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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Criocerinae » Lemini » Lema » unidentified Lema eggs and larvae (Lema unidentified Lema eggs and larvae)
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larvae - Lema
Copyright © 2006 Michael Pettigrew

larvae - Lema
Saint-Bruno, Montreal County, Quebec, Canada
August 15, 2005
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Contributed by Michael Pettigrew on 22 August, 2006 - 4:51pm
Last updated 11 October, 2010 - 10:53am

Moved
Moved from Lema.
… Blaine Mathison, 11 October, 2010 - 10:53am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Leaf Beetles.
… john and jane balaban, 27 November, 2007 - 6:45pm login or register to post comments

Lema
larva from the subfamily Criocerinae cover themselve with excrements like you see on the photo. Compare with the larva of Lema daturaphila here
… Rob Westerduijn, 27 November, 2007 - 11:00am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Boris Büche, 30 March, 2007 - 5:40am login or register to post comments

Leaf beetle larvae.
Almost positive these are leaf beetle larvae (family Chrysomelidae), but have no ideas beyond that.
… Eric R. Eaton, 22 August, 2006 - 7:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Are they some kind
of tortoise beetle, covering themselves in frass?
… john and jane balaban, 22 August, 2006 - 8:00pm login or register to post comments

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