Platyphora alvarengai ( Bechyně, 1954 )

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 : 49

Platyphora alvarengai ( Bechyně, 1954)

( Fig. 67 )

Stichotaenia alvarengai Bechyně, 1954: 634 (descr., distr.), tafel 28, fig. 2 (dorsal view, adult); Marinoni et al. 1992: 114 (check., distr.). Platyphora alvarengai ; Sekerka, 2023 (check.).

Type locality: Brazil — Amazonas (Rio Negro) .

Distribution: BRAZIL —Amazonas: Novo Air„o (Rio Negro/Boca: Jacaré) and S„o Gabriel da Cachoeira (Rio Uaupés, Taracuá).

Material examined (4 specimens): BRAZIL. Amazonas: Novo Airão (Rio Negro/Boca: Jacaré), 1 specimen, 18–19. XI. 1995, C. Motta & Freire legs. ( INPA); São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Rio Uaupés, Taracuá), 3 specimens, 1967, [without collector]. ( 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.