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Green Tortoise Beetle

Cassida viridis

619Records since 2000
MayPeak month
52Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar6
Apr33
May181
Jun174
Jul81
Aug67
Sep23
Oct14
Nov1
Dec0

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Lincolnshire England36
2Cambridgeshire England27
3Worcestershire England26
4Dumfries and Galloway Scotland24
5Kent England19
6Surrey England19
7Norfolk England16
8North Yorkshire England16
9Essex England15
10Oxfordshire England13
11Devon England12
12Rutland England12
13East Ayrshire Scotland11
14Cumbria England10
15Brighton and Hove England10
553 England38 Scotland21 Wales4 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 52 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
619
Peak month
May
Counties with records
52
Scientific name
Cassida viridis
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
581
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Chrysomelidae
Genus
Cassida
Name with authority
Cassida viridis Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q941370 · GBIF 6097784