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Striking little Leaf Beetle with black elytra covered with large cream colored spots. The thorax is cream colored with some pink coloring. Large hind femora for jumping. About 5 mm long. Family Chrysomelidae. See this similarly marked beetle, although with different coloring http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/159....
Found on bushes along the highway between San Cristobal de Las Casas and Tuxtla Gutierrez, Km 18.5, 1164 meters.
Spotted on Jul 27, 2016
Submitted on Aug 1, 2016
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= Alagoasa jacobiana
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/792857-...