Octotoma | |
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Octotoma plicatula | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Polyphaga |
Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
Family: | Chrysomelidae |
Subfamily: | Cassidinae |
Tribe: | Chalepini |
Genus: | Octotoma Dejean, 1836 |
Octotoma is a genus of tortoise beetles and hispines in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 12 described species in Octotoma. [1] [2] [3]
These species belong to the genus Octotoma:
Species | Taxon name and author | Habitat | Notes | ITIS ID |
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Octotoma brasiliensis ![]() | Octotoma brasiliensis [4] (Julius Weise 1921) | Brazil | 841433 [4] | |
Lantana leafminer ![]() | Octotoma championi (Joseph Sugar Baly 1886) | Texas, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama | Larvae have been recorded feeding on Lantana camara , Lantana hispida and Lantana trifolia , while adults feed on Mentha , Origanum and Sesamum species. [5] | 719970 [4] |
Octotoma crassicornis ![]() | Octotoma crassicornis [4] (Julius Weise 1910) | Brazil | 841434 [4] | |
Octotoma gundlachii ![]() | Octotoma gundlachii [4] (Christian Suffrian 1868) | Cuba | Introduced to Hawaii, but is not established there. They have been recorded feeding on Lantana species. [5] | 841437 [4] |
Octotoma intermedia ![]() | Octotoma intermedia [4] (Charles Staines 1989) | Tamaulipas | 841438 [4] | |
Octotoma marginicollis ![]() | Octotoma marginicollis [4] (Walther Horn 1883) | United States, Mexico | They have been recorded feeding on Perezia thurberi . Adults have been collected on Fraxinus species. [5] | 719971 [4] |
Octotoma nigra ![]() | Octotoma nigra [4] (Erich Uhmann 1940) | Bahia | 841435 [4] | |
Trumpet creeper leaf miner ![]() | Octotoma plicatula [4] (Johan Fabricius 1801) | United States | Have been recorded feeding on Campsis radicans . Adults have been collected on Aesculus and Lespedeza species, Fraxinus americana , Fraxinus pennsylvanica , Ligustrum vulgare and Chionanthus virginicus . [5] | 719972 [4] |
Octotoma puncticollis ![]() | Octotoma puncticollis [4] (Charles Staines 1994) | Guatemala | 844878 [4] | |
Lantana leaf beetle ![]() | Octotoma scabripennis [4] (Félix Guérin-Méneville 1844) | El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua | Introduced into Australia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Ghana, Guam, Hawaii, India, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands and South Africa [5] to kill the invasive Lantana camara plant. [6] [7] | 187785 [4] |
Octotoma variegata ![]() | Octotoma variegata [4] (Erich Uhmann 1954) | Bahia | 841436 [4] |