Deloyala guttata
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| Deloyala guttata | |
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| File:Deloyala guttata - Mottled Tortoise Beetle.jpg | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Deloyala |
| Species: | D. guttata
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| Binomial name | |
| Deloyala guttata (Olivier, 1790)
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Deloyala guttata, the mottled tortoise beetle, is a species of tortoise beetle in the family Chrysomelidae.[1][2] It is found in the Caribbean, Central America, North America, and South America.[2][3][4]
Larva carry shields made from exuviae and frass on their abdomen that they lift to shield their dorsum from predators.[6]
References
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- Borowiec, Lech (1999). A world catalogue of the Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), 476.
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
- Riley, Edward G., Shawn M. Clark, and Terry N. Seeno (2003). "Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae)". Coleopterists Society Special Publication no. 1, 290.
- White, Richard E. (1968). A Review of the Genus Cryptocephalus in America North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Press.
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