Odontota

Odontota
Odontota dorsalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Tribe:	Chalepini
Genus:	Odontota Chevrolat in Dejean, 1836

Odontota is a genus of tortoise beetles and hispines in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about nine described species in Odontota. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Odontota scapularis

Species

These species belong to the genus Odontota:

• †Odontota americanaWickham, 1914 (type: Colorado, Florissant) ^[4]
• Odontota arizonica (Uhmann, 1938)
• Odontota dorsalis (Thunberg, 1805) (locust leaf miner)
• Odontota floridana Butte, 1968
• Odontota horni J. Smith, 1885 (soybean leafminer)
• Odontota mundula (Sanderson, 1951)
• Odontota notata (Olivier, 1808)
• Odontota scapularis (Olivier, 1808) (orange-shouldered leaf miner)
• Odontota signaticollis (Baly, 1886)

References

1. "Odontota Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. "Odontota". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
3. "Odontota genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
4. 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.

Further reading

• 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.

External links

• Media related to Odontota at Wikimedia Commons