Cyclocephala lunulata

Cyclocephala lunulata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Cyclocephala
Species:
C. lunulata
Binomial name
Cyclocephala lunulata
Synonyms[1]
  • Cyclocephala nubeculosa Burmeister, 1847
  • Ochrosidia oblita Casey, 1915

Cyclocephala lunulata is a species of beetle in the family Scarabaeidae.[1][2][3]

Distribution

It has a wide range, from the southern United States (Arizona, Texas), through Central America, where it has been recorded from Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico (Aguascalientes, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Coahuila, Colima, Distrito Federal, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatán, Zacatecas), Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, to South America, with records from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, São Paulo), Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Cyclocephala lunulata Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  2. ↑ "Cyclocephala lunulata". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  3. ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Cyclocephala lunulata at Catalogue of Life". World Scarabaeidae Database (version 2025-10-07). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, J. Miller, T. Orrell, & R. Aalbu, Catalogue of Life (2026-01-16). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Catalogue of Life Foundation. Retrieved August 28, 2026.

Further reading

  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2006). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-30914-2.