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Uroplata fulvopustulata

Uroplata fulvopustulata

Baly, 1885

Family: Chrysomelidae
Order: Coleoptera
Class: Insecta
Phylum / Division: Arthropoda
Kingdom: Animalia

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Uroplata fulvopustulata is a species of beetle of the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and possibly Brazil. It has been introduced to Australia (where it is found in northern Queensland), Fiji and South Africa.

 The head is very slightly produced between the eyes, while the front and vertex are smooth and impunctate. The antennae are more than one third the length of the body, slender at the base, thickened towards the apex, their joints cylindrical. The thorax is twice as broad at the base as long, the sides straight and slightly converging from the base to the middle, then more quickly converging and slightly sinuate to the apex, the anterior angle armed with a subacute tooth. The upper surface is transversely convex, transversely excavated on the hinder disc, coarsely and irregularly punctured. The elytra are much broader than the thorax, the sides gradually dilated from just before the middle to the posterior angle, the latter produced
into a triangular concave plate. The apical margin is obtuse and distinctly serrate and the lateral margin is finely and subremotely serrulate. Each elytron has ten, at the extreme base with eleven, rows of punctures. The suture, together with each alternate interspace is costate. The humeral callus is laterally prominent, fusco-seneous and marked with numerous small fulvous patches.

Biology: The recorded food plants are Lantana camara, Lippia muriocephala, Pithecoctenium echinatum, Calea species and Lippia species.

Source: Wikipedia, article Uroplata fulvopustulata. Content adapted from Wikipedia, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Accessed on 17/07/2026.





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Count: 5

Foto
Photography ID: 366886
  Adult

La Merced
Salta
Argentina
12/08/2019
Soledad Quipildor
Foto
Photography ID: 366884
  Adult

La Merced
Salta
Argentina
12/08/2019
Soledad Quipildor
Foto
Photography ID: 365279
  Adult

La Merced
Salta
Argentina
11/29/2019
Soledad Quipildor
Foto
Photography ID: 365278
  Adult

La Merced
Salta
Argentina
11/29/2019
Soledad Quipildor
Foto
Photography ID: 365277
  Adult

La Merced
Salta
Argentina
11/29/2019
Soledad Quipildor


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Record IDDateExact timeCountryProvince / departmentPlaceFilmedPhotographedRecorded vocalObservedHeardWounded or deadNumber of individualsUser or BibliographyDetail
114415108/12/2019ArgentinaSaltaLa Merced, La MercedSoledad Quipildor
113963929/11/2019ArgentinaSaltaLa MercedSoledad Quipildor
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Please use the following reference when citing this species account.
EcoRegistros. 2026. Uroplata fulvopustulata – Species account. Accessed from www.ecoregistros.org on 14/09/2026.