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Thistle Tortoise Beetle

Cassida rubiginosa

Photo by injica
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Field Notes

Description:

It 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").

Habitat:

It is native to Eurasia.

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