Eight-spotted flea beetle
Omophoita cyanipennis
The eight-spotted flea beetle is a leaf beetle that can jump. It lives in warm places around the Caribbean Sea and in the Americas. Its name tells you to look for eight spots on its back.
Lives in
The Caribbean, Central America, North America and Colombia
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting people.
What does it eat?
Like other flea beetles, it eats the leaves of plants.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Eight-spotted flea beetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Flea beetles have thick back legs and can jump away like fleas when something disturbs them.
2
There are two subspecies of it, slightly different groups that live in different places.
3
One subspecies was named in 1798 and the other one in 1873.
you asked
Most asked questions about Eight-spotted flea beetle
?Can the eight-spotted flea beetle jump?
Yes. Like other flea beetles, it has strong back legs and jumps away when disturbed.
?What does the eight-spotted flea beetle eat?
Like other flea beetles, it eats plant leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Omophoita cyanipennis
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1798
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Chrysomelidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Omophoita cyanipennis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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