Cephaloleia elegantula
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Cephaloleia
Name
Cephaloleia elegantula Baly, 1885 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Cephaloleia elegantula Baly 1885[1]: 17. Blackwelder 1946[2]: 719 (catalog); Papp 1953[3]: 16 (catalog); Uhmann 1957a[4]: 18 (catalog); Wilcox 1983[5]: 137 (catalog); Staines 1996[6]: 30 (Central America species), 2011[7]: 49 (faunal list); Staines and Staines 1999[8]: 524 (Baly species list).
- Cephalolia elegantula Baly. Donckier 1899[9]: 549 (catalog); Weise 1911a[10]: 8 (catalog), 1911b[11]: 12 (catalog).
Description
Small; elongate; subparallel; subconvex; antennae, except antennomere 1, black; head and legs yellow; pronotum reddish-yellow with black central macula; elytra yellow with black medial vitta expanding broadly to apex, recurving slightly in graceful arch almost following contour of elytral margin at apical 1/5; venter yellow except meso- and metasterna dark laterally. Head: finely punctate near eyes, medial sulcus present; frons not projecting; not depressed between eyes. Antenna: ⅔ body length; slender; antennomeres 1–7 cylindrical, elongate; 1 shorter than 2; 2 robust; 3 longest; 4–7 decreasing in length; 8–10 transverse, subequal in length, each shorter than 7; 11 2× length of 10, pointed at apex; 1–5 punctate with scattered setae; 6–11 setose. Pronotum: transverse; lateral margin straight from base to beyond middle then obliquely rounding to anterior angle, margined; anterior angle moderately obtuse, produced; posterior angle acute; anterior margin emarginate behind head; disc subconvex; surface punctate, more so laterally; basal impression absent; pronotal length 0.7–0.8 mm; pronotal width 1.0–1.2 mm. Scutellum: pentagonal; impunctate. Elytron: lateral margin straight, smooth, margined; apex rounded; sutural angle without tooth; humerus rounded, not produced; slightly constricted behind humerus; puncture rows moderately impressed; row 10 removed from margin for entire length; elytral length 2.7–3.2 mm; elytral width 1.5–1.7 mm. Venter: pro-, meso-, and metasterna impunctate medially, punctate laterally; abdominal sterna punctate, each puncture with pale seta; suture between sterna 1 and 2 complete; last sternite with apical margin emarginate medially in male, rounded in female. Leg: slender; punctate, each puncture with pale seta; femur robust; tibia with fringe of setae on inner margin of apex. Total length: 3.7–4.2 mm.
Diagnosis
This species is similar to Cephaloleia chevrolatii and Cephaloleia partita. It can be distinguished by antennomere 1 being elongate and by the elytral humerus being impunctate.
Host plant
According to label data, adults have been collected in palm frond (Areaceae).
Distribution
Brazil(?), Costa Rica, Panama.
Type material examined
Lectotype male: SYNTYPE [white disk with blue border]/ V. de Chiriqui, 25–400 ft., Champion [printed label]/ B.C.A. Col. VI, 2. Cephaloleia elegantula Baly [printed label]/ Cephaloleia elegantula Baly, Panama [handwritten label]/ Lectotype Cephaloleia elegantula Baly, des. C. L. Staines 1994 [red label] (BMNH).
Specimens examined
(?)BRAZIL: ?- Chapada (USNM). Costa Rica: San José- km 117 Pan American Hwy, 19 km N San Isidro, 20–25 June 1997 (SEMC). Puntarenas- 27 km S. Puerto Jimenez, Rio Piro, 75 m, November 1990 (BYUC). PANAMA: no further data (USNM). Bocas del Toro- Reserva La Fortuna, 28 May 1993 (EGRC). Chiriquí- Bugaba (BMNH). Herrera- Cerro Alto Higo, el. 900 m, 23 May 1992 (EGRC). Total: 11.
Taxon Treatment
- Staines, C; García-Robledo, C; 2014: The genus Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) ZooKeys, 436: 1-355. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Baly J (1885) Hispidae. In: Godman F Salvin O (Eds) Biologia CentraliAmericana, Zoology, Insecta, Coleoptera, Phytophaga. London, 6(2): 1124.
- ↑ Blackwelder R (1946) Checklist of the Coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America. United States National Museum Bulletin 185: 551–763.
- ↑ Papp C (1953) The Hispinae of America. 3rd Contribution for promoting the scientifical results of the International Hylean Amazon Institute in Manaos, Brazil. Portugaliae Acta Biologica (B) 4: 1–147.
- ↑ Uhmann E (1957a) Coleopterorum Catalogus. Supplementa. Chrysomelidae: Hispinae, Hispinae Americanae. W. Junk, Gravenhage. Pars 35(1): 1–153.
- ↑ Wilcox J (1983) Checklist of the beetles of Canada, United States, Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. Vol. 1, pt. 7. The Leaf Beetles. Biological Research Institute of America, Latham, NY, 166 pp.
- ↑ Staines C (1996) The genus Cephaloleia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Central America and the West Indies. Special Publication No. 3 of the Revista de Biología Tropical, 87 pp.
- ↑ Staines C (2011) Hispines (Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) of La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. ZooKeys 157: 45–65. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.157.1338
- ↑ Staines C, Staines S (1999) Joseph Sugar Baly: The man and his entomological works. Beiträge zur Entomologie 49: 489–530.
- ↑ Donckier H (1899) Catalogue systématique des Hispides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 68: 540–615.
- ↑ Weise J (1911a) Coleopterorum Catalogus, Chrysomelidae: Hispinae. W. Junk. Pars 35: 1–94.
- ↑ Weise J (1911b) Coleoptera Phytophaga fam. Chrysomelidae, subfam. Hispinae. In: Wytsman P (Ed) Genera Insectorum, Brussels, fasc. 125: 1–123.
