Omocerus bicornis
| Omocerus bicornis | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Cassidinae |
| Genus: | Omocerus |
| Species: | O. bicornis |
| Binomial name | |
| Omocerus bicornis (Linnaeus, 1763) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Omocerus bicornis is a species of tortoise beetle from South America. It lives on Cordia (Boraginaceae) plants, and is found in Brazil, Surinam, French Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.[1] It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1763 work Centuria Insectorum under the name Cassida bicornis, and was later made the type species of the genus Omocerus by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel and Alcide d'Orbigny in 1843.[2]
References
- 1 2 Lech Borowiec and Jolanta Świętojańska. "Omocerus (s. str.) bicornis (Linnaeus, 1763)". Cassidinae of the world - an interactive manual (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Retrieved February 7, 2011.
- ↑ Lech Borowiec (1998). "Review of the Cassidinae of Ecuador, with a description of thirteen new species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Genus. 9 (2): 155–246.
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