Tortoise beetle

Description:

"The subfamily Cassidinae in old sense, commonly named “tortoise beetles”, is a part of the large family Chrysomelidae (leaf or plant beetles). They are almost world-wide in distribution, though they have a much greater diversity in the tropics, especially tropical South America. They are scarce in temperate regions of North America and Australia and abundand in temperate Euroasia. The last catalogue (Borowiec 1999) lists 2760 species (except the tribe Imatidiini classified traditionally within Cassidinae but recently transferred to the tribe Cephaloleini of the subfamily Hispinae)."