Platypria echidna

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Platypria echidna
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Suborder:
Polyphaga
Superfamily:
Chrysomeloidea
Family:
Chrysomelidae
Genus:
Platypria
Species:
P. echidna
Binomial name
Platypria echidna

Platypria (Platypria) echidna, is a species of leaf beetle found India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Vietnam. [1] [2]

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Description

Antenna thin, which is extending beyond scutellum over pronotum. There are six spines on each side of the anterior lateral lobe of the elytra. Elytra is covered with white pubescence. Elytral punctures are large and sub-quadrate. The anterior and posterior-lateral lobes on the elytra are reddish. [3]

Biology

Adult female lays a single egg covered with secretions that becomes an ootheca. Larva is a leaf miner that feed and live in mesophyll tissues. [4] It is found in wide varieties of host plants including: Mallotus , Desmodium gangeticum , Erythrina subumbrans , Erythrina lithosperma , Erythrina variegata , Pueraria tuberosa , Ziziphus mauritiana , Ziziphus nummularia , Ziziphus oenoplia , Ziziphus rugosa , and Ziziphus xylopyrus . [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "ON THE COLLECTION OF HISPINAE (COLEOPTERA : CHRYSOMELIDAE) PRESEERVED IN THE ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA, CALCUTTA". CiteSeerX   10.1.1.893.6766 .{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ↑ "Cassidinae collected during Czech-Polish Expedition to Maharashtra, India* (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Genus: Vol. 18(2): 279-295 , Wroclaw, 30 VI 2007. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  3. 1 2 Ranade, Sachin; Prathapan, Kaniyarikkal Divakaran; Ghate, Hemant V.; Chaboo, Caroline S. (2021-04-14). "Natural history of Platypria (Platypria) hystrix (Fabricius, 1798) on Fabaceae host plants, with notes on other Platypria species in India (Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae, Hispini)". ZooKeys (1031): 59–84. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1031.60129 . Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  4. ↑ "Leaf mining Coleoptera of the Indian subcontinent-Indian Journals". www.indianjournals.com. Retrieved 2021-09-21.


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