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Red Pumpkin Beetle

Aulakophora foveicollis

Photo by surekha
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Field Notes

Description:

Adult beetles feed extensively on the leaves, flowers and fruits.They bore into roots, stem and also fruits which lie on ground.

Notes:

Found this one on the Night flowering jasmine(Nyctanthes arbor-tristis) shrub in my yard.

Reference Links:

Biological activity of neem against the red pumpkin beetle,Aulacophora Foveicol…

Species ID Suggestions

Leaf beetle

Family Chrysomelidae
stho002
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Comments (1)
surekha
Thank you very much, stho002, for helping find the ID! Think it is a Red pumpkin beetle or cucumber beetle- PN spottings http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7846754 http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/11404732 ....only mine looks more like Aulakophora foveicollis.

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PublishedSeptember 19, 2013

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