Calliaspis umbonata Hincks, 1956

Albertoni, Fabiano F., 2017, Morphology and natural history of two species of bromeliad leaf beetles in the genus Calliaspis Dejean, 1836 from Southern Brazil, with a summary of the current knowledge of Imatidiini immatures (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae), Zootaxa 4312 (1), pp. 113-142 : 115

Calliaspis umbonata Hincks, 1956

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FIGURES 1 – 8. Calliaspis umbonata Hincks, 1956, mature larva, pupa and adult. (1 – 2, 7) Mature larva, dorsal and ventral habitus, and detail of anterior ventral size of thorax, abdomen and head; (3 – 4) pupa, dorsal and ventral habitus; (5 – 6, 8) adult, dorsal, ventral and lateral habitus.

FIGURES 9 – 15. Calliaspis umbonata Hincks, 1956, mature larva. (9, 10) Dorsal and ventral habitus; (11) second and third antennomere, ventral view; (12, 13) antenna, ventral and dorsal view; (14, 15) head, dorsal and ventral view.

FIGURES 16 – 25. Calliaspis umbonata Hincks, 1956 mature larva. (16) Clypeus and labrum; (17) epipharynx; (18, 19) lateral outlines of labrum and epipharynx in frontal view; (20) scale-like projections of epipharynx; (21) maxilla and labium, ventral view; (22) maxilla and hypopharynx, dorsal view; (23, 24, 25) mandible: (23) dorso-external view; (24) ventro-internal view; (25) external view.

FIGURES 26 – 28. Calliaspis umbonata Hincks, 1956 mature larva. (26) mesothoracic leg; (27) distal part of femur, tibia and tarsungulus of anterior leg; (28) spiracle.

FIGURES 29 – 32. Calliaspis umbonata Hincks, 1956 mature larva. (29) detail of wart-like structures in the integument of abdominal segments; (30) wart-like structures distributed along the intersegmental line; (31) dorsal integument with chitinized lateral membrane fringe; (32) chitinized border of integument with few setae.

FIGURES 33 – 34. Calliaspis umbonata Hincks, 1956, pupa. (33, 34) Dorsal and ventral habitus, respectively.

FIGURES 35 – 46. Calliaspis umbonata Hincks, 1956 eggs and mature larva. (35) egg on a bromeliad leaf; (36) surface integument of egg case; (37) larva, lateral view; (38) chitinized lateral membrane fringe of integument; (39, 40) larva on bromeliad leaf, note the whitish spots on the larval body suggesting camouflage on the leaf surface, frontal and backlighting respectively; (41) larva crawling on a glass with a water blade, note the reddish anterior region of the body and air plastron on the region of ventral spiracle; (42) larva feeding on tough leaf tissue; (43) dead parasitized larva; (44, 45, 46) larval turning over behaviour and mobility.

FIGURES 47 – 50. Calliaspis umbonata Hincks, 1956 pupa and adult. (47) pupa inside the last larval exuvia, attached to a bromeliad leaf; (48) pupa partially detached from the leaf, partially covered by ventral part of larval exuvia; (49) leaf damage caused by adult feeding (50) adult resting on the red apex of a Wittrockia superba leaf (Bromeliaceae).