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Stolas chalibea
Tortoise beetles can be VERY beautiful !!!
Another beauty Xará,very well deserved FOTD,congrats and thanks for sharing
Congratulations Sergio! This beautiful tortoise beetle has been chosen for Project Noah Fact of the Day: "Project Noah Fact of the Day: The Cassidinae (tortoise and leaf-mining beetles) are a subfamily of the leaf beetles, or Chrysomelidae. It includes both the former subfamily "Hispinae" (leaf-mining beetles), as well as the former more narrowly defined subfamily Cassidinae (familiar as tortoise beetles) which are now split into several tribes that include the tribe Cassidini, and in all include over 125 genera. ~Wikipedia
Tortoise beetle (Stolas chalibea) spotted in Curitiba, PR, Brazil by Sergio Monteiro"
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Added the link just to follow the discussions (if there are any anyway)...
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Hmm, Sergio, I think I have to challenge this ID... M. sublaevis should have the yellow patches ON the pronotum not behind:
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Pretty sure it is Mesomphalia sp., but in my modest eyes NOT M. sublaevis, even if the ID is coming from the experts like Lech...
What do you think?? I am confused...
Spotted on Dec 27, 2011
Submitted on Dec 27, 2011
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