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Disonycha fumata
Yellow Leaf Beetle with black stripes and with the head, thorax and legs all red. The hind legs are greatly enlarged for jumping. Family Chrysomelidae, Subfamily Galerucinae.
Heavy shrubbery along the highway between San Cristobal de Las Casas and Tuxtla Gutierrez, km 11.5, 865 meters.
= Kuschelina tenuilineata
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/746640-...
more rounded shape than similar Disonycha spp.
Thank you Miguel! I think you are right about this one. They are almost identical and I see from other sites that the white stripe can be present or absent (absent in this one). We also often have many species in common between Florida and Chiapas.
Spotted on Aug 12, 2013
Submitted on Aug 27, 2013
