Hispine Leaf Beetle
16.73, -92.97
Field Notes
Description:
A completely orange Hispine with a brown stripe down the center of the thorax. About 5 mm long. Family Chrysomelidae. It seems the Hispines that were once of the Subfamily Hispinae are now considered part of the Subfamily Cassidinae (http://entomology.si.edu/Collections_Coleoptera-Hispines.html), along with the Tortoise Leaf Beetles.
Habitat:
Forest, Chorreadero Park, Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas, Mexico.
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