Blepharidina carinata (Bryant)

Iannella, Paola D’Alessandro Mattia & Biondi, Maurizio, 2019, Revision of the Afrotropical flea beetle subgenus Blepharidina s. str. Bechyné (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), Zootaxa 4545 (1) : -

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scientific name	Blepharidina carinata (Bryant)
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( Figs 4 View FIGURES 1–10 , 35 View FIGURES 34–37 , 41 View FIGURES 38–43 , 56 View FIGURES 55–67 , 69 View FIGURES 68–69 )

Blepharida carinata Bryant, 1944: 137 ; Ferreira 1965: 941

Blepharidina carinata (Bryant) : Biondi et al. 2017: 129, 142

Type material examined. Lectotype ♂ (Biondi des. in Biondi et al. 2017): “ Angola 76-28, G.E. Bryant ” ( BMNH) . Paralectotypes: same data as lectotype, 1 ♀ ( BMNH). Additional material examined in Appendix 1 .

Taxonomic observations. Blepharidina carinata can be attributed to the species group including B. bimbiensis , B. guttulata , B. partita , B. rudeli , and, probably, B. sedecimguttata ( Figs 2, 4, 6 View FIGURES 1–10 , 16, 19 View FIGURES 11–19 ) (see the paragraph “Taxonomic observations” in B. bimbiensis ). However, it can be easily identified by the: singular color pattern, with black elytral striae and yellowish interstriae ( Fig. 4 View FIGURES 1–10 ); distinctly carinate interstriae ( Fig. 35 View FIGURES 34–37 ). About the aedeagus, B. carinata is very similar to B. partita ( Figs 41 View FIGURES 38–43 , 52 View FIGURES 50–54 ), but it is easily distinguishable by the median lobe more evenly curved laterally in ventral view. The spermatheca is characteristic by the co-presence of a distinctly elongate, hook-shaped distal part and a moderately globose basal part ( Figs 56, 58, 63–64, 67 View FIGURES 55–67 ). Morphometry in Appendix 2.