Tribe Cassidini - Tortoise Beetles

Classification · Internet References

Golden Tortoise Beetle - Charidotella sexpunctata - male - female

Beetle - Plagiometriona clavata - female

Mottled Tortoise Beetle - Deloyala guttata

Which tortoise beetle, please? - Agroiconota bivittata

From Gold to Red - 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)

Internet References

Cassidinae of the world - Tribe: Cassidini - New World Genera, Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wroclaw, Przybyszewskiego 63/77, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland - Lots of photos of species and different species variants, although unlike much of BugGuide, most are preserved specimens. And this tribe tends to significantly fade.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 12 January, 2006 - 1:13am
Additional contributions by Tim Moyer
Last updated 12 March, 2008 - 8:27pm

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