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Tortoise Leaf Beetle

Chrysomelidae (subfamily Cassidinae)

Photo by Eva Varga
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Field Notes

Notes:

Cloud Forest, Yanayacu Biological Station, Napo, Ecuador

Species ID Suggestions

tortoise beetle

Cyrtonota marginalis
JimMcClarin
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Comments (7)
JimMcClarin
This is Cyrtonota marginalis. I have collected a series of them from the same locale as well as reared them in captivity. Species identified for me by leaf beetle specialist Rob Westerduijn.
MartinL
What a neat beetle!! Chrysomelidae is the family level including all leaf beetles and Cassidinae is the subfamily group including some of the largest tortoise leaf beetles with showy elytra. Both names are correct.
Eva Varga
That's awesome! That picture was taken at Yanayacu ... exactly where I had taken this one. :)
auntnance123
This is very similar (if not the same): http://www.biodiversityphotography.org/For-Identification/Invertebrates-Insects/Coleoptera-Ecuador/4735322_8oHgM/1/280477286_DLks4#280477286_DLks4 Hope it helps.
auntnance123
Lovely bug. It certainly looks like a tortoise beetle--might be a good starting point.

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