Platypria echidna
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Platypria echidna Guérin-Méneville, 1840
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Platypria (Platypria) echidna, is a species of leaf beetle found India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Vietnam.[1][2]
Description
Antenna thin, which is extending beyond scutellum over pronotum. There are six spines on each side of the anterior lateral lobe of the elytra. Elytra is covered with white pubescence. Elytral punctures are large and sub-quadrate. The anterior and posterior-lateral lobes on the elytra are reddish.[3]
Biology
Adult female lays a single egg covered with secretions that becomes an ootheca. Larva is a leaf miner that feed and live in mesophyll tissues.[4] It is found in wide varieties of host plants including: Mallotus, Desmodium gangeticum, Erythrina subumbrans, Erythrina lithosperma, Erythrina variegata, Pueraria tuberosa, Ziziphus mauritiana, Ziziphus nummularia, Ziziphus oenoplia, Ziziphus rugosa, and Ziziphus xylopyrus.[3]
References
- ^ "ON THE COLLECTION OF HISPINAE (COLEOPTERA : CHRYSOMELIDAE) PRESEERVED IN THE ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA, CALCUTTA". Rec. zool. Surv. India: 97 (Part-3) : 149-190, 1999. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.893.6766. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
- ^ "Cassidinae collected during Czech-Polish Expedition to Maharashtra, India* (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Genus: Vol. 18(2): 279-295 , Wroclaw, 30 VI 2007. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
- ^ a b Ranade, Sachin; Prathapan, Kaniyarikkal Divakaran; Ghate, Hemant V.; Chaboo, Caroline S. (2021-04-14). "Natural history of Platypria (Platypria) hystrix (Fabricius, 1798) on Fabaceae host plants, with notes on other Platypria species in India (Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae, Hispini)". ZooKeys (1031): 59–84. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1031.60129. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
- ^ "Leaf mining Coleoptera of the Indian subcontinent-Indian Journals". www.indianjournals.com. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
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