Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål, 1859

Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, 2015, Systematic revision of the genus Calligrapha Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae) in Central America: The group of Calligrapha argus Stål, Zootaxa 3922 (1), pp. 1-71 : 65-68

Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål, 1859

Stål, C. 1859: 325.

( Figs 12 a, 13g, 13h, 15)

Chrysomela aeneopicta: Stål, 1865 , Mon. Chrys. Amer., 3, p. 273.

Calligrapha aeneopicta: Gemminger & Harold, 1874 , Cat. Col., XI, p. 3432. Calligrapha aeneopicta: Jacoby, 1882 , Biol. Centr. Am., vol. 6, pt. 1, p. 195. Calligrapha aeneopicta: Dugés, 1901 , Cat. Col. Coleópt. Mex., p. 97.

Polyspila aeneopicta: Weise, 1916 , Col. Cat., pars 68, 12, p. 38.

Calligrapha aeneopicta: Blackwelder, 1946 , Checklist Col., Pt. 4, p. 674.

Calligrapha aeneopicta: Wilcox, 1975 , Checklist, Biol. Res. Inst. Amer., p. 66. Calligrapha aeneopicta: Burgos-Solorio & Anaya-Rosales, 2004 , Acta Zool. Mex. 20(3), p. 45.

Carl Stål used more than one specimen to describe this species, and at least some of them were nominally at the Stockholm Museum of Natural History (Stål 1865). The identity of the series has been lost, but I retain as lectotype the specimen currently labelled as type at NRM.

Lectotype by present designation: Mexico / Sallé. / Type. / Typus [red] (NRM). The specimen does not present any damage.

Habitus ( Fig. 12 a). Length: 8.00 mm, width: 5.00 mm. Body oval, elongated, moderately convex. Head, mandibles, pronotum, scutellum, ventral surfaces and legs black with bronzy greenish metallic reflections. Labrum, antennae, apex of mandibles, mouth parts, epipleura and elytral markings very dark rufous with slight bronzy metallic reflection; first antennomeres and labrum paler. Dark reddish hue also visible in legs and ventral parts, depending on light incidence. Elytra creamy yellow.

6. This record is most likely a labeling mistake, a misidentification or an accidental translocation of a Mexican specimen. The species in this group of Calligrapha do not reach beyond the very southern tip of Arizona, at the northern limit of the Sierra Madre Occidental.

