Taxonomy
- Polyphaga
- Chrysomeloidea
- Chrysomelidae
- Cassida
- Cassida nebulosa
Images
Source: Roger Key
Source: Roger Key
Description
Size: 5.5-7.7mm
Basic colour: Rusty-red, brownish or green
Pattern colour: Numerous small black spots, sometimes merging to form irregular longitudinal bands.
Number of spots: Numerous, variable.
Spot fusions: Very common
Pronotoum: As basic colour
Leg colour: As basic colour
Basic colour: Rusty-red, brownish or green
Pattern colour: Numerous small black spots, sometimes merging to form irregular longitudinal bands.
Number of spots: Numerous, variable.
Spot fusions: Very common
Pronotoum: As basic colour
Leg colour: As basic colour
Biology
Status: Threat status Indeterminate (RDB I); scattered, mainly in southern and eastern England.
Habitat: Various
Host plant: Various Chenopodiaceae including goosefoots, oraches and beet. Also on knotgrasses.
Overwintering: Unknown
Food: Leaves of host plants; adults eat holes in them, larvae feed on the underside.
Other notes: Underside black, abdomen with a yellow edge. The splayed elytral margins are wider towards the front.
Habitat: Various
Host plant: Various Chenopodiaceae including goosefoots, oraches and beet. Also on knotgrasses.
Overwintering: Unknown
Food: Leaves of host plants; adults eat holes in them, larvae feed on the underside.
Other notes: Underside black, abdomen with a yellow edge. The splayed elytral margins are wider towards the front.
Articles
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(1995), Cassida nebulosa L. (Chrysomelidae) reared from larvae The Coleopterist 3(3):68
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(1995), The distribution and ecology of Cassida nebulosa L. (Chrysomelidae) in Norfolk and Suffolk Breckland in 1994 The Coleopterist 3(3):70
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(1995), Cassida nebulosa L. (Chrysomelidae) in Somerset The Coleopterist 3(3):66
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(1995), Cassida nebulosa L. (Chrysomelidae) in South Somerset The Coleopterist 3(3):66
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(1995), Cassida nebulosa L. (Chrysomelidae) in Hampshire The Coleopterist 3(3):67
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(1995), Cassida nebulosa L. (Chrysomelidae) from two sites in East Anglia The Coleopterist 3(3):67