Octotoma

Octotoma is a genus of tortoise beetles and hispines in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 12 described species in Octotoma.[1][2][3]

Octotoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Tribe: Chalepini
Genus: Octotoma
Dejean, 1836

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

References
  1. "Octotoma Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
  2. "Octotoma". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

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.
  • 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.


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