Omophoita Explained

Omophoita is a genus of flea beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. There are some 50 described species in North America and the Neotropics.

Selected species

• Omophoita aequinoctialis (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Omophoita albicollis (Fabricius, 1787)
• Omophoita blakeae Bechyné, 1958
• Omophoita clerica (Erichson, 1848)
• Omophoita cyanipennis (Fabricius, 1798) (eight-spotted flea beetle)
• Omophoita episcopalis
• Omophoita ernesta Bechyne
• Omophoita fulgida (Olivier, 1807)
• Omophoita ophthalmicus
• Omophoita osunai
• Omophoita peruviana
• Omophoita quadrinotata (Fabricius, 1798)
• Omophoita stenodera Bechyné, 1958
• Omophoita succincta

Further reading

• Book: Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). 2003. Riley . Edward G.. Clark . Shawn M.. Seeno . Terry N.. The Coleopterists' Society. Special Publication No. 1. 978-0-9726087-1-8.