Cephaloleia pretiosa Baly 1858

Elongate; subparallel; subconvex; shining; head and pronotum black; pronotal margin, scutellum, legs, and elytra reddish-brown; venter with prosternum reddish-brown medially, darker laterally, meso-, metasterna and abdominal sterna totally reddish-brown; leg with first pair black, rest reddish-brown or all reddish-brown. Head: vertex punctate, medial sulcus absent; frons not projecting; slightly depressed between eyes. Antenna: reaches to humerus; slender; antennomere 1 incrassate, longer than 2, subequal to 3; 2 transverse; 3 elongate; 4–10 transverse, decreasing in length; 11 pointed at apex, longer than 10; 1–2 punctate with scattered setae; 3–11 setose. Pronotum: subquadrate; lateral margin nearly straight then rounding to anterior angle, narrowly canaliculate; anterior angle rounded, slightly produced; posterior angle acute; anterior margin emarginate behind head; disc subconvex; surface punctate, less so on disc; basal impression absent; pronotal length 1.1–1.3 mm; pronotal width 1.7 mm. Scutellum: pentagonal, impunctate. Elytron: lateral margin straight, smooth, margined; apex rounded; sutural angle without tooth; humerus rounded, slightly produced, slightly carinate at base; slightly constricted behind humerus; declivity beginning just behind humerus at puncture row 7 not edged with faint carina; shallowly punctate-striate, rows converge and unite apically; elytral length 4.1 mm; elytral width 2.1 mm. Venter: pro-, 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 broadly emarginate medially in male, rounded in female. Leg: slender; punctate, each puncture with pale seta; tibia with fringe of setae on inner margin of apex. Total len gth: 5.0–6.8 mm.

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela.