Biology:Octotoma

Short description: Genus of beetles

Octotoma
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
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.

Species

These 12 species belong to the genus Octotoma:

• Octotoma brasiliensis Weise, 1921
• Octotoma championi Baly, 1886 (lantana leafminer)
• Octotoma crassicornis Weise, 1910
• Octotoma germari Hagenbach
• Octotoma gundlachii Suffrian, 1868
• Octotoma intermedia Staines, 1989
• Octotoma marginicollis Horn, 1883
• Octotoma nigra Uhmann, 1940
• Octotoma plicatula (Fabricius, 1801) (trumpet creeper leaf miner)
• Octotoma puncticollis Staines, 1994
• Octotoma scabripennis Guérin-Méneville, 1844
• Octotoma variegata Uhmann, 1954

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. http://journals.fcla.edu/mundi/article/view/24628. 
• 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:ALOTLB2.0.CO;2]. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/335735. 
• 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. 
• Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6: Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books. 2013. ISBN 978-90-04-26091-7. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2561352 entry