Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Chrysomelidae Scientific name Omocerus bicornis | Phylum Arthropoda Order Coleoptera Subfamily Cassidinae Rank Species | |
Similar Discomorpha, Charidotella, Sternotomis, Calligrapha, Cassidinae | ||
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. 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.
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