Cephaloleia presignis Staines, 1996

Staines, Charles L. & Garcia-Robledo, Carlos, 2014, The genus Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae), ZooKeys 436, pp. 1-355 : 216-217

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.436.5766

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4AE52FD6-8CF9-48DC-AA79-C15AD75FF7F1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1BB9D191-9760-2BB7-1FC1-65693F70007F

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scientific name

Cephaloleia presignis Staines, 1996
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Chrysomelidae

Cephaloleia presignis Staines, 1996 View in CoL Fig. 213

Cephaloleia presignis Staines 1996: 51. Arreguin–Espinosa et al. 2000: 239 (biochemistry).

Description.

Elongate; subparallel; subdepressed; head (except yellow frons), antennae (except yellow basal antennomere), and scutellum black; pronotum yellowish with dark medial longitudinal macula on anterior margin; elytra black with yellow vitta; venter with pro-, meso-, and metasterna yellow medially, black laterally; abdominal sterna yellow; leg with femur yellow, darker at apex; tibia dark at base and apex, rest yellow; tarsi dark. Head: vertex sparsely punctate, medial sulcus absent; frons not projecting; slightly depressed between eyes Antenna: reaches to humerus; robust; antennomere 1 elongate, compressed laterally; 2-4 transverse, triangular; 5-10 transverse, subequal in length, each shorter than 4; 11 slightly longer than 10, rounded at apex; 1-2 punctate with scattered setae; 3-11 setose. Pronotum: lateral margin straight then rounding to anterior angle, margined; anterior angle oblique, slightly produced; posterior angle rounded, slightly produced; anterior margin emarginate behind head; disc subconvex; surface impunctate; basal impression absent; pronotal length 1.1 mm; pronotal width 1.6 mm. Scutellum: triangular; micropunctate. Elytron: lateral margin straight, smooth, margined; apex rounded; sutural angle without tooth; humerus rounded, not produced; slightly constricted behind humerus; shallowly punctate-striate, punctures obsolete apically; elytral length 4.9 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 complete; last sternite with apical margin bisinuate in male. Leg: slender; impunctate; tibia expanded to apex, with fringe of setae on inner margin of apex. Total length: 6.4 mm.

Diagnosis.

This species is similar to Cephaloleia ornatrix and Cephaloleia separata . It can be distinguished by the elytral puncture rows being nearly obsolete apically and by antennomere 1 being shorter than 2 to 4 combined.

Distribution.

Mexico.

Type material examined.

Holotype male: Jalapa Mexico/ Zool. Mus. Berlin/ Cephaloleia n. sp male, E. Uhmann Det 34/ Holotype Cephaloleia presignis Staines, Des. C. L. Staines 1993 [red label] (ZMHB).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Genus

Cephaloleia