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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Long-horned and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines (Cassidinae)

Subfamily Cassidinae - Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Geiger tortoise beetle - Physonota calochroma Mottled Tortoise Beetle, a gold and black beetle with clear margins - Deloyala guttata Leaf Beetle with racing stripes - Microrhopala xerene blue-reflexed hispinid under flourescent light - Microrhopala excavata Which beetle, please? - Microrhopala excavata Clavate Tortoise Beetle - Plagiometriona clavata Helocassis clavata? - Deloyala guttata Leafminers - Octotoma marginicollis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Long-horned and Leaf Beetles)
Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)
Subfamily Cassidinae (Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
The Hispinae are now part of the Cassidinae (Staines 2002) (1), (2)
Numbers
about 2,760 species worldwide
greatest diversity in tropical South America; relatively scarce in temperate North America
Remarks
Classification in BugGuide follows:

Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico. Coleopterists Society, Sacramento. 290 pp. (1)
Print References
Staines, C.L. 2002. The New World tribes and genera of hispines (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 104(3): 721-784.
Abstract.
Staines, C.L. (2006): The Hispine beetles of America north of Mexico (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Virginia Mus.Nat.Hist. special publication 13, 178p. (A current treatment, containing keys and available biological information)
Internet References
Home page Cassidinae of the world - an interactive manual (Borowiec & Świętojańska)
Or go directly to photos on same site.
Works Cited
1.Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico
By Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno
2.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
By Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.)
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, McClarinJ, Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche
Last updated 12 June, 2007 - 9:02am

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