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Leaf Beetle grub

Photo by ChunXingWong
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Field Notes

Description:

An orange leaf beetle grub with stripes on it's body.
Seems like those are tiny legs.
About 7mm in length.
Not moving when I found it.
Those destroyed parts of the leaf is in fact eaten by the grub.

Habitat:

Tree leaves of Kinabalu National Park forest, Kundasang, Sabah, Malaysia.

Notes:

I found this unusual "worm" laying still on it's side on a tree leaf in Kinabalu Park.
At first, I thought it was a fly maggot, after some Internet search, it appears to be a larva of the Pyrrhalta beetles.
>>>Map accuracy : 400m diameter.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (4)
ChunXingWong
I'm still not sure what species or family of beetle though.
ChunXingWong
I think it will matures into a beetle because I saw a similar beetle grub in an insect guide book.
AlexanderStein
This is a pretty animal! Do you have any idea what it turns into?

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PublishedOctober 24, 2011

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