Blue-and-white gall beetle - Blue-and-white gall beetle

Japanese: アオウバタマムシ - あおうばたまむし
Blue-and-white gall beetle - Blue-and-white gall beetle

...This species is commonly called the female jewel beetle, but it is a completely different species. It is distributed south from Honshu, but those that live in the Amami Islands and Okinawa are greenish and have dense dots between the raised stripes, so they are called blue jewel beetles and are treated as a subspecies of this species. In addition, a similar species, C. yunnana , is known to be found in the Kii Peninsula, Shikoku, and Kyushu of Honshu, as well as the Yaeyama Islands. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "blue butterfly beetle" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…本種は俗にタマムシの雌といわれるが,まったくの別種である。本州から南に分布するが,奄美諸島や沖縄に生息するものは緑色を帯び,隆起条の間の点刻が密であることからアオウバタマムシと呼ばれ,本種の亜種として扱われている。また本州の紀伊半島,四国,九州から八重山諸島にかけて,本種に類似するサツマウバタマムシC.yunnanaが知られている。…

※「アオウバタマムシ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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