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Aspidomorpha miliaris
About 1 cm long.
All pictures were on the same plant (Ipomoea indica?). Page 2 and 3 where taken a day after the other 3 (page 1, 4, and 5) but are from the same plant.
Thank you Agnes. Nice link. And, right, pic#4 is an ootheca. I will try to get a better picture of the individual in pic#2. It could be a different species.
Hi John, pls check this site for the stages of the spotted tortoise beetle: http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/sweetp...
pic#4 - empty egg case (ootheca), see also this image of an ovipositing beetle - http://www.flickr.com/photos/gbohne/4998...
pic#5 - young larvae
pic#3 - pupa
pic#1 - adult
pic#2 is not included in the morphology of Aspidomorpha miliaris.
Hope this helps.
Well I don't know...Characteristic spots develop in the larval stage (#3) , then disappear in #2, then come back in #1? Somehow I'm skeptical :-)
Thank you Agnes for species suggestion. I am still thinking that photo #2 is another stage of the same species. The stage goes like #5-#3-#4-#2-#1. I could be wrong.
Hi John. Pls check my ID suggestion for your 2nd photo - Tortoise Beetle, Aspidimorpha furcata -http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/katalog%20internetowy/aspidimorphafurcatafig.htm
Hi S Frazier. Thank you for the comments. The individuals in photo number 2 seems to be coming from the same group as the other forms. And in some websites that I visited the two patterns occur. Photo number 4 is the "pupae" stage, I think.
Hello. Very nice to see all the different stages. High educational value! Rather than repeat the scientific name in the common name, please use the suggested common name: spotted tortoise beetle. It seems photo number 2 is a different species (lacks the spots seen in both adult and larva, photo 3) and should be made into its own separate spotting. What is depicted in photo number 4? Finally this spotting does not "show" brooding behavior as requested in the mission statement (individual adult parent[s] with eggs or nymphs) so it should be removed from that mission. Thanks!
Tortoise Beetle, Aspidimorpha furcata -http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/katalog%20internetowy/aspidimorphafurcatafig.htm.
Hi John. My ID suggestion is only for pictures #1, 3,4,5. Pic#2 is another Tortoise Beetle, Aspidimorpha furcata. Pls create a separate spotting for the 2nd beetle. Thanks!!
Spotted on Feb 2, 2013
Submitted on Feb 2, 2013
