#3214 · 🪲 beetles

Thistle Tortoise Beetle

🇳🇱 Groene distelschildpadtor ·Cassida rubiginosa

🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Pete McGregor · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © ___daniel___ · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Udo Schmidt · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © alphis · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Aliverable · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Noord Tilburg, Tilburg, Nederland:© Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Warmond, Nederland:© floris_heemskerk · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Leidschendam, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 9717 BE Groningen, Netherlands:© Mick Elliot · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Alterra, Wageningen, Netherlands:© marcel-silvius · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

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").

base stats

NL sightings 193iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,261iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).