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Subfamily: Cassidinae (tortoise beetles)
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> Insecta
(insects) > Dicondyla > Pterygota > Metapterygota > Neoptera > Eumetabola >
Holometabola > Coleoptera
(beetles)
> Polyphaga > Superfamily: Chrysomeloidea
> Family: Chrysomelidae
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Bassiptera stolida. Green Tortoise Beetle, 11mm.
[image by M. Picker & C.
Griffiths ©, from Field Guide to Insects of South Africa,
used with permission]. |
Conchyloctenia punctata (Spotted Tortoise Beetle), 11mm.
[image by M. Picker & C.
Griffiths ©, from Field Guide to Insects of South Africa,
used with permission]. |
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Aspidomorpha areata. Red Tortoise Beetle, 7mm.
[image by M. Picker & C.
Griffiths ©, from Field Guide to Insects of South Africa,
used with permission]. |
Aspidomorpha tecta (Fool's Gold beetle).
[image by A. Weaving ©, from Field Guide to Insects of South Africa,
used with permission]. |
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Aspidomorpha dilecta. Circular Tortoise Beetle, 7mm.
[image by M. Picker & C.
Griffiths ©, from Field Guide to Insects of South Africa,
used with permission]. |
Aspidomorpha puncticosta. Dune Tortoise Beetle, 13mm.
[image by M. Picker & C.
Griffiths ©, from Field Guide to Insects of South Africa,
used with permission]. |
Publications
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Borowiec, L., 1994 a. A monograph of the
Afrotropical Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Part I. Introduction,
morphology, key to the genera, and reviews of the tribes Epistictinini,
Basiprionotini and Aspidimorphini (except the genus Aspidimorpha). Genus
(suppl.), Biologica Silesiae, Wroclaw, 276 pp.
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Borowiec, L., 1997 b. A monograph of the
Afrotropical Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Part II. Revision of
the tribe Aspidimorphini 2, the genus Aspidimorpha Hope. Genus (suppl.),
Biologica Silesiae, Wroclaw, 595 pp.
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Borowiec, L., 1999 d. A world catalogue of
the Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Biologica Silesiae, Wroclaw,
476 pp.
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Heron, H., Borowiec L., 1997. Host plants and
feeding patterns of some South African tortoise beetles (Coleoptera:
Chrysomelidae: cassidoid Hispinae). Genus 8: 625-658.
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