Description
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Oval; convex; metallic blue, venter and legs dark brown with bluish sheen. Head: vertex finely punctate, medial sulcus absent; frons projecting; slightly depressed between eyes. Antenna: reaches to humerus; slender; antennomere 1 clavate, subequal in length to 3; 2 transverse, ½ length of 1; 3 elongate; 4–10 elongate, subequal in length, each shorter than 3; 11 2× length of 10, subequal in length to 1 and 3, acutely pointed at apex; 1–2 punctate with scattered setae; 3–11 setose. Pronotum: transverse; lateral margin evenly arcuate from base to anterior angle, margined; anterior angle rounded, slightly produced; posterior angle acute; anterior margin emarginate behind head; disc subconvex; surface uneven, with two vague, rounded depressions between middle and lateral margin; surface sparsely, irregularly punctate, alutaceous; basal impression absent; pronotal length 1.1 mm; pronotal width 1.9 mm. Scutellum: broadly triangular; impunctate. Elytron: lateral margin slightly expanded apically, smooth, margined; apex rounded; sutural angle without tooth; humerus rounded, not produced; slightly constricted behind humerus; moderately punctate-striate, rows converge and unite apically; elytral length 3.4 mm; elytral width 2.4 mm. Venter: prosternum impunctate medially, rugose laterally; meso- and metasterna impunctate medially, punctate laterally; abdominal sterna punctate; suture between sterna 1 and 2 complete; last sternite with apical margin broadly sinuate in male, less so in female; pygidium setose. Leg: slender; punctate; tibia with fringe of golden setae at apex. Total length: 4.7–5.4 mm.
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- cc-by-3.0
- copyright
- 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