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Name: Golden Tortoise Beetle (Aspidimorpha sanctaecrucis); Range: Indomalayan
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Daily Bug & Insect Features (@wholelottabugs) posted on Instagram • Jan 20, 2021 at 3:47am UTC
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Entomology: the branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects. All insect and insect related posts are welcome!.
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Looks like (Ischnocodia annulus) but the pattern is slightly different. Amazingly iridescent. Lowland Amazonian rainforest, Manu national park, Peru. Thanks Rob Westerduijn for the ID.
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The Imperial tortoise beetle (Stolas imperialis) is a species of beetle found in Brazil
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This was my entry for the CG Sphere project.
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An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information.
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Tortoise beetles are any member of more than 3,000 beetle species that resemble a turtle because of the forward and sideways extensions of the body. Tortoise beetles range between 5 and 12 mm (less than 0.5 inch) in length, and the larvae are spiny. Both adults and larvae of some species are destructive to garden plants and sweet potatoes.
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Fam. Chrysomelidae Cassidinae Suriname
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Tortoise beetle (Eugenysa columbiana). Photo credit: @piotr_naskrecki
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Geiger Tree Tortoise Beetle
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My husband also had an encounter with this iridescent turtle beetle. And finally I have found its ID. It is the Geiger Tree tortoise beetle! As described in the reference, formerly Physonota calochroma floridensis. Size: 8-11 mm. Live adults are brilliant lime green with a black spot in the middle of the pronotum. In this book is mentioned that adults change colors, from wine-purple, green, to red-bronze or gold. In fact, these colours are constantly changing in the same specimen but when…
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Charidotella sexpunctata - Golden Tortoise Beetle | Beetle Archives
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watch my VIDEO: youtu.be/kB5y3wo3UkM from Ecuador
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The tortoise beetles are an artificial grouping of tribes within the leaf beetle subfamily Hispinae. In past classifications, they have been variously placed as a family ("Cassidae") or a subfamily (Cassidinae); when it was recognized that this group was not monophyletic, it was split and the resulting tribes were incorporated into the Hispinae. Some of the tribes that are considered "tortoise beetles" in the historic sense are the Cassidini, Dorynotini, Hemisphaerotini, Ischyrosonychini…
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