Tribe Cassidini - Tortoise Beetles

Classification · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited

Mottled Tortoise Beetle - Deloyala guttata

Microctenochira bonvouloiri (Boheman) - Microctenochira bonvouloiri

Cassidinae on bindweed. A day later - Charidotella sexpunctata

Golden Tortoise Beetle? - Charidotella sexpunctata

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)

Tribe Cassidini (Tortoise Beetles)

Numbers

~30 spp. in 15 genera in our area, >1,700 spp. in ~90 genera worldwide (of which 46 in the New World)(1)(2)

Range

worldwide(2)

Food

hosts: various dicotyledons(1)

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea By Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.)

2.	Cassidinae of the world - an interactive manual (by Lech Borowiec and Jolanta Świętojańska)

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 12 January, 2006 - 1:13am
Additional contributions by Tim Moyer, v belov
Last updated 26 April, 2012 - 5:44am

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