Cephaloleia opaca Baly, 1859

Sekerka, Lukáš, 2017, Taxonomic changes within Imatidiini and Hybosispini (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 57 (2), pp. 351-380 : 361-362

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https://doi.org/ 10.1515/aemnp-2017-0081

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scientific name

Cephaloleia opaca Baly, 1859
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Cephaloleia opaca Baly, 1859 View in CoL

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Cephaloleia opaca Baly, 1859: 62 View in CoL (original description). UHMANN (1968):125 (partim, material from Santa Catarina); STAINES & GARCÍA- ROBLEDO (2014): 239 (partim, material from Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina).

Type locality. ‘Brazilʼ.

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE: pinned, ‘Type | H. T. [w, p, s, circle label with red frame] || Baly Coll. [w, p, cb] || Cephaloleia | opaca | Baly | Brazil [g, hw by Baly, cb]’ ( BMNH).

Additional material examined. BRAZIL: RIO DE JANEIRO: Rio de Janeiro , 1883, 1 spec., P. Germain lgt. ( USNM), 1945, 1 spec., Dr. Nick lgt. ( USNM) ; Trinidad near Parati , 2.–10.xii.2000, 2 spec., A. Kudrna jr. lgt. ( LSPC) . SANTA CATARINA: Blumenau , 1 spec. ( USNM) ; Corupá ([formely] Hansa Humboldt ), i.1947, 2 spec. ( USNM, LSPC) .

Remarks. BALY (1859) described C. opaca explicitly from a single specimen. UHMANN (1968) and STAINES & GARCÍA- ROBLEDO (2014) published additional records from Bahia,

Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, Peru and Venezuela. The material from Bahia belongs to C. fernandoi (see further Remarks under that species). Records from Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina belong to C. opaca and the material from Santa Catarina represents the dark form mentioned by UHMANN (1968). Specimens from Venezuela belong to Pseudostilpnaspis cf. curvipes (Uhmann, 1951). I did not examine the material from Peru but I question this record as C. opaca seems to be restricted to lowlands along the Brazilian Atlantic coast. Therefore I do not include Peru and Venezuela in distribution of C. opaca .

The material belonging to C. opaca published by STAINES & GARCÍA- ROBLEDO (2014) is repeated here as the authors did not state number of specimens, collectors, etc. The specimen from Blumenau was published as the record from Brazil without further data. The specimen collected by P. Germain was figured (STAINES & GARCÍA- ROBLEDO 2014: Fig. 200).

Distribution. Brazil: Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina ( UHMANN 1968, STAINES & GARCÍA- ROBLEDO 2014, present paper).

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Genus

Cephaloleia

Loc

Cephaloleia opaca Baly, 1859

Sekerka, Lukáš 2017
2017
Loc

Cephaloleia opaca

UHMANN E. 1968: 125
BALY J. S. 1859: 62
1859
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