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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Leaf Beetles (Chrysomelidae) » Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines (Cassidinae) » Chalepini » Octotoma » Octotoma marginicollis

Species Octotoma marginicollis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Hispine feeding on some kind of aster - Octotoma marginicollis

Octotoma marginicollis? - Octotoma marginicollis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)

Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)

Subfamily Cassidinae (Tortoise Beetles and the Hispines)

Tribe Chalepini

Genus Octotoma

Species marginicollis (Octotoma marginicollis)

Explanation of Names

Octotoma marginicollis Horn 1883

Size

4.9-6.0 mm (1)

Identification

our only sp. with elytral carinae restricted to the apical half(1); color variable

Range

CA to sw. TX, UT / Mex. - Map (2)(3)(4)

Season

Apr-Nov in AZ (BG data)

Food

host: Thurber's desertpeony - Acourtia (=Perezia) thurberi (Asteraceae); adults also on many other plants (Fraxinus, Baccharis, Brickellia, Viguiera, Monarda)(2)

See Also

O. plicatula occurs further east and feeds on Campsis radicans (trumpet vine)

Print References

Horn, G.H. 1883. Miscellaneous notes and short studies of North American Coleoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 10: 269-312.

Internet References

Type - MCZ, Harvard

Works Cited

1.	The Hispine Beetles of America North of Mexico (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) Charles L. Staines. 2006. 2006. Virginia Museum of Natural History, in association with the Smithsonian Institution.

2.	Catalog of the hispines of the World

3.	Catalog of Leaf Beetles of America North of Mexico Ed Riley, Shawn Clark, and Terry Seeno. 2003. Coleopterists Society.

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 14 July, 2008 - 9:48am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 29 May, 2019 - 2:28pm

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