[Adastra] Mystery beetle

[SARAH PATTON]

Many thanks Peter - it was quite spectacular before the green colour faded. It would seem that it has spread inland as far as Fernhurst, unless of course it hitvhed a lift on my car!
   
  Sarah

Peter J Hodge <peter.j.hodge at tesco.net> wrote:
  Sarah,

Your beetle is Cassida vittasta which in Britain is mainly a coastal 
species.. The only similar species in this country, Cassida nobilis, has 
the hind angles of the pronotum more rounded.

Peter Hodge.

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Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 4:48 PM
Subject: [Adastra] Mystery beetle


> Anyone put a genus, let alone a species to this one?
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> Sarah
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