Cassida murraea

Authority: 

Linnaeus, 1767

Common name: 

Fleabane Tortoise Beetle
Size: 6.5-9.0mm
Basic colour: Green or reddish-orange (green in less mature specimens)
Pattern colour: Small black spots, especially near the elytral suture.
Number of spots: Variable
Other colour forms: Sometimes
Pronotoum: As basic colour
Leg colour: Black - may be tinged with other colours.

Cassida hemisphaerica

Authority: 

Herbst, 1799
Size: 4.3-5.4mm
Basic colour: Green or yellowish-green, usually appearing a pale metallic golden green when alive.
Pattern colour: None
Number of spots: Sometimes one on the pronotum
Pronotoum: Sometimes with a central dark spot.
Leg colour: As basic colour

A small, convex, shiny tortoise beetle, almost completely circular looking from above.

Cassida flaveola

Size: 

4-6mm

Basic colour: 

Brownish-yellow to pale yellow with a faint metallic gold tinge when alive.

Pattern colour: 

Usually none (see below)

Leg colour: 

Variably darkened, but at least partly (and may be entirely) pale.

Cassida flaveola

Authority: 

Thunberg, 1794

Common name: 

Pale Tortoise Beetle
Size: 4-6mm
Basic colour: Brownish-yellow to pale yellow with a faint metallic gold tinge when alive.
Pattern colour: Usually none (see below)
Number of spots: Usually none (see below)
Other colour forms: Sometimes
Pronotoum: As basic colour
Leg colour: Variably darkened, but at least partly (and may be entirely) pale.

Cassida denticollis

Authority: 

Suffrian, 1844
Size: 5.1-7.0mm
Basic colour: Green
Pattern colour: Brownish-red around the scutellum. Central epimere black.
Number of spots: None
Other colour forms: Sometimes
Pronotoum: Green
Leg colour: Yellowish
Confusion species: Cassida prasina
, Confusion species: Cassida sanguinosa

Pilemostoma fastuosa

Authority: 

(Schaller, 1783)
Size: 4.5-6.5mm
Basic colour: Red and black
Pattern colour: Elytra red with irregular black stripes.
Number of spots: See notes below.
Spot fusions: Common
Other colour forms: Sometimes
Pronotoum: Red with black spots and upturned sides.
Leg colour: Black

An unmistakable black and red 'tortoise beetle'.

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