Description
(
anglais
)
fourni par Zookeys
Elongate; large; subdepressed; yellow; head, antennae, and scutellum black, pronotum with black anterior and posterior maculae, elytra yellow with black sutural vitta to puncture row 2 and black lateral vitta to puncture row 8, sutural and lateral vittae unite near apex; venter with pro-, meso-, metasterna, and abdominal sterna yellow medially, black laterally; leg with femur yellow except for base and apex, tibia and tarsi darker. Head: vertex sparsely, finely punctate, with 3 carinae near base of antennae; frons punctate, not projecting; slightly depressed between eyes. Antenna: reaches to humerus; slender; antennomere 1 incrassate, with fringe of setae on lower apex, largest, longer than 2 and 3 combined; 2 transverse; 3 transverse and triangular in male, elongate in female; 4–10 elongate, subequal in length; 11 rounded at apex, ¾ length of 1; 1–3 punctate with scattered setae; 4–11 setose. Pronotum: transverse; lateral margin straight and divergent for basal ¾ then rounding to anterior angle, margined; anterior angle rounded, not produced; posterior angle angulate; anterior margin weakly emarginate behind head; disc flattened; surface sparsely, irregularly punctate, disc impunctate; basal impression absent; pronotal length 1.4–1.6 mm; pronotal width 1.7–1.9 mm. Scutellum: pentagonal; alutaceous. Elytron: lateral margin straight, smooth, margined; apex rounded; sutural angle without tooth; humerus rounded, not produced; slightly constricted behind humerus; declivity beginning just behind humerus at puncture row 7 not edged with faint carina; disc flattened; shallowly punctate-striate, punctures obsolete apically; elytral length 5.9 mm; elytral width 2.7 mm. Venter: pro-, meso-, and metasterna impunctate medially, rugose laterally; abdominal sterna punctate, each puncture with pale seta; suture between sterna 1 and 2 complete; last sternite with apical margin rounded in female, bisinuate in male. Leg: slender; apex of tibia with spoon-shaped depression with fringe of setae; mesolegs densely pubescent. Total length: 7.0–8.5 mm.
- licence
- cc-by-3.0
- droit d’auteur
- Charles L. Staines, Carlos García-Robledo
- citation bibliographique
- Staines C, García-Robledo C (2014) The genus Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) ZooKeys 436: 1–355
- auteur
- Charles L. Staines
- auteur
- Carlos García-Robledo