Cephaloleia postuma
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Cephaloleia
Name
Cephaloleia postuma Weise, 1905a – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Cephalolia postuma Weise 1905a[1]: 131. Weise 1911a[2]: 9 (catalog), 1911b[3]: 10 (catalog).
- Cephaloleia postuma Weise. Blackwelder 1946[4]: 719 (catalog); Papp 1953[5]: 20 (catalog); Uhmann 1957a[6]: 23 (catalog); Staines 1996[7]: 50 (Central America species).
Description
Elongate; subparallel; subdepressed; head (except yellow frons), antennae, and scutellum black; pronotum yellowish with longitudinal black vitta; elytra black with narrow yellow vitta between puncture rows 4 and 5, lateral margin entirely black; venter with pro-, meso-, and metasternum yellow medially, black laterally, abdominal sterna 1–4 yellow medially, dark laterally, sternite 5 entirely dark; leg with coxae and trochanter blackish, femur yellow, darkened at base and apex, tibia and tarsi dark brown. Head: vertex densely punctate, medial sulcus absent; inverted V-shaped sulcus between eyes; frons not projecting; slightly depressed between eyes. Antenna: reaches to humerus; slender; antennomere 1 robust, elongate, as long as 2–4 combined; 2 transverse; 3 triangular, longer than 2; 4–6 elongate; 7–10 transverse; 11 pointed at apex; 1–3 punctate with scattered setae; 4–11 setose. Pronotum: transverse; lateral margin straight, divergent for basal ⅔ then rounding to anterior angle, narrowly margined; anterior angle rounded, slightly produced; posterior angle acute, slightly produced; anterior margin straight; disc subconvex; surface with few scattered punctures laterally; basal impression absent; pronotal length 1.0 mm; pronotal width 1.4 mm. Scutellum: triangular; pointed at apex; impunctate. Elytron: lateral margin straight, smooth, narrowly margined; apex rounded; sutural angle without tooth; humerus rounded, not produced; slightly constricted behind humerus; shallowly punctate-striate, rows converge and unite apically; elytral length 4.4 mm; elytral width 1.9 mm. Venter: pro- and mesosterna impunctate; metasternum impunctate medially, punctate laterally; abdominal sterna punctate, each puncture with pale seta; suture between sterna 1 and 2 complete. Leg slender; impunctate; tibia with fringe of setae on inner margin of apex. Total length: 5.5–6.0 mm.
Diagnosis
This species is similar to Cephaloleia eumorpha and Cephaloleia interrupta. It can be distinguished by antennomere 1 being subequal in length to 2 to 4 combined and by the black color.
Distribution
Mexico.
Type material examined
Lectotype: Tiacotaipam/ Zool. Mus. Berlin/ Cephalolia postuma m I. Weise determ. 1904/ Lectotype Cephaloleia postuma Weise, des C. L. Staines 1993 [red label] (ZMHB).
Specimens examined
MEXICO: Tiacotaipam (ZMHB). Total: 2.
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
- ↑ Weise J (1905a) Aufzählung mexicanischer Hispinen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Berlin 1905: 130–135.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
