{{short description|Genus of beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Octotoma plicatula.jpg | image_caption = ''Octotoma plicatula'' | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Octotoma | authority = Dejean, 1836 }}
'''''Octotoma''''' is a genus of tortoise beetles and hispines in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 12 described species in ''Octotoma''.<ref name=itis/><ref name=gbif/><ref name=buglink/>
==Species== These species belong to the genus ''Octotoma'': {| class="wikitable" ! Species ! Taxon name and author ! Habitat ! Notes ! ITIS ID |- {{Wdtable row/species|qid=Q2157520}} {{Wdtable row/species|qid=Q2257464|notes=Larvae have been recorded feeding on ''Lantana camara'', ''Lantana hispida'' and ''Lantana trifolia'', while adults feed on ''Mentha'', ''Origanum'' and ''Sesamum'' species.<ref name="Staines">{{cite web |last= Staines|first= C.L.|date= 2012|title= Hispines of the World: Tribe Chalepini|url= https://naturalhistory.si.edu/sites/default/files/media/file/chalepini2015.pdf|website= |location= |publisher= USDA/APHIS/PPQ Science and Technology and National Natural History Museum.|access-date= August 26, 2025}}</ref>}} {{Wdtable row/species|qid=Q2579423}} {{Wdtable row/species|qid=Q1914045|notes=Introduced to Hawaii, but is not established there. They have been recorded feeding on ''Lantana'' species.<ref name="Staines"/>}} {{Wdtable row/species|qid=Q2135548}} {{Wdtable row/species|qid=Q2222739|notes=They have been recorded feeding on ''Perezia thurberi''. Adults have been collected on ''Fraxinus'' species.<ref name="Staines"/>}} {{Wdtable row/species|qid=Q3478852}} {{Wdtable row/species|qid=Q2942439|notes=Have been recorded feeding on ''Campsis radicans''. Adults have been collected on ''Aesculus'' and ''Lespedeza'' species, ''Fraxinus americana'', ''Fraxinus pennsylvanica'', ''Ligustrum vulgare'' and ''Chionanthus virginicus''.<ref name="Staines"/>}} {{Wdtable row/species|qid=Q2383141}} {{Wdtable row/species|qid=Q2176877|notes=Introduced into Australia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Ghana, Guam, Hawaii, India, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands and South Africa<ref name="Staines"/> to kill the invasive ''Lantana camara'' plant.<ref name=COL>{{cite web |url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/48KZH |title=''Octotoma scabripennis Guérin-Méneville, 1844'' |accessdate=28 July 2022 |author=|work= Catalogue of Life |publisher=}}</ref><ref name=AVH>{{cite web |url=https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/36993 |title=''Octotoma scabripennis (leaf beetle, lantana)'' |accessdate=28 July 2022 |author=|work= CABI - Invasive Species Compendium |publisher=}}</ref>}} {{Wdtable row/species|qid=Q1816832}} |}
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=itis> {{Cite web| title=''Octotoma'' Report | url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=187784 | website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System | access-date=2019-09-24 }}</ref>
<ref name=gbif> {{Cite web| title=''Octotoma'' | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/1049376 | website=GBIF | access-date=2019-09-24 }}</ref>
<ref name=buglink> {{Cite web| title=''Octotoma'' genus Information | url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/19489 | website=BugGuide.net | access-date=2019-09-24 }}</ref> }}
==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{Cite journal | title = A Revision of the genus Octotoma (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Hispinae) | date = 1989 | last1 = Staines | first1 = C. L. Jr. | journal = Insecta Mundi | volume = 3| issue = 1| pages = 41–56 | issn = 0749-6737 | url = http://journals.fcla.edu/mundi/article/view/24628 }} * {{Cite journal | title = Annotated list of the leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Kentucky: Subfamily Cassidinae | date = 2007 | last1 = Barney | first1 = R. J. | last2 = Clark | first2 = S. M. | last3 = Riley | first3 = E. G. | journal = Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science | volume = 68| issue = 2| pages = 132–144 | doi = 10.3101/1098-7096(2007)68[132:ALOTLB]2.0.CO;2 | s2cid = 198148537 | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/335735 }} * {{Cite book | title = A world catalogue of the Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) | date = 1999 | last1 = Borowiec | first1 = Lech | publisher = Biologicae Silesiae | isbn = 978-83-909804-4-7 }} * {{Cite book | title = Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae) | date = 2003 | last1 = Riley | first1 = Edward G. | last2 = Clark | first2 = Shawn M. | last3 = Seeno | first3 = Terry N. | publisher = The Coleopterists' Society | series = Special Publication No. 1 | isbn = 978-0-9726087-1-8 }} * {{Cite book | title = Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6: Chrysomeloidea | date = 2013 | editor-last1 = Lobl | editor-first1 = I. | editor-last2 = Smetana | editor-first2 = A. | publisher = Apollo Books | isbn = 978-90-04-26091-7 }} {{refend}}
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Category:Cassidinae Category:Octotoma Category:Articles created by Qbugbot Category:Chrysomelidae genera Category:Taxa named by Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean
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