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Anacua Tortoise Beetle - Coptocycla texana
Copyright © 2009 Mike Quinn

Anacua Tortoise Beetle - Coptocycla texana
Donna, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA
March 17, 1999
Larva carrying frass on the underside of an Anacua leaf (Ehretia anacua), family Boraginaceae. (Holes in leaf represent feeding damage.)

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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 1 March, 2009 - 1:49pm

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