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Leaf Beetle
Disonycha sp.
16.7273, -92.935
Field Notes
Description:
Small white Leaf Beetle with thin stripes and an orange thorax, 6 mm long.
Family Chrysomelidae, Subfamily Galerucinae.
Habitat:
Heavy shrubbery along the highway between San Cristobal de Las Casas and Tuxtla Gutierrez, km 11.5, 865 meters.
Notes:
Although found in the same place and superficially similar to spotting http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/37919008/fullscreen, this one is white with thin stripes and smaller, at only 6 mm. Both are probably species of Disonycha of the leaf skeletonizing leaf beetles.
Species ID Suggestions
1
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedAugust 28, 2013
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