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Family Chrysomelidae, Tribe Cassidini
Brilliant green tortoise beetle of the Chrysomelidae family. Related spotting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/156....
Spotted in the backyard where sweet potato plants are located. Spotted this near the leaf where there were another tortoise beetle species in coitus (http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/161...).
This species looks very similar to Gratiana pallidula (Boheman) - Eggplant Tortoise Beetle (http://bugguide.net/node/view/40560/bgpa...), and Gratiana graminea (Klug) - Leaf-Feeder Beetle (http://entomology.ifas.ufl.edu/medal/Tro...), and its relative - South American Leaf-Feeding Beetle Gratiana boliviana (Spaeth) (http://pesticide.ifas.ufl.edu/TropicalSo...). However, I could not find any recorded distribution of Gratiana spp. in the Philippines.
Spotted on Oct 30, 2012
Submitted on Oct 30, 2012
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