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Omocerus bicornis

Synonyms: Cassida bicornis

Wikipedia Abstract

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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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0