Octotoma plicatula (Fabricius, 1801) is a animal in the Chrysomelidae family, order Coleoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Octotoma plicatula (Fabricius, 1801)

Octotoma plicatula (Fabricius, 1801)

Octotoma plicatula, the trumpet creeper leaf miner, is a leaf beetle in Chrysomelidae found across much of the United States in North America.

Family
Genus
Octotoma
Order
Coleoptera
Class
Insecta

About Octotoma plicatula (Fabricius, 1801)

Octotoma plicatula, commonly known as the trumpet creeper leaf miner, is a species of leaf beetle that belongs to the Chrysomelidae family. It is native to North America, and has been officially recorded in multiple areas of the United States: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Photo: (c) Thomas Shahan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Thomas Shahan · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Coleoptera Chrysomelidae Octotoma

More from Chrysomelidae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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