Cyrtonota sexpustulata

Cyrtonota sexpustulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Cassidinae
Genus:	Cyrtonota
Species:	C. sexpustulata
Binomial name
	Cyrtonota sexpustulata; (Fabricius, 1781)
Synonyms
	Cassida sexpustulata (Fabricius, 1781); Mesomphalia sexpustulata Hope, 1840;

Cyrtonota sexpustulata is a leaf beetle belonging to the family Chrysomelidae.^[2]^[3]

Description

Cyrtonota sexpustulata can reach a length of 13–14 millimetres (0.51–0.55 in). Body is dark bluish or black with six orange-red spots on the elytrae.^[4] The main host plant is Ipomoea batatas (Convolvulaceae).^[1]

Distribution

This species can be found in Brazil.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Biol.uni
^ Biolib
^ Catalogue of Life
^ Lukáš SEKERKA & Maxwell V. L. BARCLAY Fabrician types of Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) deposited in the Natural History Museum, London Archived 2015-01-31 at the Wayback Machine ACTA ENTOMOLOGICA MUSEI NATIONALIS PRAGAE

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[3] Catalogue of Life

[fb-4] Lukáš SEKERKA & Maxwell V. L. BARCLAY Fabrician types of Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) deposited in the Natural History Museum, London Archived 2015-01-31 at the Wayback Machine ACTA ENTOMOLOGICA MUSEI NATIONALIS PRAGAE

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