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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines (Cassidinae) » Tortoise Beetles (Cassidini) » Cassida » Pale Tortoise Beetle (Cassida flaveola)

Species Cassida flaveola - Pale Tortoise Beetle

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Works Cited
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 (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
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
Species flaveola (Pale Tortoise Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Cassida flaveola Thunberg 1794
Range
Native to the entire Palaearctic Region(1) and probably native in NA(2)(3); transcontinental in Canada (NS-YT)(4), also in ne. US (to MD & WI)(5)
Food
hosts: various Caryophyllaceae(1)
Life Cycle
described in(3)
Works Cited
1.Borowiec L. (200_-2013) Chrysomelidae: The leaf beetles of Europe and the Mediterranean subregion (checklist and iconography)
2.Cassidinae of the world - an interactive manual (by Lech Borowiec and Jolanta Świętojańska)
3.Introduced leaf beetles of the Maritime Provinces 7: Cassida rubiginosa Müller and Cassida flaveola Thunberg...
C.G. Majka & L. Lesage. 2008. Zootaxa 1811: 37–56.
4.Bousquet Y., ed. (1991) Checklist of the beetles of Canada and Alaska
5.The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2.
Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.
Contributed by v belov on 24 May, 2009 - 11:34am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 26 April, 2012 - 3:12am

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