Beautiful tortoise beetles you might want to add.
Location: Malaysia
June 12, 2011 5:18 am
Found these in my backyard in Malaysia. You have a beautiful collection of tortoise beetles on your site and I thought perhaps you might like to add these.
Signature: AJ
Tortoise Beetle: Cassida circumdata
Dear AJ,
Thanks for sending in photos of these two pretty Tortoise Beetles. We will try to get species identifications when we have a free moment.
Tortoise Beetle: Chiridopsis scalaris
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Location: Malaysia
One of them is a Cassida circumdata.
Cassida circumdata: Pic 1.
Pic 2 is Chiridopsis scalaris.
cheers!
Thanks for the ID Boris.
Cassida circumdata: Pic 1.
Pic 2 is Chiridopsis scalaris.
cheers!
I have to weaken the ID of the first:
It may rather be Cassida catenata (Boheman, 1855) – a very similar species, widespread in the Malaian region. Though both are really variable in pattern, it remains a guess, which one it really is.
I have to weaken the ID of the first:
It may rather be Cassida catenata (Boheman, 1855) – a very similar species, widespread in the Malaian region. Though both are really variable in pattern, it remains a guess, which one it really is.
For comparison:
catenata, identified by the worlds best expert on Tortoise beetles:
http://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id5663/
(also, mind! with some hesitation)
and typical circumdata:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cchsieh/4915263835/
from outside the range of C. catenata (Taiwan).
For comparison:
catenata, identified by the worlds best expert on Tortoise beetles:
http://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id5663/
(also, mind! with some hesitation)
and typical circumdata:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cchsieh/4915263835/
from outside the range of C. catenata (Taiwan).