Palmetto Tortoise Beetle, Florida Tortoise Beetle (unofficial common names), Hemisphaerota cyanea (Say), (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)
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Palmetto Tortoise Beetle, Florida Tortoise Beetle (unofficial common names), Hemisphaerota cyanea (Say), (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae): EENY232/IN388, 8/2001

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Donald W. Hall
University of Florida
Jerry F. Butler
University of Florida
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Hall, Donald W., and Jerry F. Butler. 2002. “Palmetto Tortoise Beetle, Florida Tortoise Beetle (unofficial Common names), Hemisphaerota Cyanea (Say), (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae): EENY232/IN388, 8/2001”. EDIS 2002 (9). Gainesville, FL. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-in388-2001.
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The Florida tortoise beetle is recorded from Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Texas, and also probably occurs in Louisiana and Mississippi in areas where palms grow. This document is EENY-232, one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Published: August 2001. 

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Eisner, T. and M. Eisner. 2000. Defensive use of a fecal thatch by a beetle larva (Hemisphaerota cyanea) Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 97:2632-2636. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.050002197

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