
Leptinotarsa is a genus of leaf beetles.
Colorado Potato Beetle
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Leptinotarsa is a genus of leaf beetles.
Several species in the genus produce leptinotarsin, a toxin similar to the diamphotoxin produced by species of the African leaf beetle genus Diamphidia. Some Leptinotarsa species are parasitised by ground beetles of genus Lebia.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).