Description
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Elongate; subdepressed; shining; pitchy-black except lateral margin of pronotum and elytra; elytra with metallic sheen; antennae and venter brownish. Head: vertex punctate, medial carina present; frons not projecting; depressed between eyes. Antenna: as long as head and pronotum combined; slender; antennomere 1 elongate; 2 shorter than 1; 3 subequal in length to 1; 4–10 elongate, nearly as long as 3; 11 2× length of 10, pointed at apex; 1–2 punctate with scattered setae; 3–11 setose. Pronotum: transverse; lateral margin arcuate, narrowly margined; anterior angle rounded, produced; posterior angle acute; anterior margin emarginate behind head; disc subdepressed; surface with large rounded punctures present laterally, disc nearly impunctate; transverse basal impression present medially; pronotal length 0.9–1.2 mm; pronotal width 1.3–1.7 mm. Scutellum: pentagonal; impunctate. Elytron: lateral margin weakly rounded, smooth, narrowly margined; apex obliquely rounded; sutural angle without tooth; humerus rounded, not produced; constricted behind humerus; weakly punctate-striate, punctures weaker apically; pygidium visible, triangular in female, angulate in male; elytral length 3.1–3.5 mm; elytral width 1.6–1.9 mm. Venter: pro-, meso-, and metasterna sparsely punctate; abdominal sterna sparsely punctate, each puncture with pale seta; suture between sterna 1 and 2 obsolete medially; last sternite with apical margin strongly sinuate in male, emarginate medially in female. Leg: slender; punctate; femur and tibia with pale seta in each puncture; tibia with fringe of setae on inner margin of apex. Total length: 4.0–5.0 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
Distribution
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Brazil (Bahia, Rondonia), Suriname, Venezuela.
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- cc-by-3.0
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- Charles L. Staines, Carlos García-Robledo
- bibliographic citation
- Staines C, García-Robledo C (2014) The genus Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) ZooKeys 436: 1–355
- author
- Charles L. Staines
- author
- Carlos García-Robledo