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Aspidimorpha cf. miliaris
About one centimeter in length; soft-looking white body with sharp black spines; two black "horns"
Taiwan; Taipei suburbs; subtropical; forest park
Found on a leaf, about one meter above forest floor; not moving at the time. I haven't yet found any images online of this particular species of slug moth caterpillar.
Welcome, Robert and a belayed welcome to Project Noah. I added a suggestion for your adult. It is indeed the same one as the larva and you may delete the "cf." in the scientific field. And note that it really is Aspidimorpha not Aspidomorpha which you would see in other sources.
However, it is not the Mottled Tortoise Beetle, just Tortoise Beetle or if you prefer: Miliaris Tortoise Beetle. Deloyola guttata looks different.
It would also be helpful and interesting if you could add a link to your adult/larva spotting and viceversa in the description, so people can see both, adult and larva.
Please, do not panic about the additional work you have to do, it is just a little cosmetics ;-)
Thank you bayucca, yes, I believe you are correct! In fact, I took this photo just minutes after I took the photo of the adult beetle (only a meter away from the larva). :)
Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae, looks like being Aspidimorpha cf. miliaris.
It is therefore a tortoise beetle larva, indeed some similarity with Limacodidae.
Here is the adult, you may look for them at the same spot you found the larva.
http://www.pbase.com/albert_noorlander/i...
Spotted on Dec 14, 2014
Submitted on Dec 16, 2014
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