Forum Entomologi Italiani

SPECTACULAR Cassida!
nelle Galium mollugo.
Aiuto ID!
Grazie!

It is probably Cassida corallina, but I never seen life specimens. Dried specimens look different:
http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/Eu ... allina.htm

Yes is a shame that all Cassida looses the colours once died. I can't find absolutely none image of C. corallina alive, what made you suppose this species?
(P.D. according to your link C. corallina feeds on Artemisia. This one was on Galium and I saw none species of Artemisia in all the zone. Artemisia is a member of Asteraceae family (as most of the Cassida's host plants), while Galium not).

None of European species feed on Gallium (Rubiaceae family) thus its occurrence on this plant was accidental.