BioImages (UK) BIOTA (living things) Eukaryota (eukaryotes) ANIMALIA (animals) EUMETAZOA (metazoans) BILATERIA (bilaterally symmetrical animals) PROTOSTOMIA (protostomes) ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders) ARTHROPODA (arthropods) HEXAPODA (hexapods) INSECTA (insects) PTERYGOTA (winged insects) Neoptera (an infraclass of insects) Endopterygota (insects with wings developing internally) COLEOPTERA (beetles) POLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles) Cucujiformia (a group of beetles) CHRYSOMELOIDAE (leaf, longhorn and seed beetles) CHRYSOMELIDAE (leaf and flea beetles) HISPINAE (tortoise beetles) Cassida (tortoise beetles) Cassida rubiginosa (Thistle Tortoise Beetle) Record Cassida rubiginosa is also a member of: Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK) Cassida rubiginosa Mueller, 1776 (Thistle Tortoise Beetle) Date: 7 July 2004 OS grid ref: SU65 Lat/Lon: 51° 20' N, 1° 0' W Location: Vice County: North Hampshire, VC12, England Voucher: 07/07/2004[H] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) Record Summary: Pale brownish larvae on Lesser Knapweed Associated organism: on live leaf of Centaurea nigra Identification Notes: While feeding the larvae retain a mass of excrement on the two posterior appendages. When full grown they shed this and remain stationary for about a week (eg caught 7th, pupa found on13th) before pupating. [This food plant is not mentioned in Bullock.] Images standard photographs and close-ups << Click on a thumbnail

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