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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines (Cassidinae) » Tortoise Beetles (Cassidini) » Floridocassis » Floridocassis repudiata
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Tortoise beetle - Floridocassis repudiata
Copyright © 2019 Joseph Montes de Oca

Tortoise beetle - Floridocassis repudiata
Big Cypress, Monroe County, Florida, USA
July 3, 2019
Pineland habitat in Big Cypress.
Seen shortly after storm passed over.
More images:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/28181488
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Contributed by Joseph Montes de Oca on 5 July, 2019 - 1:35pm
Last updated 18 August, 2020 - 8:46am

Thanks!
Thank you for the ID help as usual!
… Joseph Montes de Oca, 19 August, 2020 - 1:02pm login or register to post comments

 
thank you for the fantastic contribution
figuring it out was fun
… v belov, 19 August, 2020 - 1:30pm login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively; nice one in any event
Moved from Tortoise Beetles.
… v belov, 18 August, 2020 - 8:46am login or register to post comments

 
Ed Riley agrees; his comment:
"Give the man a gold star! Can see falcate pronotal angle and almost see puncation on elytral margin. Good bug, it likes coastal swamps where its host Ipomoea sagittata grows..."
… v belov, 18 August, 2020 - 9:18am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines.
… v belov, 17 August, 2020 - 12:25pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Tyler Hedlund, 6 July, 2019 - 8:47am login or register to post comments

 
argus tortoise beetle
argus tortoise beetle
… Janabuggs, 22 August, 2019 - 9:56am login or register to post comments

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