Octotoma Dejean.
Octotoma Suffrian.
Hispa plicatula Fabricius.
Octotoma can be distinguished by the following combination of characters:
Body wedged‑shaped.
Head: medial sulcus present or absent.
Antenna: with 8‑antennomeres; reaching to base of pronotumpronotum:
occupies all of dorsal part of the prothorax; in anterior angles or posterior angles there may be a small tubercle or pore with a seta
; antennomere 1 subglobose; 7 as wide as 8; 8 oval, subacute at tip.
Pronotum: transverse; tooth present in anterior angle; margined laterally; four depressions present, two before and two after midline.
Elytron: with 8 or 10 rows of punctures plus scutellar row; costae may be developed; some species with transverse and lateral carinae, these species having asymmetrical sculpture.
Leg: femurfemur:
largest part of the leg; more or less cylindrical, attached at base to trochanter and at apex to tibia
distinctly sinuate beneath near apex; tibiatibia:
variable in length; joins femur and tarsus
curved at base, protibia more dilated than others and with outer edge sinuate; tarsomeres dilated, densely pubescent beneath, tarsomere 1 small, 2 twice as long as wide, 3 longer than 2 and deeply bilobed, 4 little longer than lobes of 3; claws divergent.
Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, México Nicaragua, Panamá United States.
Introduced into: Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Ghana, Guam, Hawaii, India, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, South Africa.
Described species: 10 (Staines 2012). Key: Staines 1989b, 1994c, 1996(1997), 2006b.
Perezia (Asteraceae); Campsis (Bignoniaceae); Lantana (Verbenaceae).
Chevrolat, L. A. A. 1836. in P. F. M. A. Dejean, Catalogue des Coléoptères de la collection de M. le comte Dejean. Troisième edition, revue, corrigée et augmentée, livr. 5, pp. 385‑503. Mequignon-Marvis. Paris.
Staines, C. L. 1989b. A revision of the genus Octotoma (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Hispinae). Insecta Mundi 3:41‑56.
Staines, C. L. 1994c. A new species of Octotoma Chevrolat, 1837 from Guatemala (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Hispinae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 102(2):249-250.
Staines, C. L. 1996(1997). The Hispinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Nicaragua. Revista Nicaragüense de Entomología 37/38:1-65.
Staines, C. L. 2006b. The hispine beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) of America north of Mexico. VirginiaMuseum of Natural History Special Publication Number 13. 178 pp.
Staines, C. L. 2012. Tribe Chalepini. Catalog of the hispines of the world (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). http://entomology.si.edu/Collections_Coleoptera.html