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Thistle Tortoise Beetle

Cassida rubiginosa

2,654Records since 2000
MayPeak month
109Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan4
Feb4
Mar51
Apr338
May794
Jun519
Jul393
Aug246
Sep120
Oct19
Nov1
Dec4

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England135
2Lincolnshire England131
3Norfolk England89
4Cambridgeshire England84
5North Yorkshire England81
6East Riding of Yorkshire England78
7Oxfordshire England60
8Kent England56
9Nottinghamshire England49
10Cumbria England48
11Rutland England47
12York England45
13Essex England43
14Surrey England37
15Stockport England35
2,348 England126 Scotland132 Wales33 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 109 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,654
Peak month
May
Counties with records
109
Scientific name
Cassida rubiginosa
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,364
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Chrysomelidae
Genus
Cassida
Name with authority
Cassida rubiginosa Müller, 1776
Described
1776
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q136153 · GBIF 4990526