Deloyala guttata

Deloyala guttata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Genus:	Deloyala
Species:	D. guttata
Binomial name
Deloyala guttata (Olivier, 1790)

Deloyala guttata, the mottled tortoise beetle, is a species of tortoise beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. ^{[1] [2]} It is found in the Caribbean, Central America, North America, and South America. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Mottled Tortoise Beetle, Deloyala guttata, Pryor, OK, USA

Larva carry shields made from exuviae and frass on their abdomen that they lift to shield their dorsum from predators. ^[6]

References

1. "Deloyala guttata Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
2. "Deloyala guttata Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
3. "North American Cryptocephalus species (Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae)". Texas Entomology. Mike Quinn. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
4. "Staines C.L. (2011). "Catalog of the hispines of the World"". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
5. "Images and collection data for Deloyala guttata". Pictures from Earth. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
6. Olmstead, Karen L.; Denno, Robert F. (1993). "Effectiveness of Tortoise Beetle Larval Shields Against Different Predator Species" . Ecology. 74 (5): 1394–1405. Bibcode:1993Ecol...74.1394O. doi:10.2307/1940069. ISSN   0012-9658. JSTOR   1940069 . Retrieved 13 May 2022.

Further reading

• Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN   978-0-8493-0954-0.
• Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
• Borowiec, Lech (1999). A world catalogue of the Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), 476.
• Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
• Riley, Edward G., Shawn M. Clark, and Terry N. Seeno (2003). "Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae)". Coleopterists Society Special Publication no. 1, 290.
• White, Richard E. (1968). A Review of the Genus Cryptocephalus in America North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Press.