cassidine

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Clipping of translingual Cassidinae

Noun[edit]

cassidine (plural cassidines)

  1. 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.
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