Deloyala guttata

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| taxon = Deloyala guttata

| authority = (Olivier, 1790)

| image = Deloyala guttata - Mottled Tortoise Beetle.jpg

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Deloyala guttata, the mottled tortoise beetle, is a species of tortoise beetle in the family Chrysomelidae.{{cite web|url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/13540|title=Deloyala guttata Species Information|website=BugGuide.net|access-date=2018-02-04}}{{cite web|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=720018|title=Deloyala guttata Report|website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System|access-date=2018-02-04}} It is found in the Caribbean, Central America, North America, and South America.{{cite web|url=http://texasento.net/Crypto.html|title=North American Cryptocephalus species (Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae)|website=Texas Entomology|publisher=Mike Quinn|access-date=2018-02-04}}{{cite web|url=https://entomology.si.edu/collections_coleoptera-hispines.html|title=Staines C.L. (2011). "Catalog of the hispines of the World".|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|access-date=2018-02-04}}

File:Deloyala guttata P1150234a.jpg Larva carry shields made from exuviae and frass on their abdomen that they lift to shield their dorsum from predators.{{cite journal |last1=Olmstead |first1=Karen L. |last2=Denno |first2=Robert F. |title=Effectiveness of Tortoise Beetle Larval Shields Against Different Predator Species |journal=Ecology |date=1993 |volume=74 |issue=5 |pages=1394–1405 |doi=10.2307/1940069 |jstor=1940069 |bibcode=1993Ecol...74.1394O |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1940069 |access-date=13 May 2022 |issn=0012-9658|url-access=subscription }}