Platyphora batesei ( Baly, 1858 )

Sampaio, Aline & Fonseca, Claudio Ruy Vasconcelos Da, 2023, Catalog of the Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) deposited in the entomological collections of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) and the Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Brazil, with an illustrated key for the genera occurring in Brazil (except Aeneolucentia,, Zootaxa 5351 (1), pp. 37-71 : 52

Platyphora batesei ( Baly, 1858)

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Doryphora batesei Baly, 1858: 343 (descr., distr.), plate 27, fig. 3 (dorsal view, adult).

Chrysomela batesei ; Stål, 1862: 40 (distr. redescr.).

Doryphora batesi ; Gemminger & Harold, 1874: 3446 (cat., distr.); Jacoby, 1880: 596 (cit.); Blackwelder, 1946: 668 (cat., distr.).

Doryphora (Doryphora) batesi ; Wiese, 1916: 12 (cat., distr.).

Doryphorella batesi ; Achard, 1923c: 124 (cit., distr., tax.).

Stichotaenia batesi ; Bechyně, 1952: 46 (cat., distr.).

Platyphora batesei ; Pasteéls et al. 2004: 671 (distr., host); Jolivet & Verma, 2005: 115 (distr.), fig. 14.11 (dorsal view, adult); Sekerka, 2023 (check.).

Platyphora batesii ; Chaboo & Flowers, 2015: 381 (check.).

Doryphorella batesi var. basilea Achard, 1923c: 124 (descr., distr.). syn. nov.

Doryphora batesi var. basilea ; Blackwelder, 1946: 668 (cat., distr.).

Stichotaenia batesi ab. basilea; Bechyně, 1952: 46 (cat., distr.).

Type locality: Brazil — Upper Amazon : Amazonas: Ega (Tefé) .

Distribution: BRAZIL — Amazonas: Benjamin Constant (Nova Aliança). COLOMBIA. ECUADOR — Pastaza: Puyo. PERU — Loreto: Iquitos and Yurimaguas.

Host plant: Apocynaceae Juss. (Ex Asclepiadaceae Turcz. )— Pasteéls et al. (2004).

Material examined (2 specimens): BRAZIL. Amazonas : Benjamin Constant (Nova Aliança), 1 specimen, IV. 2004, F. F. Xavier leg. ( INPA). No data: 1 specimen ( INPA) .

Figures

FIGURES 67–78. 67, Platyphora alvarengai, dorsal view; 68, Platyphora angulata, dorsal view; 69, Platyphora arcuata, dorsal view; 70, Platyphora batesei, dorsal view; 71, Platyphora cinctella, dorsal view; 72, Platyphora concentrica, dorsal view; 73, Platyphora dejeanii, dorsal view; 74, Platyphora gratiosa, dorsal view; 75, Platyphora imperialis, dorsal view; 76–78, holotype of Platyphora imperialis, 76, dorsal view, 77, ventral view, 78, lateral view. Scale bar: 1 mm. Figs. 76–78 (Scale bar: 3 mm) photographed by Anna Jerve (© 2023 Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet). Original photos cropped and background removed. Made available by the Swedish Museumof Natural History under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License, CC- BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.