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Tortoise beetle

Stolas sp.

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13 Comments

MayraSpringmann
MayraSpringmann 11 years ago

Wow!!! So fascinating!!

LeanneGardner
LeanneGardner 11 years ago

This is so beautiful :)

OnengDyah
OnengDyah 11 years ago

very pretty..and fabolous pic..

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 11 years ago

Sharp Beetle!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 11 years ago

Must be as per Genus indicated by bayucca.

http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/Bor...

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

Stolas sp.

Jellis
Jellis 11 years ago

and could be close to this
Cyrtonota sp.
Cassidinae

Jellis
Jellis 11 years ago

looks really close to this
http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=pdb&...

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 11 years ago

Juan is there any specific tribe within Cassidinae family for such bare head beetles...?

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 11 years ago

This one mimic a Lady Beetle.

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 11 years ago

Great find Juan....
Did you find inter specie breeding in such Tortoise shell beetles in South America... ?

Beautiful cache Juan,perfect spotting great photos,amazing biodiversity you have in your page,very good work,congrats and thanks for sharing :)

Juan DiTrani
Spotted by
Juan DiTrani

Panama

Spotted on Nov 13, 2012
Submitted on Nov 14, 2012

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