cassidine
English
editEtymology
editClipping of translingual Cassidinae
Noun
editcassidine (plural cassidines)
- Any beetle of the Cassidinae, also called tortoise beetles and leaf-mining beetles.
- 2009 September 25, Wills Flowers, Caroline S. Chaboo, 0095. Novel host records of some cassidine leaf beetles from Ecuador (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)[1]:
- Novel host records and feeding behaviors are reported for five species in three genera of two cassidine beetle tribes, Hemisphaerotini and Imatidiini, from Ecuador.