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stevetypesstuff.bsky.social
Who cannot but love #TortoiseBeetles? ❤️

Such little gems!

#entomology
#beetles
#Coleoptera

doi.org/10.1007/s137...
A figure from the paper showing a grid of eighteen colourful tortoise beetles. The title page of the paper “The Tortoise Beetles of an Atlantic Forest Mountain Range: Host Plants and Temporal Distribution”
October 1, 2026 at 5:06 PM
respublications.bsky.social
New #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt

Preference-performance relationship in the thistle tortoise beetle: Implications for its realised host range
doi.org/10.1111/een....

#Cassida #TortoiseBeetles
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September 21, 2026 at 8:01 AM
w0bblyb0n3s.bsky.social
From Saturday night, three Tortoise beetles and a leaf beetle, all munching their way through eucalyptus leaf. #macro #insects #tortoisebeetles #leafbeetles #australianinsects #MacroAddicts
A Tortoise beetle eating its way along a leaf. A Tortoise beetle with its speckled patterning. Sideview of a Tortoise beetle with its tiny but strong legs gripping the side of a leaf A Leaf beetle feeding on eucalyptus leaf.
November 24, 2024 at 8:29 PM
cschaboo.bsky.social
still editing bookshelf, but keeping sexy covers!
Macedo, Flinte, Abejanella & Chaboo. 2015. Three new reports of #subsocial #tortoisebeetles from South America (#Chrysomelidae: #Cassidinae). #leafbeetles #parentalcare
August 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
cschaboo.bsky.social
#tortoisebeetles are indeed handsome sexy beasties!
#Cassidinae #Chrysomelidae #leafbeetles
tshahan.bsky.social Thomas Shahan @tshahan.bsky.social · Feb 5
A collection of handsome tortoise beetles (Cassidinae) 🐢🪲

1 Ischnocodia annulus "Ringed Tortoise Beetle", Belize, 2015
2 Aspidimorpha sp golden tortoise beetle, Mozambique, 2018
3 unknown metallic green tortoise beetle, Colombia, 2023
4 Deloyala guttata "Mottled Tortoise Beetle", Oklahoma, 2020
February 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy
who is eating this leaf?

…oh!

The golden tortoise beetle (_Charidotella sexpunctata_).

#bugstodon #insects #beetles #tortoisebeetles #coleoptera #chrysomelidae #cassidinae #cassidini
A round vine leaf pocked with many little holes. On the underside, a round flat beetle whose carapace and elytra are gold in the centre and, remarkably, transparent as glass around the edges—a kind of tortoise beetle, family Chrysomelidae, subfamily Cassidinae, tribe Cassidini. Another angle of the beetle. It has faint green spots on its gold elytra. You can also see its small head through the transparent edge of its overhanging shell.
August 8, 2026 at 2:47 AM
coleopsoc.bsky.social
Fujiyama et al. Incomplete Behavioral Isolation among #TortoiseBeetles Species of the Genus Cassida Linnaeus (#Coleoptera: #Chrysomelidae: #Cassidinae) and Its Implications doi.org/10.1649/0010... #Beetles #LeafBeetles #Behaviour #TheColeopteristBulletin
April 1, 2024 at 4:33 PM
wa-puro.bsky.social
Mouse dourado sem fio com vida própria sobre o mouse pad verde esburacado?

Trata-se de um besouro-de-ouro do gênero Charidotella.

#bugs #tortoiseBeetles
Foto do verso de uma folha verde esburacada. No centro dela está um besouro dourado de bunda para a foto.
February 6, 2026 at 4:24 PM
wa-puro.bsky.social
Besouro-de-ouro do gênero Charidotella levando tapinha no popô

#bugs #tortoiseBeetles
December 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
bernardvanelegem.bsky.social
Tortoise beetles are just amazing, I looove them. Here is very similar one I photographed in Costa Rica, Ischnocodia Annulus (maybe the same species) at Sarapiqui in 2019. #beetles #leafbeetles. Seen from aside they look like they just escaped from a comic book or a cartoon. #tortoisebeetles
April 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM