| Octotoma | |
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| Octotoma plicatula | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Cassidinae |
| 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.
These species belong to the genus Octotoma:
| Species | Taxon name and author | Habitat | Notes | ITIS ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Octotoma brasiliensis  | Octotoma brasiliensis (Julius Weise, 1921) | Brazil | 841433 | |
| Lantana leafminer | Octotoma championi (Joseph Sugar Baly, 1886) | Texas, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama | Larvae have been recorded feeding on Lantana camara, Lantana hispida and Lantana trifolia, while adults feed on Mentha, Origanum and Sesamum species. | 719970 |
| Octotoma crassicornis | Octotoma crassicornis (Julius Weise, 1910) | Brazil | 841434 | |
| Octotoma gundlachii | Octotoma gundlachii (Christian Suffrian, 1868) | Cuba | Introduced to Hawaii, but is not established there. They have been recorded feeding on Lantana species. | 841437 |
| Octotoma intermedia | Octotoma intermedia (Charles L. Staines, 1989) | Tamaulipas | 841438 | |
| Octotoma marginicollis | Octotoma marginicollis (Walther Horn, 1883) | United States, Mexico | They have been recorded feeding on Perezia thurberi. Adults have been collected on Fraxinus species. | 719971 |
| Octotoma nigra | Octotoma nigra (Erich Uhmann, 1940) | Bahia | 841435 | |
| Trumpet creeper leaf miner | Octotoma plicatula (Johan Christian Fabricius, 1801) | United States | 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. | 719972 |
| Octotoma puncticollis | Octotoma puncticollis (Charles L. Staines, 1994) | Guatemala | 844878 | |
| Lantana leaf beetle | Octotoma scabripennis (Félix Guérin-Méneville, 1844) | El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua | Introduced into Australia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Ghana, Guam, Hawaii, India, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands and South Africa to kill the invasive Lantana camara plant. | 187785 |
| Octotoma variegata | Octotoma variegata (Erich Uhmann, 1954) | Bahia | 841436 |