Head finely microreticulate, moderately punctured all over, also on antennal calli and clypeus; frontal suture weak intersecting deep broadly V-shaped clypeal suture; supraocular furrow deep, surpassing upper eye margin posteriorly. Antennae relatively long, reaching slightly beyond humeri; first antennomere relatively long and thick, straight at posterior border, convex at anterior border, narrow basally; antennomeres 2–6 elongated, thin, relatively smooth and almost glabrous; second antennomere shortest, about half as long as first, third longer than first; antennomeres 3–6 shortening progressively, sixth clearly longer than second; segments beyond sixth antennomere progressively longer; antennomeres 8–11 thicker, widening from base to apex, rugose and pubescent; eleventh about as long as first, tappering towards blunt apex; eighth antennomere 0.76x as wide as long. Labrum small, with sides regularly curved and weakly emarginate anteriorly; densely setose at sides with medially convergent pale yellowish setae. Mandibles big, largely protruding beyond apex of labrum; slightly concave laterally and strongly convex towards apex; surface with large, deep punctures bearing long pale yellowish setae like these on labrum. Last maxillary palpomere subtrapezoidal, widened towards slightly obliquely truncated apex. Pronotum transverse (W/L = 1.88), sides subparallel at basal half, smoothly curved towards prominent anterior angles at apical half, finelly margined, margin visible from above except at anterior lateral convexity; anterior border feebly convex medially, convexly curved behind eyes towards anterior angles, finely margined; posterior border unmargined, conspicuosly lobed medially; surface finely microreticulate, sparsely irregularly punctured on disc, punctures denser, stronger and confluent at sides. Hypomeral suture deep, entire, slightly diverging from pronotal border anteriorly, more pronouncedly divergent basally for a short distance; hypomera unpunctured, shagreened. Prosternum coarsely shagreened with strong, deep punctures at basal half near procoxae, with long recumbent white setae; prosternal process narrow, punctured, pubescent. Mesepimera microreticulate, unpunctured. Metepisterna rugosely punctured on all surface. Metaventrite relatively strongly rugosely punctate at basal half; finely, sparsely puntured posteriorly. Scutellum relatively long (W/L = 0.8), microreticulate, unpunctured. Elytra elongated, slightly wider than pronotum basally, with humeral angle regularly curved; sides subparallel towards regularly round apex; elytral surface finely, homogeneously punctured; punctures stronger around and within markings; scutellar and premarginal rows of punctures present; border of elytra finely margined basally, darkened. Markings: (i) sutural stripe complete from scutellar area, surrounding scutellum, gradually narrowing towards elytral apex; (ii) subsutural stripe entirely confluent with sutural stripe, except shortly at blunt basal end, reaching slightly behind apex of scutellum; stripe widened at apical declivity of elytra; (iii) arcuate band entire, defined by surrounding punctures as free feature, but entirely confluent laterally with subsutural stripe by darkened interval; dark interval obliquely directed to subsutural stripe from basal end of arcuate band; apical end of arcuate band as round divergent convolution; (iv) humeral spot and lunule largely confluent as a single compact humeral marking, except briefly basally, showing as small basal emargination; apical end of lunule curved toward suture, ending at short distance before basal end of arcuate band; feature detached from base of elytron; (v) spot of apical declivity roundish, half as big as apex of arcuate band, laterally confluent with preapical enlargement of subsutural stripe; (vi) single small discal spot in lateral declivity of elytra. Femora spindle-shaped, shiny, sparsely punctured, with short appressed golden setae. Tibiae externally canaliculated from half their length; sparsely punctured and pubescent like femora, except apical half ventrally, with dense, thick golden setae. Abdominal ventrites convex, shiny, sparsely punctured, with punctures more abundant and finely pubescent at basal half of each ventrite. Penis figured in Figs 13 g, 13h.

Distribution. The species is a Mexican endemic in the Atlantic plains east from the Sierra Madre Oriental, from the states of Nuevo León and Tamaulipas to Oaxaca and Veracruz ( Fig. 15 , black circles). From a biogeographic perspective, the species is characteristic of the Mexican Transition Zone and the Caribbean Mesoamerican domain.

Material examined (210 specimens).

