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]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Deloyala |
| Species: | D. guttata
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| Binomial name | |
| Deloyala guttata (Olivier, 1790)
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Larva carry shields made from exuviae and frass on their abdomen that they lift to shield their dorsum from predators.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Deloyala guttata Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
- ^ a b "Deloyala guttata Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
- ^ "North American Cryptocephalus species (Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae)". Texas Entomology. Mike Quinn. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
- ^ "Staines C.L. (2011). "Catalog of the hispines of the World"". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
- ^ "Images and collection data for Deloyala guttata". Pictures from Earth. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
- ^ Olmstead, Karen L.; Denno, Robert F. (1993). "Effectiveness of Tortoise Beetle Larval Shields Against Different Predator Species". Ecology. 74 (5): 1394–1405. Bibcode:1993Ecol...74.1394O. doi:10.2307/1940069. ISSN 0012-9658. JSTOR 1940069. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
Further reading
edit- 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 ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
- 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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