cassidine means any beetle of the Cassidinae, also called tortoise beetles and leaf-mining beetles. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.
Etymology
Clipping of taxonomic name Cassidinae.
noun
- Any beetle of the Cassidinae, also called tortoise beetles and leaf-mining beetles.“Novel host records and feeding behaviors are reported for five species in three genera of two cassidine beetle tribes, Hemisphaerotini and Imatidiini, from Ecuador.”