Blue Milkweed Leaf Beetle

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Body is beautiful oval dark blue metallic colour with clubbed antennae. It is found in the month of July.
Host plant - Calotropis 

Class - Insecta 
Order - Coleoptera 
Family - Chrysomelidae 
Genus - Chrysochus 
Species - C. cobaltinus  LeConte 

India - Gondia Maharashtra 

By Dr. Sanjay Gajbhiye 

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