Alurnus boucardi Rosenberg 1898

Staines, C. L., 2013, A review of the genus Alurnus Fabricius, 1775 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae), Insecta Mundi 2013 (291), pp. 1-34 : 8-9

Alurnus boucardi Rosenberg 1898

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Alurnus boucardi Rosenberg 1898: 94 [holotype: Colombia / F. C. Bowditch Coll./ M.C.Z. type 25813 (red label)/ A. boucardi Rosenberg type (MCZC)]. Donckier 1899: 613 (catalog); Jacobson 1899(1900): x (noted); Weise 1910: 103 (key), 1911a: 13 (catalog), 1911b: 20 (catalog); Fischer 1935: 276 (revision); Blackwelder 1946: 721 (faunal list); Papp 1953: 31 (catalog); Uhmann 1957a: 37 (catalog).

Alurnus boulardi Rosenberg. Haitlinger 1989: 286 (lapsus calami, mites); Santiago and Fain 1994: 410 (mites).

Description. Head, pronotum, legs, scutellum, and venter black; elytra yellow, with large irregularly shaped black spot present behind middle. Head: vertex without sulcus, slightly depressed between eyes; surface rugosely punctate in front. Antenna: antennomere 1 cylindrical, thick; 2 shorter than 1; 3 more than 2.5x length of 1 and 2 combined; 4-10 decreasing in length; 11 longer than 10, rounded at apex; punctate, each puncture with pale seta. Pronotum: lateral margin bisinuate; anterior angle obtuse; posterior angle acute; basal half slightly depressed laterally; rugosely punctate basally, punctate apically; subtuberculate laterally; glabrous; pronotal length 4 mm; pronotal width 5-6 mm. Scutellum: cordate; densely punctate. Elytra: lateral and apical margins smooth, slightly explanate; sutural angle with small tooth; humerus produced, rounded; surface coarsely punctate, becoming more finely punctate toward apex; faint costa present from humerus to just beyond middle, curving toward suture; elytral width 12-14 mm; elytral length 24-27 mm. Leg: sparsely punctate, each puncture with pale seta; base of tibia with fringe of pale setae on inner margin; tarsal setae light brown. Venter: pro-, meso-, and metasterna punctate, each puncture with pale seta; abdominal sterna 1 and 5 punctate, each puncture with pale seta; sterna 2-4 impunctate basally, with row of punctures with pale seta apically. Total length: 30-33 mm.

Larval host plant. Unknown.

Distribution. Colombia, Panama.

Specimens examined. no data ( BMNH, 1) Colombia. No data ( USNM, 3; FMNH, 1; AMNH, 1; BMNH, 2; MCZC, 4). Antioquia: N. Granade ( USNM, 1; BMNH, 1) ; Rio Opón , 20.xii.1947 ( AMNH, 1) ; Alto Rio Opón, 900 m, 16.vi.1948 ( AMNH, 1). Cauca: Rio Dagua ( PSUC, 1). Vaupes: Rio Mitú ( PSUC, 1). Boyaca: vii.1936 ( USNM, 1). Panama. Darien: no further data ( BMNH, 1). Panama: Serro Campana, 750 m, 18.vi.1996 ( HPSC, 1). Total: 21 .