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| genus = Laccoptera<br />
| species = quatuordecimnotata<br />
| authority = [[Carl Henrik Boheman|Boheman]], 1855<br />
| synonyms = * ''Laccoptera (Laccoptera) quatuordecim-notata'' <small>Spaeth, 1914</small><br />
* ''Laccoptera quatuordecimpunctata'' <small>[sic]: Medvedev, 1957</small><br />
* ''Laccoptera (Laccopteroidea) quatuordecimnotata'' <small>Borowiec, 1999</small><br />
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'''''Laccoptera (Laccopteroidea) quatuordecimnotata''''', is a species of [[Chrysomelidae|leaf beetle]] native to India, and Sri Lanka.<ref>{{Cite web |title=New records of Asian and Australopapuan Cassidinae, with a description of five new species of Cassida L. from Thailand (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239277543 |access-date=2021-09-21 |website=Genus Vol. 12(4): 493-562 Wroc³aw, 28 XII 2001}}</ref><br />
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==Description==<br />
Host plant are ''[[Ipomoea]]'' species, ''[[Argyreia elliptica]]'' and ''[[Argyreia hookeri]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Laccoptera (Laccopteroidea) quatuordecimnotata Boheman, 1855 |url=http://www.cassidae.uni.wroc.pl/katalog%20internetowy/laccopteraquatuordecimnotata.htm |access-date=2021-09-24 |website=cassidae}}</ref> Both adult and the final instars are voracious plant eaters, that feed on upper and lower surfaces of leaf lamina. Feeding areas are parallel to the veins which give elongate-shaped holes of about 14 mm long and 4 mm wide.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tortoise beetles and their host plants from Pune (Maharashtra State, India) and nearby places (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) |url=http://www.cassidae.uni.wroc.pl/Pune%20Cassidinae%20host%20plants.pdf |access-date=2021-09-24 |website=Genus Vol. 14 (4): 519-539 Wroclaw, 28 XII 2003}}</ref><br />
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Adult female lays eggs on the leaf surface. Eggs are covered in a transparent egg-case which is bound with feceal threads. Final instar grub has a flat and obovate body and is about 12 mm long. There are 16 pairs of light brownish lateral projections and a pair of supra-anal processes on the body. Head oval, dark brown. There are five large, black ocelli on each side of the head. Dorsal surface is dark brown with dense chitinous platelets. Lateral projections are covered with many spinules. Thoracic sternites and first, second abdominal sternites are all whitish yellow. These sternites lack chitinous platelets. Antenna with 2 segments. Prothorax with a pair of large subpentagonal black shields. It bears a large triangular mass of feces on the cast skins of the preceding four larval instars.<ref name= cassi>{{Cite web |title=IMMATURE STAGES OF SOME INDIAN CASSIDINAE (COLEOPTERA: CHRYSOMELIDAE) |url=https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/9807/1/21_p19-48.pdf |access-date=2021-09-24 |website=INSECTA MATSUMURANA NEW SERIES 21: 19-48 JULY, 1980}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ranade |first1=Sachin P. |last2=Ghate |first2=Hemant V. |last3=Świętojaska |first3=Jolanta |date=2004-10-01 |title=Detailed Description of First and Last Instar Larva and Pupa of Laccoptera Foveolata (Boheman, 1856) from India with Notes on Its Bionomy (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) |url=https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/miiz/annales/2004/00000054/00000004/art00011 |access-date=2021-09-24 |journal=Annales Zoologici |volume=54 |issue=4 |pages=783–796 |doi=10.3161/0003454043651825|doi-broken-date=12 July 2025 }}</ref><br />
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Pupation occur within the cover made of cast skins and feces. Pupa with long oval and glabrous body which is about 12 mm long. Dorsal surface light brownish with some black patches. Head dark brown in color. Pronotum flat, and depressed anteriorly. Mesothorax and metathorax areas with dark patches. Elytral area is dark brown.<ref name= cassi /><br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Laccoptera]]<br />
[[Category:Beetles of Sri Lanka]]<br />
[[Category:Beetles described in 1855]]<br />
[[Category:Beetles of Nepal]]<br />
[[Category:Beetles of Asia]]<br />
[[Category:Taxa named by Carl Henrik Boheman]]<br />
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