Cassida murraea Linnaeus, 1767
(Fleabane Tortoise Beetle)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Cassida murraea (Fleabane Tortoise Beetle)
Genus	Cassida (tortoise beetles)
Subfamily	HISPINAE (tortoise beetles)
Family	CHRYSOMELIDAE (leaf and flea beetles)
Superfamily	CHRYSOMELOIDEA (leaf, longhorn and seed beetles)
Series	Cucujiformia (a group of beetles)
Suborder	POLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
Order	COLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Cassida murraea is also a member of:
water beetles - water beetles (via Chrysomelidae)
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Records of Cassida murraea (Fleabane Tortoise Beetle) :
1: Cassida murraea (Fleabane Tortoise Beetle)
8 Jul 2011	OSGR: SS58	51° 30’ N, 4° 10’ W	Vice County: Glam (VC 41)	Wales
immature green form on Common Fleabane

2: Cassida murraea (Fleabane Tortoise Beetle)
21 Jul 2002	OSGR: ST25	51° 20’ N, 3° 0’ W	Vice County: North Somerset (VC 6)	England
immature (green) and mature (red) adults and larvae on Common Fleabane

3: Cassida murraea (Fleabane Tortoise Beetle)
26 Jun 2002	OSGR: SY59	50° 50’ N, 2° 40’ W	Vice County: Dorset (VC 9)	England
mature adult (red form) and feeding traces on Common Fleabane

4: Cassida murraea (Fleabane Tortoise Beetle)
16 Aug 1997	OSGR: SS78	51° 30’ N, 3° 40’ W	Vice County: Glam (VC 41)	Wales
Immature green form, on Lesser Fleabane

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Cooter, J. & Barclay M.V.L. (eds)	2006	A Coleopterist’s handbook	The Amateur Entomolgist, 11, Fourth Edition edition, 439pp, Amateur Entomologists’ Society
	Cox, M.L.	2007	Atlas of the Seed and Leaf Beetles of Britain and Ireland	336pp, Pisces Publications

Cassida murraea (Fleabane Tortoise Beetle) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

CHRYSOMELIDAE
(leaf and flea beetles)

COLEOPTERA
(beetles)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

water beetles
(water beetles)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Cassida murraea (Fleabane Tortoise Beetle)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 2 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Cassida murraea (Fleabane Tortoise Beetle)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Cassida murraea is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)