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Aspidimorpha miliaris
The black dots and small patches on the elytra of this spotting have slight differences compared with the pattern in this related spotting - http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/171.... Aspidimorpha miliaris (Fabricius, 1775), called Spotted Tortoise Beetle, is a species of beetles belonging to the Chrysomelidae family, subfamily Cassidinae. The genus name is frequently misspelled as "Aspidomorpha", due to an unjustified spelling change in 1848.
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Reference: http://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/sweetp...
Spotted on Jan 10, 2013
Submitted on Feb 16, 2013
6 Comments
Thanks Carol, Yuko, Sergio :)
:-) Beautiful.
Tortoise beetles never fail to amaze me! Beautiful!
Thank you Alice, Rieko and Aaron for the kind comments and faves.
Very Nice!
Beautiful series.