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Species Cassida flaveola - Pale Tortoise Beetle

Tortoise Beetle - Cassida flaveola Cassida flaveola tortoise beetle? - Cassida flaveola tortoise beetle? - Cassida flaveola
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 Cassida
No Taxon (subgenus Mionycha)
Species flaveola (Pale Tortoise Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Cassida flaveola Thunberg 1794
Size
4–6 mm(1)
Range
Native to Europe and probably native in NA but with more recent adventive populations, transcontinental in the north (YT‒NT south to MT‒MN‒WI‒OH‒MD)(1)
Food
hosts: various Caryophyllaceae(2)
Remarks
earliest North American records: WI 1896(1)
Works Cited
1.Synopsis of adventive species of Coleoptera (Insecta) recorded from Canada. Part 5: Chrysomeloidea...
Klimaszewski J, Hoebeke ER, Langor DW, Douglas HB, Borowiec L, Hammond HEJ, Davies A, Bourdon C, Savard K. 2020. Pensoft Series Faunistica No 119: 1‒175.
2.Borowiec L. (200_-2013) Chrysomelidae: The leaf beetles of Europe and the Mediterranean subregion (checklist and iconography)