Octotoma
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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.[1][2][3]

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.

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