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An orange leaf beetle grub with stripes on it's body. Seems like those are tiny legs. About 7mm in length. Not moving when I found it. Those destroyed parts of the leaf is in fact eaten by the grub.
Tree leaves of Kinabalu National Park forest, Kundasang, Sabah, Malaysia.
I found this unusual "worm" laying still on it's side on a tree leaf in Kinabalu Park. At first, I thought it was a fly maggot, after some Internet search, it appears to be a larva of the Pyrrhalta beetles. >>>Map accuracy : 400m diameter.
Spotted on Dec 16, 2009
Submitted on Oct 24, 2011
4 Comments
It seems to be a Pyrrhalta beetle species.
I'm still not sure what species or family of beetle though.
I think it will matures into a beetle because I saw a similar beetle grub in an insect guide book.
This is a pretty animal! Do you have any idea what it turns into?