Figure 1. Ipomoea leaves with feeding damage by adults of the tortoise beetle Aspidomorpha.

a - Damage by A. sanctae-crucis; b - Damage by A. miliaris.

(Based on photographs in Verma & Shrivastava 1985)

Figure 2. Last instar larvae of the tortoise beetle Aspidomorpha miliaris.

a - The larvae at rest in a cycloalexic arrangement. Exuviae carrying caudal ends of the larvae form the periphery of this ovoid grouping; b - The larvae in a feeding position in a tight row at a margin of an Ipomaoea leaf. (Fg. 2 (b) is based on a figure in Verma 1992.)