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Platypria melli Uhmann 1955
Creators
- 1. Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606 - 8501, Japan
Description
Platypria melli Uhmann, 1955
Fig. 19 Q – W
Host plant.
Rhamnaceae: Hovenia dulcis Thunb.
Leaf mine.
Full-depth blotch mine on the mature leaf (Fig. 19 V). Frass is granular deposited in the mine. The larva sometimes relocates its mine. The fully grown larva pupates in the mine, sometimes in a mine newly constructed for pupation (Fig. 19 W).
Material examined.
• 1 adult, Kin, Kamitsushima Is., Tsushima, Nagasaki Pref., 3-VII-2015 (as larva on Hovenia dulcis collected by T. Kato), emerged on 9–16-VIII-2015 (Fig. 19 Q – W).
Notes
Published as part of Kato, Makoto & Imada, Yume, 2025, Diversity and host plant utilization of leaf-mining beetles of Chrysomeloidea (Coleoptera) in Japan, pp. 209-268 in ZooKeys 1238 on pages 209-268, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1238.124514
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2015-07-03
- Verbatim event date
- 2015-07-03/08-16
- Scientific name authorship
- Uhmann
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Genus
- Platypria
- Species
- melli
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Platypria melli Uhmann, 1955 sec. Kato & Imada, 2025