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Field Notes

Habitat:

Warm grass land.

Notes:

Spotted these orange beetles in copulation during a rainy Sunday afternoon. The frustrated third one was hanging around for sometime and finally went down a bit and flew away!

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)
MartinL
THey are cylinder leaf beetles, Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae. Probably Aporocera.

Spotted for Missions

Mission
Arthropods of North East India
Mission
Beetles!
Mission
National Geographic's Great Nature Project

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PublishedAugust 27, 2014

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