Oxychalepus anchora (Chapuis, 1877)

Sekerka, Lukáš, 2020, Commented catalogue of Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, with remarks on the collection of Jaro Mráz in the National Museum in Prague, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 60 (2), pp. 667-707 : 681

Oxychalepus anchora (Chapuis, 1877)

Published records. Jabaquara; 10 mi W of Sorocaba (Sඍൺංඇൾඌ 2010).

Distribution. Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil (Bahia, Distrito Federal, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rondônia, São Paulo), Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.

Remarks. Rൺආඈඌ (1998) revised the Brazilian species of Oxylepus and excluded O. anchora from the fauna of Brazil as the records published earlier belonged to O. externus . Oxychalepus anchora is a species very common and widespread in Central America and NE portion of South America but the records from the southern part of South America are dubious and must be verified. In general, species of Oxychalepus Uhmann, 1937 are quite difficult to identify due to their morphological similarity and strong polymorphism.

Sඍൺංඇൾඌ (2010) published a revision of the entire genus which, however, contains numerous mistakes and misidentifications, and many specimens fall under several different species using the key he proposed; therefore, a great part of the records must be considered with caution. In the same revision, O. anchora was published from two localities in São Paulo.