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Beet tortoise beetle

Cassida nebulosa

Description:

thank you for help ID! it may be Beet tortoise beetle. 8mm. japanese name: カメノコハムシ.

Habitat:

mountain. food plant: Chenopodium album(シロザ).

Notes:

I found something very small on a leaf of weeds.

1 Species ID Suggestions

Tortoise beetle larva
Family Chrysomelidae, Subfamily Hispinae


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5 Comments

HarumKoh
HarumKoh 10 years ago

thank you for help ID! it may be Beet tortoise beetle. and I found nice thorned ladybug larva in my book. (Epilachna admirabilis) want to find someday. :D

FaredinAliyevski
FaredinAliyevski 10 years ago

@ Wilson, your suggestion is wrong. Harum has found something similar. Does crowned slug larva have a tail?

HarumKoh
HarumKoh 10 years ago

thank you Wilson W, FaredinAliyevski!
I think this one is likely. Cassida nebulosa(カメノコハムシ).
I used this japanese page. http://aoki2.si.gunma-u.ac.jp/youtyuu/in...

FaredinAliyevski
FaredinAliyevski 10 years ago

Looks really similar to my spotting, thistle tortoise beetle larva except yours doesn't have the feaces on the tail: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/309...

HarumKoh
Spotted by
HarumKoh

近畿 (Kinki Region), Japan

Spotted on Jul 27, 2013
Submitted on Jul 27, 2013

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