Dicladispa occator - Larva and leaf mine

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Ferdy Christant

Lion

Wow, I've never seen the actual process of leaf mining, only the result of it. Super cool! Posted 5 years ago
1. Pudding4brains
  
  Lion
  
  Hi Ferdy, I had this larva in a jar with some leafs and couldn't find it back - turns out that it had created this new little mine overnight. The image below shows more of the mines (empty ones, with lots of small Miridae on it):
  
  Posted 5 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    Next level cool! Posted 5 years ago

The Dicladispa occator

Dicladispa occator is a species of Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae) in the subfamily Cassidinae, tribe Hispini (formerly a subfamily in its own right, Hispinae) with monophagous development on Cistaceae, where the larvae create irregular upper surface blotch like leaf mines.

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Similar species: Beetles

Species identified by Pudding4brains