Chaeridiona metallica Baly

Staines, C. L., 2007, A review of the genus Chaeridiona Baly, 1869 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae), Zootaxa 1521 (1), pp. 19-29 : 23-24

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1521.1.3

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5088400

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Chaeridiona metallica Baly
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Chaeridiona metallica Baly View in CoL

Figure 4 View FIGURE 4–5. 4

Chaeridiona metallica Baly 1869: 381 View in CoL [Holotype: Type H. T. (white disk with red border)/ Baly coll./ Chaeridiona metallica Baly View in CoL , India (pale blue card) (BMNH)]. Kalshoven 1957: 11 (host plants); Uhmann 1958: 252 (catalog); Würmli 1976: 403 (revision); Santiago-Blay 2004: 57 (host plants).

Choeridiona metallica Baly. Donckier 1899: 571 (catalog); Weise 1908: 214 (faunal list), 1911a: 49, 1911b: 73 (catalog); Maulik 1919: 85 ( India species), 1937: 148 (host plants).

Wedge-shaped; convex; pronotum and elytra metallic green in middle, purplish-red laterally; venter and apical four antennomeres black; coxae and basal 2 antennomeres dark brown; antennomeres III–VII lighter brown; legs and apex of elytra light brown. Head: deeply, coarsely punctate; eye encircled with carina; front produced anteriorly with angular projection, the apex extends downward into a longitudinal carina ending at base of clypeus. Antenna: antennomere I thick, rounded; II smaller; III longer than II; IV–VII decreasing in length; VIII–XI expanding in length and width. Pronotum: subcylindrical; scarcely longer than wide; lateral margin subparallel, bisinuate; anterior angle notched, bidentate; surface deeply, coarsely punctate, rugose; pronotal width 0.9–1.0 mm; pronotal length 1.0 mm. Scutellum: elongate; depressed; smooth; narrowing apically; rounded at apex; purplish–red. Elytron: combined much wider than base of pronotum; lateral margin serrate, narrowly margined; expanded apically; exterior apical angle rounded, without tooth; humerus prominent, raised; with four costae- 1 st and 4 th entire, extending nearly to apex, 2 nd interrupted behind middle, 3 rd interrupted in middle and near apex; depression present on interspace 6 near middle; interspace 7 slightly raised in middle; suture raised; with 10 puncture rows, punctures quadrate, in double rows, deep, coarse; elytral width 1.7 mm; elytral length 2.9–3.0 mm. Venter: prosternum coarsely punctate; remainder smooth, shining. Total length: 4.9–5.0 mm.

Comparative notes. This species can be distinguished from all other Chaeridiona by having two teeth in the anterior angle of the pronotum, by having elytral costa 2 interrupted, and by having the exterior apical angle of the elytra rounded and with a tooth.

Food plants. Curcuma (Zingiberaceae) ( Maulik 1937).

Distribution. India: Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu.

Specimens examined. India: no further data ( BMNH, 2); Centr . India, Satpura Hills, Pachmarhi, IX.70, 3500 ft., Nathan ( NHMB, 1); Maharashtra, Pune Distr. , Lonavla Bhusi Dam , 25.IX.2005 ( UWCP, 23), 27.IX.2005 ( UWCP, 1), 28.IX.2005 ( UWCP, 18). Total: 45 .

NHMB

Natural History Museum Bucharest

UWCP

University of Wroclaw

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Genus

Chaeridiona

Loc

Chaeridiona metallica Baly

Staines, C. L. 2007
2007
Loc

Choeridiona metallica Baly. Donckier 1899: 571

Maulik, S. 1919: 85
Weise, J. 1908: 214
Donckier de Donceel, H. 1899: 571
1899
Loc

Chaeridiona metallica

Santiago-Blay, J. A. 2004: 57
Wurmli, M. 1976: 403
Uhmann, E. 1958: 252
Kalshoven, L. G. E. 1957: 11
Baly, J. S. 1869: 381
1869
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