Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cycloneda sanguinea
mariquita sin mancha, Spotless ladybug
Predator; littoral to pampa zones; January–September, December; sweeping, beating, malaise, FIT, pan traps, at lights.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Suborder
Polyphaga
Superfamily
Cucujoidea
Family
Coccinellidae
Section
Coccinellini
Genus
Cycloneda
Species
sanguinea
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Española, Fernandina, Floreana, Genovesa, Isabela, Marchena, Pinta, Pinzón, Rábida, Santa Cruz, San Cristóbal, Santiago, Wolf
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- Van Dyke, E.C. (1953) The Coleoptera of the Galapagos Islands. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 22: 1-181.
- Mutchler, A.J. (1938) Coleoptera from the Galapagos Islands. American Museum Novitates 981: 1-19.
- Peck, S.B. Kukalová-Peck, J. (1990) Origin and biogeography of the beetles (Coleoptera) of the Galápagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Can. J. Zool. 68(8): 1617-1638.
- Parkin, P. Parkin D.T., Ewing, A.W. & Ford, H.A. (1972) A report on the arthropods collected by the Edinburgh University Galapagos Islands Expedition, 1968. The Pan-pacific Entomologist 48: 100-107.
- Peñaherrera-Romero, E. Guerrero-Campoverde, A., Rueda-Rodríguez, M.P., Dávila-Játiva, M., Die-Morejón, D., Domínguez-Trujillo, M., Guerrero-Molina, T.,Vélez-Darquea, E., Cisneros-Heredia, D.F (2024) Ladybird Beetle Diversity in Natural and Human-Modified Habitats in the San Cristóbal Island, Galapagos, Ecuador. Insects, 15, 725. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15090725
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"Galapagos Species Database, Cycloneda sanguinea", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=5764. Accessed 23 February 2025.