Cephaloleia leucoxantha Baly, 1885

Staines, Charles L. & Garcia-Robledo, Carlos, 2014, The genus Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae), ZooKeys 436, pp. 1-355 : 174-175

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Chrysomelidae

Cephaloleia leucoxantha Baly, 1885 Fig. 176

Cephaloleia leucoxantha Baly 1885: 20. Blackwelder 1946: 719 (catalog); Papp 1953: 18 (catalog); Uhmann 1957a: 21 (catalog); Wilcox 1983: 137 (catalog); Staines 1996: 42 (Central America species); Staines and Staines 1999: 524 (Baly species list); McKenna and Farrell 2005: 119 (phylogeny).

Cephalolia leucoxantha Baly. Donckier 1899: 550 (catalog); Weise 1911a: 8 (catalog), 1911b: 10 (catalog).

Description.

Elongate; subparallel; subdepressed; head (except yellow front), antennae, and scutellum black; pronotum yellowish with black triangular medial macula on anterior margin; elytra yellowish, suture darker and black macula at humerus; venter prosternum yellowish, meso- and metasterna yellow medially, black laterally, abdominal sterna 2-5 black medially, yellow laterally; leg femur yellowish; tibia and tarsi darker. Head: vertex impunctate, Y-shaped medial sulcus present; frons not projecting; not depressed between eyes. Antenna: reaches to humerus; slender; antennomere 1 elongate, clavate; 2 elongate; 3 compressed, triangular; 4-10 transverse, each shorter than 3; 11 pointed at apex; 1-3 punctate with scattered setae; 4-11 setose. Pronotum: subquadrate; lateral margin straight then rounding to anterior angle, margined; anterior angle rounded, slightly produced; posterior angle acute; anterior margin straight; disc flattened; surface punctate laterally; basal impression absent; pronotal length 1.3 mm; pronotal width 1.5 mm. Scutellum: triangular; impunctate. Elytron: lateral margin straight, smooth, margined; apex rounded; sutural angle without tooth; humerus rounded, slightly produced; slightly constricted behind humerus; flattened at suture; moderately punctate-striate, punctation obsolete at humerus, punctures confused apically; weak declivity beginning just behind humerus at puncture row 7 not edged with faint carina; elytral length 5.0 mm; elytral width 2.0 mm. Venter: pro-, meso-, and metasterna impunctate medially, punctate laterally; abdominal sterna punctate, each puncture with pale seta; suture between sterna 1 and 2 complete. Leg: slender; femur punctate; tibia with fringe of setae on inner margin of apex. Total length: 6.7 mm.

Diagnosis.

This species is similar to Cephaloleia instabilis . It can be distinguished by by only antennomere 3 being triangular.

Distribution.

Panama.

Type material examined.

Holotype: V. de Chiriqui 25-4000 ft. Champion [printed label]/ B. C. A, Col. VI, 2. Cephaloleia leucoxantha Baly [printed label]/ Cephaloleia leucoxantha Baly Panama [blue handwritten label] (BMNH).

Specimens examined.

PANAMA: Chiriquí- 11.2 mi S Chiriqui, 2 June 1994 (CDFA). Total: 1.