Cephaloleia fryella Baly, 1858

Staines, Charles L. & Garcia-Robledo, Carlos, 2014, The genus Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae), ZooKeys 436, pp. 1-355 : 145-146

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Chrysomelidae

Cephaloleia fryella Baly, 1858 Fig. 146

Cephalolia fryella Baly 1858: 62. Gemminger and Harold 1876: 3601 (catalog); Donckier 1899: 549 (catalog); Weise 1911a: 8 (catalog), 1911b: 11 (catalog).

Cephaloleia fryella Baly. Uhmann 1957b: 19 (catalog); Staines and Staines 1999: 524 (Baly species list).

Description.

Oblong-elongate; subparallel; moderately convex; dull yellow, head, antennae, and scutellum black; elytra yellowish with black hourglass-shaped macula along suture from base to apical ¼; venter black, abdominal sterna yellowish laterally; legs yellow, tarsi darker. Head: vertex punctate, medial sulcus present; frons not projecting; not depressed between eyes. Antenna: reaches to humerus; slender; antennomere 1 incrassate, elongate, 2 × length 2; 2-10 transverse, subequal in length; 11 2 × length 10, broadly rounded at apex; 1-3 punctate with scattered setae; 4-11 setose. Pronotum: transverse; lateral margin straight then rounding to anterior angle, narrowly margined; anterior angle rounded, slightly produced; posterior angle acute; anterior margin emarginate behind head; disc subconvex; surface sparsely, coarsely punctate; basal impression absent; pronotal length 1.0 mm; pronotal width 1.3 mm. Scutellum: elongate pentagonal; impunctate. Elytron: lateral margin straight, smooth, narrowly margined; apex rounded; sutural angle without tooth; humerus rounded, not produced; slightly constricted behind humerus; slightly flattened on disc; moderately punctate-striate, rows converge and unite apically; interspaces flattened; elytral length 3.4 mm; elytral width 1.9 mm. Venter: pro-, meso-, and metasterna impunctate; abdominal sterna punctate, each puncture with pale seta; suture between sterna 1 and 2 complete; last sternite with apical margin truncate in female. Leg: slender; impunctate; tibia with fringe of setae on inner margin of apex. Total length: 4.5 mm.

Diagnosis.

This species is similar to Cephaloleia lydiae . It can be distinguished by the vertex of the head having a medial sulcus and by the straight lateral margins of the pronotum.

Distribution.

Brazil.

Type material examined.

Holotype: Brazil [handwritten label]/ Fry coll. [printed label]/ Cephalolia fryella Baly, Brazil [blue handwritten label] (BMNH).