Foto do verso de uma folha verde esburacada. No centro dela está um besouro dourado de bunda para a foto.

Mouse dourado sem fio com vida própria sobre o mouse pad verde esburacado?

Trata-se de um besouro-de-ouro do gênero Charidotella.

#bugs #tortoiseBeetles

Besouro-de-ouro do gênero Charidotella levando tapinha no popô

#bugs #tortoiseBeetles

still editing bookshelf, but keeping sexy covers!
Macedo, Flinte, Abejanella & Chaboo. 2015. Three new reports of #subsocial #tortoisebeetles from South America (#Chrysomelidae: #Cassidinae). #leafbeetles #parentalcare

Tortoise beetles are just amazing, I looove them. Here is very similar one I photographed in Costa Rica, Ischnocodia Annulus (maybe the same species) at Sarapiqui in 2019. #beetles #leafbeetles. Seen from aside they look like they just escaped from a comic book or a cartoon. #tortoisebeetles

#tortoisebeetles are indeed handsome sexy beasties!
#Cassidinae #Chrysomelidae #leafbeetles

A Tortoise beetle eating its way along a leaf.

A Tortoise beetle with its speckled patterning.

Sideview of a Tortoise beetle with its tiny but strong legs gripping the side of a leaf

A Leaf beetle feeding on eucalyptus leaf.

From Saturday night, three Tortoise beetles and a leaf beetle, all munching their way through eucalyptus leaf. #macro #insects #tortoisebeetles #leafbeetles #australianinsects #MacroAddicts

Fujiyama et al. Incomplete Behavioral Isolation among #TortoiseBeetles Species of the Genus Cassida Linnaeus (#Coleoptera: #Chrysomelidae: #Cassidinae) and Its Implications doi.org/10.1649/0010... #Beetles #LeafBeetles #Behaviour #TheColeopteristBulletin