MEXICO

EGRC: (1) one specimen: Mexico, San Luis de Potosí, Tamazunchale, 24–25.v.1979, coll. E. Riley, Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2011; (2) one specimen: Mexico, Hidalgo, 40 mi NW Jacala, 3000’, Hwy85, 24.vii.1982, C. and L. O’Brien & G. Wibmer; (3) one specimen: Mexico, Hidalgo, 33 mi NE Jacala, 3700’, 27.v.1974, C.W. and L. O’Brien & Marshall; (4) one specimen: Mexico, San Luis de Potosí, Xilitla, 1800 ft, 24.vii.1954, J.G. Chillcott; (5) one specimen: Mexico, San Luis de Potosí, Hwy85, 8 mi N Tamazunchale, 700 ft, 24.vii.1982, C.W. and L. O’Brien & G. Wibmer; (6) one specimen: Mexico, Hidalgo, 4 km N Chapulhuacan 2800 ft, 8.viii.1967, H.R. Burke & J. Hafernik; (7) one specimen: Mexico, San Luis de Potosí, 11.1 km NE Xilitla, 1500 ft, 3.vi.1987, R. Turnbow; (8) one specimen: Mexico, Veracruz, 1 mi E Rinconada, 25.x.1979, J.E. Wappes; (9) one specimen: Mexico, Tamaulipas, Canyon, 5 mi W Cd. Victoria, 3.vi.1984, D. Thomas, B. Ratcliffe, D. Caldwell, T. Taylor & A. Reifschneider, Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2011. FSCA: (1) one specimen: Mexico, San Luis de Potosí, 1 km S Tamazunchale, 3–5.vi.1987, R. Turnbow, Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål det. E.G. Riley ’88; (2) one specimen. Mexico, Veracruz, 3 km SW Puente Nac., 6.vii.1992, M.C. Thomas, Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål det. J. Watts 1993; (3) one specimen: Mexico, Veracruz, Rinconada, SE of Jalapa, 13.viii.1963, F.A. Lee; (4) two specimens: Mexico, Veracruz, Rte. 140, SE Jalapa, 1080 m, trop. evergreen trees, in bromeliads, 18.xii.1978, G.E. & K.E. Ball [one with: Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål det. I.S. Askevold 1990]. MCZ: (1) four specimens: Huachinago, Mexico [one with: Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål ]; (2) one specimen: Paso de Telaya, Jicaltepec, V. Cruz, Mexico, 4/9,96; (3) four specimens: Jicaltepec, V. Cruz, Mex. 3-14-96; (4) five specimens: Sn. Rafael, Jicaltepec, V. Cruz, Mex. [one with: March 13, 96; one with: 3/9/96; three with: March 12, 96]; (5) one specimen: Mexico (Reitter), 225; (6) one specimen: Jalapa, Mexico, Hoege, Callig. aeneopicta ; (7) two specimens: Orizaba, Mex., Mann.; (8) two specimens: Mex. [one with: Chrysomela aeneopicta Stål ]; (9) one specimen: Jalapa, Mex., O.W. Banalt, 6.18-23.98c, O.W.B. Mex 7.15.1898, F.A. Eddy Collection; (10) four specimens: Jalapa, Mexico, Hoege, 1st Jacoby Coll.; (11) one specimen: Jalapa, Vera Cruz, Höge, Jacoby 2nd Coll.; (12) one specimen: Atoyac, Vera Cruz, May, H.H.S., Jacoby 2nd Coll.; (13) five specimens: Orizaba, H.H.S. & F.D.G., Jacoby 2nd Coll.; (14) three specimens: San Rafael, Jicaltepec, V. Cruz, Mex. 3/12, 96; (15) one specimen: Huachinango, Mexico; (16) one specimen: Calligrapha picra Chev. , Mexico, Mex.; (17) one specimen: Mexico, Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2010; (18) one specimen: Mex. ex. Chev. coll.? Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2010. MfN: (1) eight specimens: 29784, aeneopicta Stål , picta Chevr. Dej. amoena, N.A., Mexico, Deppe [seven specimens without data]; (2) two specimens: Jalapa, Mexico, Hoege, 96398 [one with: Callig. aeneopicta ]; (3) three specimens: Mexico, Hoege S., Kotze G.; (4) one specimen: aeneopicta Stahl , Mexico; (5) one specimen: var. Mx. H.; (6) one specimen: sp. ign. Mex; (7) one specimen: Manantial, Veracruz; (8) one specimen: Mexico, Jalapa, aeneopicta Stål ; (9) one specimen: Mexico, Oaxaca; (10) one specimen: Mexico; (11) one specimen: 792, Jalapa; (12) one specimen: Mexico, Puebla; (13) four specimens: Manantial [one with: 792]. NHM: (1) one specimen: Named by Stål, Baly Coll, aeneopicta Stål Mexico, named by Stål, Col: Deyrolle; (2) three specimens: Mexico, 56/55 [two with: 56/143]; (3) one specimen: Mexico; (4) one specimen: Mex., Baly Coll.; (5) one specimen: Truqui, Mexico, Fry Coll. 1905.100; (6) one specimen: Mexico, Fry Coll. 1905.100, Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål Mexico; (7) three specimens: Mexico, Fry Coll. 1905.100 [one with: 23839]; (8) one specimen: Orizaba, H.H.S. & F.D.G. Dec. 1857, Godman-Salvin Coll., Biol. Centr.-Amer.; (9) one specimen: Cordova, Mexico, Sallé Coll., Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål apud Sallé, Godman-Salvin Coll., Biol. Centr.-Amer. [one with: Sp. figured]; (10) two specimens: Toxpam, Mexico, Sallé Coll., 636, Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål apud Sallé, Godman-Salvin Coll., Biol. Centr.-Amer.; (11) one specimen: Orizaba, Mexico, Sallé Coll., Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål apud Sallé, Godman-Salvin Coll., Biol. Centr.