head with two separated white ‘eye spots’ on the pronotum.
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Coccinellidae
Genus: Cycloneda
Binomial name: Cycloneda sanguinea
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