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Dorynota pugionota
Parabéns de novo, Thalita, o SOTD foi muito merecido mesmo. Obrigado pelka informação.
Wow,amazing capture Thalita,congrats on the well deserved SOTD and thanks for sharing
Thanks everyone. I fixed the species, bayucca, thank you so much for all the help!!
Sergio, foi no Parque Tingui, na trilha coberta bem no começo do parque.
Congrats! Please, do not forget to complete the scientific name of Dorynota pugionota.
Congrats ThalitaMorais, this awesome beetle has been chosen as Spotting of the Day!
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Belíssima série sobre um dos meus insetos preferidos. Parabéns. Por favor, onde em Curitiba você o achou?
Ok, we got it. It is indeed Dorynota (Dorynota) pugionota, confirmed by Marianna Simoes from the University of Kansas who did an excellent review about the genus Dorynota. Many thanks, Marianna, for your assistance, which is much appreciated!
I try to get a confirmation of my closer ID of Dorynota pugionota from an expert. I just get a paper from her...
Thank you all, seriously. I'll come back to the place I found it to see if I get to take better pictures to ID the species. Thank you bayucca, you're really helpful in all my spotting!!
Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae, Dorynotini, Dorynota (Dorynota) sp., the second Dorynota is the subgenus, since there is another subgenus of Akantaka in genus Dorynota. Unfortunately I cannot really tell you which one it is. They look all "identical" and we would need a clear picture from the top to see other markings. There are several candidate like Dorynota monocerus, Dorynota gladiator (possibly a synonym of Dorynota monocerus??), Dorynota pugionota.
http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/kat...
http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/kat...
http://www.coleoptera-neotropical.org/pa...
http://www.coleoptera-neotropical.org/pa...
http://www.coleoptera-neotropical.org/pa...
Just brilliant ! Trust Martin to know his beetles.
I think yours is similar to no: 34 in this gallery
http://www.pybio.org/en/14488/galeria-de...
What an amazing beetle!
This is a tortoise leaf beetle.
They come in all shapes.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/155...
Spotted on Oct 4, 2015
Submitted on Oct 9, 2015
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