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Beet tortoise beetle

Cassida nebulosa

Photo by HarumKoh
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Field Notes

Description:

thank you for help ID! it may be Beet tortoise beetle.
8mm.
japanese name: カメノコハムシ.

Habitat:

mountain.
food plant: Chenopodium album(シロザ).

Notes:

I found something very small on a leaf of weeds.

Reference Links:

カメノコハムシ - Wikipedia

Species ID Suggestions

Tortoise beetle larva

Family Chrysomelidae, Subfamily Hispinae
Sergio Monteiro
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Comments (5)
Sergio Monteiro
I agree with Faredin: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/15524121
HarumKoh
thank you for help ID! it may be Beet tortoise beetle. and I found nice thorned ladybug larva in my book. (Epilachna admirabilis) want to find someday. :D
FaredinAliyevski
@ Wilson, your suggestion is wrong. Harum has found something similar. Does crowned slug larva have a tail?
HarumKoh
thank you Wilson W, FaredinAliyevski! I think this one is likely. Cassida nebulosa(カメノコハムシ). I used this japanese page. http://aoki2.si.gunma-u.ac.jp/youtyuu/index.html
FaredinAliyevski
Looks really similar to my spotting, thistle tortoise beetle larva except yours doesn't have the feaces on the tail: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/30948018

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PublishedJuly 27, 2013

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