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1 Species ID Suggestions

Metallic blue tortoise beetle
Stolas festiva Metallic blue tortoise beetle | Project Noah


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5 Comments

JoseAvilaIII
JoseAvilaIII 9 years ago

There is definitely a difference in the spikes that differ it from Sergio's in my opinion.

bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago

Sergio's spotting is indeed very similar, but is it really the same one? Look at the spiky lateral part of the elytrae. I am not sure if it is a Stola sp.. To my knowledge Stolas has no such "spikes", but more rounded upper parts. My thoughts at the beginning were more towards Eugenysini and Agenysa and Eugenysa as possible genus, but I am not sure if I am really on the right track...
My closest guess until now would be Agenysa desmaresti:
http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/kat...
But I would not dare to make a suggestion based on my search yet.

RobThacker
RobThacker 9 years ago

Great spotting

Adarsha B S
Adarsha B S 9 years ago

Sergio has same spotting :)
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/172...
Please verify :)

stho002
stho002 9 years ago

Tortoise beetle (Cassidinae)

JoseAvilaIII
Spotted by
JoseAvilaIII

Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Spotted on Jul 15, 2014
Submitted on Jul 16, 2014

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