Description
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Elongate; subdepressed; bright shining red; antennomeres 1-6 red, 7-11 black. Head: vertex smooth, faint medial sulcus present; sparsely, irregularly punctate around eye; frons not projecting; not depressed between eyes. Antenna: reaches to humerus; robust; antennomere 1 compressed, subclavate, obliquely truncate at apex, longer than 2; 2–3 in male triangularly expanded, elongate in female; 3 longer than 2; 4–10 transverse, each shorter than 2, decreasing in length; 11 2× length of 10, bluntly rounded at apex; 1–6 punctate with scattered setae; 7–11 setose. Pronotum: subquadrate; lateral margin straight then rounding to anterior angle, canaliculate; anterior angle obtuse, produced; posterior angle acute; anterior margin emarginate behind head, slightly curved; disc subconvex; surface distinctly but sparsely punctate; transverse medial basal impression present; pronotal length 2.0–2.2 mm; pronotal width 2.9–3.2 mm. Scutellum: pentagonal; impunctate. Elytron: lateral margin straight, smooth, narrowly margined; apex obtusely rounded; sutural angle without tooth; humerus rounded, not produced; constricted behind humerus; moderately convex, scarcely flattened at suture; short longitudinal sulcus present at base near humerus; moderately punctate-striate, punctures large, ovate; pygidium obtusely rounded; elytral length 6.7–7.0 mm; elytral width 3.6–4.0 mm. Venter: prosternum impunctate; meso- and metasterna impunctate medially, punctate laterally; abdominal sterna punctate, each puncture with pale seta; suture between sterna 1 and 2 obsolete medially; last sternite with apical margin rounded, sinuate at apex in male, rounded, entire in female. Leg: slender; sparsely punctate; femur robust; tibia with fringe of setae on inner margin of apex. Total length: 9.0–9.6 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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Bolivia, Brazil (Amazonas, Minas Gerais, Pará, Rondonia), Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru.
- license
- 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