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Aspidimorpha punctum
"A number of species come under the common name of tortoise beetles or tortoiseshell beetles. They are characterized by flattened, spiny larvae and adult beetles with broad domed oval shaped elytra." http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/sweetp...
Spotted on vegetation in a fallow garden in a semi-urban yard adjacent to a disturbed patch of remnant lowland forest.
Spotted on Oct 29, 2012
Submitted on Jan 23, 2013
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Yes thanks Agnes, I am researching this now for all of my spottings of this species, as PN user EmilieChich informed me of this likeness in spotting http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/178... a few days ago.
This closely resembles the Australian species Orange Tortoise Beetle, Aspidimorpha westwoodii. But there's no record of this species in Indonesia.