Cephaloleia chica
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Cephaloleia
Name
Cephaloleia chica Staines sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Description
Small; elongate; subdepressed; head, scutellum, and antennae (except basal 2 antennomeres paler) black; pronotum yellow with black triangular macula behind head; elytra black with lateral and apical margins yellow and yellow vitta from basal margin to apical ⅓ on puncture rows 2–5; venter and legs dark yellowish. Head: vertex punctate, medial sulcus absent; eye large; frons not projecting; not depressed between eyes. Antenna: reaches to humerus; slender; antennomere 1 incrassate, elongate; 2–10 subequal in length, each ¾ length of 1; 11 3× length of 10, pointed at apex; 1–2 punctate with scattered setae; 3–11 setose. Pronotum: subquadrate; lateral margin straight then rounding to anterior angle, canaliculate; anterior angle rounded, not produced; posterior angle acute; anterior margin straight; disc subconvex; surface coarsely, irregularly punctate; transverse basal impression present; pronotal length 0.7 mm; pronotal width 1.0 mm. Scutellum: pentagonal; impunctate. Elytron: lateral margin straight, smooth, margined; apex weakly rounded; sutural angle without tooth; humerus rounded, not produced; slightly constricted behind humerus; moderately punctate-striate; elytral length 2.9; elytral width 1.1 mm. Venter: pro-, meso-, and metasterna impunctate; abdominal sterna punctate, each puncture with white seta; suture between abdominal sterna 1 and 2 obsolete medially; last sternite with apical margin shallowly emarginate. Leg: slender; femur and tibia punctate, each puncture with seta; tibia with fringe of setae on inner margin of apex. Total length: 3.9 mm.
Etymology
From chico (Spanish) meaning little or little one for the small size of this species. The name is feminine.
Diagnosis
This species is similar to Cephaloleia convexifrons. It can be distinguished by the small body size and the triangular macula on the anterior margin of the pronotum behind the head.
Distribution
Peru.
Type material
Holotype: Peru, Dept. Loreto, Explorama Lodge, 80 km NE Iquitos on Amazon River, VI-24/VII-20 1990, Menke and Awertschenko/ collected in malaise trap/ Holotype Cephaloleia chica Staines, des. C. L. Staines 2012 [red label] (USNM).
Original Description
- Staines, C; García-Robledo, C; 2014: The genus Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) ZooKeys, 436: 1-355. doi
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