Pale Tortoise Beetle - Cassida flaveola
A pale-golden coloured Tortoise Beetle.
Areas of long grass, flowers and coarse vegetation.
Best months are May and June.
Associated with a range of plants including Creeping Thistle and Chickweeds.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Infrequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. There were a total of 10 VC55 records for this species up to March 2015.
David Gould
The Spearwort Fields, Aylestone
21 May 2010
Kate Nightingale
Cropston garden
04/05/2017
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Species profile
- Common names
- Pale Tortoise Beetle
- Species group:
- Beetles
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Coleoptera
- Family:
- Chrysomelidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 3
- First record:
- 21/05/2010 (Gould, David)
- Last record:
- 27/05/2024 (Timms, Sue)
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