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In northern India, the beetles hibernate over winter, emerging in March. After mating the female lays batches of about eight eggs in the soil. The eggs are orange and oval and hatch in one to two weeks. The grubs at first feed on leaf debris, roots and parts of the host plant in contact with the
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varies from pale orange-yellow to bright orange-red to medium brown, and the abdomen is black with soft white hairs. The grubs are found in the soil and are slender and creamy-yellow, with pale brown heads and prothorax.
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510:General and Applied Entomology
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776:Taxa named by Hippolyte Lucas
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245:. It is also a pest of
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192:Galleruca nigriventris
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354:extrafloral nectaries
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208:Aulacophora africana
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237:of members of the
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253:Description
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281:Life cycle
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322:melon
158:Lucas
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637:EPPO
624:BOLD
515:ISBN
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