Canobolas jarrah Reid, Jurado-Rivera & Beatson

Reid, Chris A. M., Jurado-Rivera, José A. & Beatson, Max, 2009, A new genus of Chrysomelinae from Australia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), Zootaxa 2207, pp. 53-66 : 57

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.189744
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6214691
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/011387B4-FF85-AC09-FF4B-FD6BC3E70C63
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Canobolas jarrah Reid, Jurado-Rivera & Beatson
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Canobolas jarrah Reid, Jurado-Rivera & Beatson , sp. nov.

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Material examined. Holotype: 3/ Bridgetown WA Lea/ Cyclonoda pilula Clark W Australia / ( SAM); paratype (1): Ƥ, same data as holotype ( SAM).

Description. Length: male 4mm; female 4.5mm. Shape: body short-ovate and strongly arched, length 1.1–1.25x width, length 1.8–2.1x height. Colour: body black, with faint greenish hue, appendages dark reddish-brown. Dorsal surfaces relatively dull, microreticulate throughout, reticulations coarse on elytra.

Head: frontoclypeus with large close punctures, frontoclypeal suture weak, base of clypeal area feebly depressed; antennae c. 0.5x (male) or c. 0.3x (female) body length; all antennomeres elongate, 9–10 length 1.3–1.5x width.

Thorax: pronotum closely and evenly punctured, intervals 1– 3 x puncture diameters; hypomeron entirely deeply transversely wrinkled; elytral striae 1–9 complete, 2–8 (female) or 2–9 (male) feebly impressed; punctures of striae 1–8 close, separated by 0.5–2 puncture diameters; punctures of basal half stria 3 separated by 1–2 diameters; apical strial punctures not enlarged; interstrial punctures minute and obscured by microreticulation; apices of elytra with elongate acute apical tooth; metaventrite femoral plate triangular with posterior margin almost straight.

Abdomen: ventrites shining, microreticulate but weakly so, especially ventrite V; ventrites moderately strongly and closely punctured, with short recumbent setae; first ventrite with triangular femoral plate, half length of ventrite at this point; penis curved and evenly narrowed to apex in lateral view, with slightly angulate apex in dorsal view, flagellum present, but not visible laterally or dorsally, hidden by apical folds of endophallus; female sternite 8 with short apically forked spiculum; second segment vaginal palpi elongatecylindrical; spermatheca falcate, with rounded tip.

Distribution. Only known from the type locality, Bridgetown, south-western Western Australia. This locality is in the heart of the jarrah forests of Western Australia. On 24th November 2006 JAJR collected chrysomelines by grasstufting in this area, but failed to find Canobolas jarrah .

Etymology. Named after the forest tree jarrah ( Eucalyptus marginata ), from the local Noongar language ( Abbott 1983), a noun in apposition.

Notes. The two specimens were carded together and have been remounted separately. They were misidentified as Cyclonoda pilula by Lea (see Systematics above for discussion of this genus).