Asamangulia cuspidata

Asamangulia cuspidata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Genus:	Asamangulia
Species:	A. cuspidata
Binomial name
	Asamangulia cuspidata; Maulik, 1915
Synonyms
	Asamangulia dreesi Uhmann, 1954;

Asamangulia cuspidata is a species of beetle of the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Afghanistan, India (Bihar, West Bengal), Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, Nepal and possibly Saudi Arabia.²

Description

Adults have shiny black body, covered with spines.

The recorded host plants for this species are Saccharum officinarum, Oryza sativa and Sorghum species.³ The larvae mine the leaves of their host plant, feeding between the upper and lower epidermis.⁴

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