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Tortoise leaf beetle

Paropsisterna sp.

Description:

These small tortoise leaf beetles have dots on their shoulders They appear similar to P. decolorata http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/126... but are described also as P. m-fuscum http://www.flickr.com/photos/lifeunseen/...

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4 Comments

MartinL
MartinL 10 years ago

Thanks Leuba, mine are just a lot more blurry in this image. Actually Nick calls this one m-fuscum which confuses me because he uses the same name for another species in lifeunseen http://lifeunseen.com/index2_item_7229.p...

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 10 years ago

They look very much like the ones on Flickr - nice collection of leaf beetles, Martin.

MartinL
MartinL 10 years ago

Thanks Mark.
These are smaller than P. decolorata

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Gems.

MartinL
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MartinL

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Jan 11, 2014
Submitted on Jan 11, 2014

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