Octuroplata octopustulata
| Octuroplata octopustulata | |
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| Adult photographed in Ibiúna, Brazil | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Tribe: | Chalepini |
| Genus: | Octuroplata |
| Species: | O. octopustulata
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| Binomial name | |
| Octuroplata octopustulata (Baly, 1864)
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Octuroplata octopustulata is a species of beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. Known from Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, it is a leaf miner that has been documented feeding on Senna australis, Eugenia ovalifolia, and Ouratea cuspidata.[1][2] It was initially described by Joseph Sugar Baly in 1864 as Uroplata octopustulata,[3] but would be transferred to the genus Octuroplata in 1937 by Erich Uhmann and combined as Octuroplata octopustulata.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Staines, C. L. (2012). "Tribe Chalepini" (PDF). Catalog of the Hispines of the World (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). USDA/APHIS/PPQ Science and Technology and National Natural History Museum. pp. 119–121. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 August 2025. Retrieved August 26, 2025.
- ^ Nogueira-de-Sá, Flávia; Medeiros, Lenice; de Macêdo, Margarete V. (2004). "Phenology of populations of tortoise beetles (Cassidinae) in Brazil". In Jolivet, Pierre; Santiago-Blay, Jorge; Schmitt, Michael (eds.). New Developments in the Biology of Chrysomelidae. The Hague, The Netherlands: Kugler Publications. p. 655. doi:10.1163/9789004475335_055. ISBN 9789004475335.
- ^ Baly, J. S. (1864). "Descriptions of genera and species of Hispidæ". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 3 (14): 341–342. ISSN 0374-5481. OCLC 1481361 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.