Summary ²

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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1. (c) Pete McGregor, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Pete McGregor
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassida_rubiginosa

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