Odontota floridana Butte

Eiseman, Charles S., Feldman, Tracy S. & Palmer, Michael W., 2024, New larval host records, parasitoid records, and DNA barcoding data for North American leaf-mining leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea), Zootaxa 5549 (1), pp. 1-60 : 29

Odontota floridana Butte

( Figs. 16 , 69–70 , 145 )

Reared specimen. NORTH CAROLINA: Moore Co., Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve , 7.vi.2020, em. 26.vi.2020, T. S. Feldman, ex Tephrosia virginiana , # CSE6308 (1 adult, MLBM) .

Host. * Fabaceae : Tephrosia virginiana (L.) Pers. This is the first published larval or adult host association for O. floridana .

Biology. The oval, brown egg is deposited next to the midrib on the lower leaf surface ( Fig. 16 ). The larva forms full-depth blotch mines with frass in scattered, short, squiggly strips, requiring several leaflets to complete its development ( Figs. 69–70 ).

Figures

FIGURES 1–22. Eggs of Chalepini spp.; 1: Anisostena californica; 2: A. lecontii; 3: Baliosus californicus; 4: B. nervosus; 5: same; 6: Brachycoryna hardyi (photo by E. LoPresti); 7: B. pumila; 8: Chalepus bicolor; 9: C. walshii walshii; 10: Glyphuroplata pluto; 11: Microrhopala excavata excavata; 12: M. laetula; 13: M. vittata; 14: M. xerene; 15: Odontota dorsalis; 16: O. floridana; 17: O. horni (top view); 18: same (side view); 19: O. scapularis; 20: Sumitrosis ancoroides; 21: S. inaequalis; 22: S. rosea.

FIGURES 67–74. Leaf mines of Odontota spp.; 67: O. dorsalis on Amorpha fruticosa (upper surface in transmitted light); 68: same (lower surface in reflected light, with excrement-covered egg mass at lower right); 69: O. floridana on Tephrosia virginiana (leaflet almost completely mined out); 70: same (larva in newly established secondary mine); 71: O. horni on Desmodium illinoense; 72: lower surface of same mine, with three eggs visible (two along midrib and one at lower left); 73: O. scapularis on Apios americana; 74: lower surface of same mine, with excrement-covered egg mass at lower right.

FIGURES 142–161. Chrysomelidae adults; 142: Octotoma marginicollis; 143: O. plicatula; 144: Odontota dorsalis; 145: O. floridana; 146: O. horni; 147: O. scapularis; 148: Stenopodius cf. lateralis; 149: Sumitrosis ancoroides (reared from Stylosanthes biflora); 150: S. ancoroides (reared from Strophostyles helvola); 151: S. inaequalis; 152: S. pallescens; 153: S. rosea (reared from Hylodesmum glutinosum); 154: S. rosea (reared from Laportea canadensis); 155: S. rosea (another individual reared from same collection of L. canadensis leaves); 156: S. rosea (reared from Celastrus orbiculatus); 157: Oulema palustris; 158: Altica cf. lazulina; 159: Dibolia borealis; 160: D. chelones; 161: D. melampyri.