Texas Beetle Information

Return to Texas Entomology - Compiled by Mike Quinn

Orange-shouldered Leaf Miner

Odontota scapularis (Olivier)

Family Chrysomelidae, Subfamily Cassidinae, Tribe Chalepini

Harvard, Worcester Co., Massachusetts
August 13, 2005 (Tom Murray)

State Records for Odontota scapularis

State Record Data from Riley et al. 2003

Host Plants:

The normal host plant is Groundnut - Apios americana - Fabaceae.
This beetle has been recorded from a few other species of Fabaceae (Clark et al. 2004).

Groundnut - Apios americana - USDA Plant Profile

Adult Activity: March 29-July 27 based on 11 specimens in Alabama (Balsbaugh & Hays 1972)

Similar Species: Nine species comprise this genus which ranges from northern South America to southern Canada (Arnett et al. 2002).

Texas Taxa:

Odontota dorsalis (Thunberg)
Odontota horni J. Smith
Odontota mundula (Sanderson)
Odontota scapularis (Olivier)

Weblinks: Odontota dorsalis - Leaf Beetles of Great Smoky Mountains NP - Edward G. Riley

Photos: Odontota species - Insects of Cedar Creek

Biography: Guillaume Antoine Olivier 1756-1814 - University of Nebraska-Lincoln State Museum - Division of Entomology

References:

Arnett, R.H., Jr., M.C. Thomas, P.E. Skelley & J.H. Frank. (editors). 2002. American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL. xiv + 861 pp.

Balsbaugh, E.U. & K.L. Hays. 1972. The Leaf beetles of Alabama (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Auburn University Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 441:1-223.

Butte, J.G. 1968. The revision of the tribe Chalepini of America north of Mexico. III. Genus Odontota Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 22(4): 101-124.

Chittenden, F.H. 1902. The leaf-mining locust beetle, with notes on related species. USDA, Division of Entomology Bulletin no. 38: 70-89.

Clark, S.M., D.G. LeDoux, T.N. Seeno, E.G. Riley, A.J. Gilbert & J.M. Sullivan. 2004. Host plants of leaf beetle species occurring in the United States and Canada (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae, Chrysomelidae exclusive of Bruchinae). Coleopterists Society, Special Publication no. 2, 476 pp.

Ford, E.J. & J.F. Cavey. 1985. Biology and larval descriptions of some Maryland Hispinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Coleopterists Bulletin 39(1):36-59.

Kogan, M. & D.D. Kogan. 1979. Odontota horni, a hispine leaf miner adapted to soybean feeding in Illinois. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 72: 456-461.

Riley, E.G., S.M. Clark, & T.N. Seeno. 2003. Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Coleopterists Society, Special Publication no. 1, 290 pp.