title: Octotoma
text: # Octotoma
  
  Octotoma is a genus of tortoise beetles and hispines in the family Chrysomelidae. There are about 12 described species in Octotoma.
  
  ## Species
  
  These 12 species belong to the genus Octotoma:
  
  * Octotoma brasiliensis Weise, 1921
  * Octotoma championi Baly, 1886 (lantana leafminer)
  * Octotoma crassicornis Weise, 1910
  * Octotoma germari Hagenbach
  * Octotoma gundlachii Suffrian, 1868
  * Octotoma intermedia Staines, 1989
  * Octotoma marginicollis Horn, 1883
  * Octotoma nigra Uhmann, 1940
  * Octotoma plicatula (Fabricius, 1801) (trumpet creeper leaf miner)
  * Octotoma puncticollis Staines, 1994
  * Octotoma scabripennis Guérin-Méneville, 1844
  * Octotoma variegata Uhmann, 1954
  