Octotoma

Octotoma
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]}

Species

These species belong to the genus Octotoma:

Species	Taxon name and author	Habitat	Notes	ITIS ID
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]

References

1. "Octotoma Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. "Octotoma". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. "Octotoma genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
4. Integrated Taxonomic Information System, Wikidata   Q82575
5. Staines, C.L. (2012). "Hispines of the World: Tribe Chalepini" (PDF). USDA/APHIS/PPQ Science and Technology and National Natural History Museum. Retrieved August 26, 2025.
6. "Octotoma scabripennis Guérin-Méneville, 1844". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
7. "Octotoma scabripennis (leaf beetle, lantana)". CABI - Invasive Species Compendium. Retrieved 28 July 2022.

Further reading

• Staines, C. L. Jr. (1989). "A Revision of the genus Octotoma (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Hispinae)". Insecta Mundi. 3 (1): 41–56. ISSN   0749-6737.
• Barney, R. J.; Clark, S. M.; Riley, E. G. (2007). "Annotated list of the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Kentucky: Subfamily Cassidinae". Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science. 68 (2): 132–144. doi:10.3101/1098-7096(2007)68[132:ALOTLB]2.0.CO;2. S2CID   198148537.
• Borowiec, Lech (1999). A world catalogue of the Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Biologicae Silesiae. ISBN   978-83-909804-4-7.
• Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Seeno, Terry N. (2003). Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Special Publication No. 1. The Coleopterists' Society. ISBN   978-0-9726087-1-8.
• Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6: Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books. ISBN   978-90-04-26091-7.