Cephaloleia aequilata Uhmann, 1930a

Staines, Charles L. & Garcia-Robledo, Carlos, 2014, The genus Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae), ZooKeys 436, pp. 1-355 : 53-54

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

publication LSID

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scientific name

Cephaloleia aequilata Uhmann, 1930a
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Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Chrysomelidae

Cephaloleia aequilata Uhmann, 1930a View in CoL Fig. 66

Cephalolia aequilata Uhmann 1930a: 223. Uhmann 1942: 96 (noted).

Cephaloleia aequilata Uhmann. Blackwelder 1946: 718 (catalog); Uhmann 1950b: 336 (type); Papp 1953: 13 (catalog); Uhmann 1957a: 15 (catalog); Gaedike and Döbler 1971: 342 (types); Wilcox 1983: 136 (catalog); Staines 1996: 15 (Central America species), 1997: 413 (noted), 2011: 48 (faunal list); Staines and Staines 1997: 2 (types); McKenna and Farrell 2005: 119 (phylogeny), 2006: 10949 (phylogeny).

Description.

Small, almost rectangular in outline, depressed; reddish-brown; antennomeres 1-5 reddish, 6-10 black, 11 reddish. Head: vertex finely punctate; eyes dark; frons projecting; not depressed between eyes. Antenna: reaches to humerus; slender; antennomeres 1-2 elongate, subequal in length; 3 not compressed or widened, subequal in length to 1 or 2; 4-6 subequal in length, each shorter than 3; 7-10 transverse, subequal in length, each shorter than 6; 11 2 × length of 10, oval; 1-6 punctate with scattered setae; 7-11 setose. Pronotum: twice as wide as long; lateral margin straight basally, rounding to anterior angle, margined; anterior angle rounded, slightly produced; posterior angle acute; anterior margin emarginate behind head; disc with surface sparsely, finely, irregularly punctate; irregularly, coarsely punctate laterally; basal impression absent; pronotal length 0.7-0.9 mm; pronotal width 1.4-1.7 mm. Scutellum: elongate pentagonal; impunctate. Elytron: lateral margin straight, smooth, margined; apex rounded; sutural angle without tooth; weakly expanded at humerus; slightly constricted behind humerus; moderately punctate-striate, rows 6-9 obscure on humerus; elytral length 3.4-4.3 mm; elytral width 2.0 mm. Venter: episternum punctate; epipleuron finely punctate, setose; pro-, meso, and metasterna punctate; abdominal sterna punctate, each puncture with pale seta; suture between sterna 1 and 2 complete; last sternite with apical margin semicircular, deeply emarginate medially in male, truncate in female. Leg: punctate; tibia with fringe of setae on inner margin of apex. Total length: 4.3-5.6 mm.

Diagnosis.

This species is one of the reddish-brown to yellow, nearly rectangular species, which includes Cephaloleia cognata and Cephaloleia dilaticollis . It can be easily distinguished from the other two species by the elytral puncture rows 6 to 9 being obsolete on the humerus.

Distribution.

Costa Rica, Guatemala.

Type material examined.

Syntype: Costa Rica, Hamburg Farm, Reventazon [green printed label]/ Ebene Limon, XII.1923, Nevermann [reversed green label]/ type [printed red label]/ Cephalilia aequaliata ♀ Uhmann 28 (DEI, 1).

Specimens examined.

COSTA RICA: Cartago- Turrialba (USNM). Guanacaste- Est. Cacao, 1000-1400 m, Lado suroeste de Volcán Cacao, June 1990 (INBIO); Est. Pitilla, 700 m, 8 km S Sta. Cecilia, 3-18 October 1991, 4-25 November 1991, December 1989, March 1990, January-April 1992 (INBIO); Río San Lorenzo, 1050 m, Tierras Morenas, Z. P. Tenorio, August 1992 (INBIO); Liberia, Mayorga, Estación Cacao, 2 km SW Cerro Cacao, 900-1000 m (INBIO); Río San Lorenzo, Tierras Morenas, 900-100 m (INBIO). Limón- Río Reventazón near Siquirres, 14 March 1991 (EGRC); Talamanca, Amubri, 0-100 m (INBIO). GUATEMALA: Zacapa- 3.5 km SE La Unión, 1500 m, 27 June 1993 (SEMC). Total: 29.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Genus

Cephaloleia