Polished Lady Beetle

Cycloneda munda · Order: Coleoptera · Family: Coccinellidae

Also called: Polished Ladybird

No source yet on danger. We have no source yet on whether it bites, stings or damages anything.
Polished Lady Beetle
Photo: Katja Schulz, CC BY

Adults are small, measuring about 3.7 to 5.7 mm in length. They have a black pronotum with a pale spot on each side and reddish-yellow wing covers. The species occurs in eastern North America.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

The pronotum is black with a pale lateral spot. The elytra are reddish yellow.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

It is found in eastern North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 43 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Vermont, Texas, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in Canada; native in United States. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Polished Lady Beetle photo 3
Photo: Victor Engel, CC BY
Polished Lady Beetle photo 4
Photo: Sam Kieschnick, CC BY
Polished Lady Beetle photo 5
Photo: unknown, CC0
Polished Lady Beetle photo 6
Photo: botanygirl, CC BY

Same family (Coccinellidae)

Asian Lady BeetleAsian Lady BeetleHarmonia axyridisCan biteSeven-spotted Lady BeetleSeven-spotted Lady BeetleCoccinella septempunctataConvergent Lady BeetleConvergent Lady BeetleHippodamia convergensCan biteFourteen-spotted Lady BeetleFourteen-spotted Lady BeetlePropylea quatuordecimpunctataVariegated Lady BeetleVariegated Lady BeetleHippodamia variegataSpotless Lady BeetleSpotless Lady BeetleCycloneda sanguinea

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycloneda_munda

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-22 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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