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Monocesta ducalis
Metallic blue and yellow Leaf Beetle, 1.5 cm long. Family Chrysomelidae. For pictures of the larvae see: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/167....
Abandoned field, semi-urban area, outskirts of San Cristobal de Las Casas, 2,200 meters. They only feed (as both larvae and adults) on leaves of the native Manzanita Tree, Crataegus mexicana. (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crataegus_...)
http://www.naturalista.mx/observations/3... http://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/272293-M... http://bios.conabio.gob.mx/especies/1005... https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocesta
lovely! I love leaf beetles.I was lucky to witness the life cycle of our local species of leaf beetles.
Spotted on Jun 13, 2013
Submitted on Jun 19, 2013