-Amer.; (12) five specimens: Jalapa, Mexico, Hoege, Godman-Salvin Coll., Biol. Centr.-Amer.; (13) one specimen: Ex Coll. J. Sturm, Mexico, Guyan. Calligrapha suturalis Mihi , Mexico Sallé Coll., Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål apud Sallé, Godman-Salvin Coll., Biol. Centr.-Amer.; (14) one specimen: 150, Vera Cruz, Mexico, Koebele, R.C.L. Perkins, B.M. 1942-95; (15) one specimen: Mexico, Pascoe Coll. 93-60, Calligrapha aeneopicta . NMB: (1) one specimen: Orizaba, Mex., Dr. A. Fenyes, Erwerb 1955, Coll. Brancsik; (2) one specimen: Mexico 1888, Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål J. Bechyné det. 1951; (3) four specimens: Mexiko. NMCZ: (1) one specimen: Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål Mexique, Coll. Achard Mus. Pragense; (2) two specimens: Mexique, Coll. Achard Mus. Pragense [one with: Calligrapha aeneopicta ]; (3) one specimen: icterica Chevr. Mexiq., Coll. Achard Mus. Pragense; (4) two specimens: Mex., Coll. Achard Mus. Pragense; (5) four specimens: Mexique, Mexico, Coll. Achard Mus. Pragense; (6) one specimen: aeneopicta Mexiq., Coll. Achard Mus. Pragense ; (7) one specimen: Mexico, Coll. Achard Mus. Pragense; (8) three specimens: Mexico, Mus. Pragense Col. Kambersky [one with: Call. aeneopicta , Calligrapha aeneopicta St. J. Achard det.]. NMNH: (1) two specimens: Mexico, F. Monrós Collection 1959 [one with: Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål F. Monrós det. 1954; (2) two specimens: Mexico, Veracruz, 17.vi.1897, R. Hañover, F. Monrós Collection 1959; (3) six specimens: San Rafael, Jicaltepec, Vera Cruz, Mex., 25 June, Townsend [one with: Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål F. Monrós det. 1953]; (4) one specimen: Nogales V.C., Mex. 16.6.0 5, Fredk Knab collector; (5) one specimen: Cordoba, V.C., Mex., Mch. 1.07, Fredk Knab collector; (6) one specimen: Cordoba, Mex., Dec. 20. ’07, Fredk Knab Collector; (7) one specimen: Mexico DF, J.R. Inda Collector; (8) one specimen: on leaf banana from Mex., 17.12.1934, New Orleans #10610, Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål F. Monrós det. 1953; (9) one specimen: Jalapa, Mexico, Hoege; (10) two specimens: Almo, iii; (11) one specimen: Orizaba, V.C., Mex., Jan. 9–16, ’92, H. Osborn Collector; (12) one specimen: Mex., Coll. M.L. Linell; (13) one specimen: Ogumba, Mexico, alt. 8.088 ft, Collection Wm Schaus; (14) one specimen: Mexico, Veracruz, Orizaba, 1 June 1981, W.E. Steiner, Calligrapha aeneopicta (Stål) Det. C.L. Staines 2004 ; (15) one specimen: Mexico, Ver., Huatusco, vii.25.1964, A.B. Lau; (16) one specimen: Ojo de Agua, Sabinas, Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico, Alt. 1000 ft., June 14, 1940, Hoogstraal and Knight, F. Monrós Collection 1959; (17) one specimen: Dos Amates, Veracruz, Mexico, P. Hubbell, 5.1975, Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2011; (18) one specimen: Jalapa, Mex., Wickham Collection 1933; (19) two specimens: Jalapa, mex., vi.1, Smith, Wickham Collection 1933 [one with: Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål J. Gómez-Zurita 2011 ]; (20) one specimen: Mexico, Veracruz, 11.9 mi E Jalapa, 2600’, Rte. 140, iv.9.1966, in bromeliads, George E. Ball & D.R. Whitehead collectors, Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål J. Gómez- Zurita det. 2011; (21) one specimen: Mexico, Veracruz, 22.0 mi E Jalapa, Rte. 140, 1000’, iii.9.66, in bromeliads, George E. Ball & D.R. Whitehead collectors; (22) one specimen: Mexico, Veracruz, 4.7 mi E Jalapa, 3600’, Rte. 140, iv.9.1966, in bromeliads, George E. Ball & D.R. Whitehead collectors; (23) one specimen: Mexico, Veracruz, 6.2 mi NW Jalapa, 5600’, Rte. 140, iv.8.1966, in bromeliads, George E. Ball & D.R. Whitehead collectors. NRM: (1) one specimen: Mexico, Tarnier; (2) two specimens: Mexico, Sallé; (3) one specimen: Mexico, Stål; (4) one specimen: Mexico, aeneopicta Stål. TAMUIC: (1) one specimen: X0532849, Mexico, Veracruz, Paraje Nuevo, vi.1942, Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2011; (2) two specimens: [X0538610 and X0548062], Mexico, Hidalgo, 4 km N Chapulhuacan, 8.viii.1967, Horace R. Burke & J. Hafernik; (3) two specimens: [X0547547 and X0549309], Mexico, Veracruz, 4 mi E Guadalupe, 31.viii.1962, William F. Chamberlain, Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2011. ZSM: (1) one specimen: Mexico, Hoege S. & Kotze G., Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål, Staatssammlung München 1975 Erwerb Coll. Machatschke ; (2) one specimen: Mexico, Oaxaca, Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål, Staatssammlung München 1975 Erwerb Coll. Machatschke.

