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Description

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Small; subdepressed; shining; black; lateral margin of pronotum and elytra and tarsi brownish. Head: vertex finely, densely punctate, medial sulcus absent; frons not projecting; not depressed between eyes. Antenna: as long as head and pronotum combined; slender; antennomeres 1 and 2 subequal in length; 1 cylindrical; 2 subglobular; 3 2× length of 2, cylindrical, elongate, more slender; 4 cylindrical, elongate, shorter than 3; 5–10 decreasing in length, becoming transverse; 11 2× length of 10, acutely pointed at apex; 1–5 punctate with scattered setae; 6–11 setose. Pronotum: transverse; lateral margin rounded, smooth, margined; anterior angle rounded, produced; posterior angle acute; anterior margin curved posteriorly behind head; disc subconvex; disc with fine, irregular punctures, punctures larger, denser laterally; transverse basal impression present medially; pronotal length 0.4–0.5 mm; pronotal width 1.1–1.3 mm. Scutellum: pentagonal; impunctate. Elytron: lateral margin straight, smooth, margined; apex obliquely rounded; sutural angle with small tooth; humerus rounded, not produced; slightly constricted behind humerus; finely punctate-striate, punctures obsolete at apex; elytral length 2.3–2.8 mm; elytral width 1.2–1.4 mm. Venter: prosternum rugose medially, punctate laterally; meso- and metasterna impunctate medially, punctate laterally; abdominal sterna punctate, each puncture with white seta; suture between sterna 1 and 2 complete; last sternite with apical margin emarginate in male. Leg: slender; punctate; femur and tibia with pale seta in each puncture; tibia with fringe of setae on inner margin of apex. Total length: 3.3–3.7 mm.
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Charles L. Staines, Carlos García-Robledo
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Staines C, García-Robledo C (2014) The genus Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) ZooKeys 436: 1–355
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Charles L. Staines
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Carlos García-Robledo
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Distribution

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Argentina, Brazil (Matto Grosso), Paraguay.
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Charles L. Staines, Carlos García-Robledo
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Staines C, García-Robledo C (2014) The genus Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) ZooKeys 436: 1–355
author
Charles L. Staines
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Carlos García-Robledo
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