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Species Helocassis clavata - Clavate Tortoise 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 Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)
Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)
Subfamily Cassidinae (Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines)
Tribe Cassidini (Tortoise Beetles)
Genus Helocassis
Species clavata (Clavate Tortoise Beetle)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Plagiometriona clavata (Fabricius)
Explanation of Names
Helocassis clavata (Fabricius 1798)
clavata 'clubbed'
Numbers
2 sspp.(1)(2)
Size
5‒7 mm; female larger than male
Identification
adult: dorsum with large dark patch shaped like a teddy bear, with "legs" of the "bear" reaching elytral margins and the "head" extending onto the pronotum
Range
e.NA to AZ to S.America(2)(1)(map)
Food
ground-cherries (Physalis), Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium), and Solanum spp. (Solanaceae)(3)
Life Cycle
Egg Larva Adult
See Also
Parorectis callosa se US
Works Cited
1.New records, nomenclatural changes, and taxonomic notes for select North American leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
Riley, E.G., S.M. Clark, and A.J. Gilbert. 2001. Insecta Mundi 176: 1-17.
2.Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.
3.Host plants of leaf beetle species occurring in the United States and Canada
Clark et al. 2004. Coleopterists Society, Special Publication no. 2, 476 pp.