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)
Cassida rubiginosa
is also a member of:
Invertebrates
(via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Cassida rubiginosa Mueller, 1776 (Thistle Tortoise Beetle)

Sets of Photographs

These relate to individual finds ("biological records") of the organism.

Taxon Summary # images # photos # macrophotos Date Vice-county Country
Cassida rubiginosa 18 18 7 Jul 2004 North Hampshire England
Cassida rubiginosa Imago 4 4 3 Jul 2005 Brecon Wales
Cassida rubiginosa Larva 3 3 7 Jul 2004 North Hampshire England
Cassida rubiginosa? Imago 2 2 30 May 1998 Berks England
Cassida rubiginosa? Imago 2 2 14 Jun 1997 Berks England

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Cooter, J. & Barclay M.V.L. (eds), 2006 (Colour photograph of larva) A Coleopterist's handbook

Cassida rubiginosa may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 ANIMALIA
(animals)		 ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)		 INSECTA
(insects)		 COLEOPTERA
(beetles)		 CHRYSOMELOIDAE
(leaf, longhorn and seed beetles)		 CHRYSOMELIDAE
(leaf and flea beetles)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 5 feeding and other relationships of Cassida rubiginosa (Thistle Tortoise Beetle)

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