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Thistle Tortoise Beetle
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Thistle Tortoise Beetle

Cassida rubiginosa

The thistle tortoise beetle (Cassida rubiginosa) is a tortoise beetle, and as such belongs to the leaf beetles. It has a green carapace (despite "Rubiginosus" being Latin for "rusty or rust-coloured").

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 216166.