Octotoma scabripennis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Genus
- Octotoma
- Species
- Octotoma scabripennis
- Scientific Name
- Octotoma scabripennis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Octotoma scabripennis
Octotoma scabripennis, known as the lantana leafminer and lantana leaf beetle, is a species of beetle in the family Chrysomelidae, originally from Central America (where it has been recorded from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua) and 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.
...Octotoma scabripennis in languages:
- English
- Lantana Leafminer Beetle
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