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Octuroplata octopustulata

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionNov 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ2694663 ↗
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Octuroplata octopustulata is a species of beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. Known from Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay, it is a leaf miner that has been documented feeding on Senna australis, Eugenia ovalifolia, and Ouratea cuspidata. It was initially described by Joseph Sugar Baly in 1864 as Uroplata octopustulata, but would be transferred to the genus Octuroplata in 1937 by Erich Uhmann and combined as Octuroplata octopustulata.

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This entry incorporates text from “Octuroplata octopustulata” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.