UNKNOWN SOURCE

MCZ: (1) two specimens: F.C. Bowditch Collection [one with: 924]; (2) one specimen: Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2010; (3) one specimen: 1st Jacoby Coll., Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2010. MfN: (1) one specimen: Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål ; (2) nine specimens: [no data]. NHM: (1) one specimen: 61, Baly Coll.; (2) two specimens: Baly Coll.; (3) three specimens: 67/56; (4) one specimen: C. picta Duf., Baly Coll. ; (5) two specimens: 4852 [one with: C. picta Duf. ]; (6) one specimen: picta , 67- 56; (7) one specimen: E. Coll. Laferté, 67-56; (8) one specimen: E. Coll. Thomson 67-56; (9) one specimen: E. Coll. Thomson, 67-56. NMCZ: (1) five specimens: Coll. Achard Mus. Pragense; (2) one specimen: 125; (3) one specimen: N. Granada, Coll. Nickerl Mus. Pragense. NMNH: (1) one specimen: Gift Ex MCZ Dupl. Series; (2) one specimen: Gift of F.C. Bowditch, Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål F. Monrós det. 1953. OUMNH: (1) one specimen: Named 1898 by M. Jacoby, Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål ; (2) one specimen: Named 1899 by M. Jacoby, Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål ; (3) one specimen: 45, Calligrapha picta . ZSM: (1) one specimen: Coll. Haag, Polyspila aeneopicta Stal, Staatssammlung München 1975 Erwerb Coll. Machatschke.

Variation. This species is quite constant in its shape and elytral simplified patterns, but interestingly, some individuals display minute spots where other species show the typical Calligrapha markings. For instance, some specimens present a very small spot enclosed by humeral lunule near the apex of the latter marking, or more rarely they can show faint traces of the discal spot on external concavity of arcuate band. However, very often, they do not have any trace of spots on the elytra, or have two little markings instead of one as in the type. Thus, the small spot of the lateral declivity of elytra is often lacking and very rarely there may be additional minute spots or traces of them (ground colour becoming paler) on disc. Rarely, some specimens may lack spot on apical declivity of elytra or have it minute and detached from subsutural stripe, but it can be also relatively large and broadly fused laterally to subsutural stripe, small and also fused or, more rarely, free (in three of the specimens I have seen, it is free on one elytron and fused on the other; and in a couple of specimens it is missing altogether in just one elytron).

Figures

FIGURE 12. Dorsal and lateral habitus of the Lectotype of Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål (a), Neotype of C. elegantula Jacoby (b), Lectotype of C. sylvia Stål (c), Lectotype of C. diversa Stål (d), and Holotype of C. simillima Stål (e). Scale bar = 5.0 mm.

FIGURE 13. Penis in ventral, lateral and dorsal view of apex of the species Calligrapha simillima Stål (a, d), C. sylvia Stål (b, e), C. diversa Stål (c, f), C. aeneopicta Stål (g, h), and C. elegantula Jacoby (i, j). Scale bar = 0.5 mm.

FIGURE 15. Geographic distributions of Calligrapha aeneopicta Stål (black circles) and C. simillima Stål (white circles).