Heteronychocassis acuticollis, SPAETH, 1915

Simões, Marianna V. P. & Sekerka, Lukáš, 2014, Redescription ofHeteronychocassis acuticollisSpaeth, 1915 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 68 (3), pp. 407-410 : 407

REDESCRIPTION OF HETERONYCHOCASSIS ACUTICOLLIS SPAETH, 1915 ( COLEOPTERA : CHRYSOMELIDAE : CASSIDINAE)

MARIANNA V. P. SIMÕES University of Kansas, Biodiversity Research Institute, 1501 Crestline Drive, Suite #140 Lawrence, KS 66049, U.S.A. [e-mail]

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LUKÁŠ SEKERKA Department of Entomology , National Museum, Golčova 1 CZ-148 00 Prague 4, CZECH REPUBLIC [e-mail]

Spaeth (1915) described the genus Heteronychocassis for a single species, Heteronychocassis acuticollis Spaeth, 1915 . In his view, the genus is the closest relative of Eremionycha Spaeth, 1911 and that both belong to the group Batonotites (= Dorynotini Monrós and Viana 1949).

The genus has never been redescribed, only mentioned in catalogs (e.g., Borowiec 1999; Borowiec and Moragues 2005; Borowiec and Świętojańska 2014) and is only known from its type specimen. The exception is Monrós and Viana (1949), who made a key for the genera of Dorynotini and placed Heteronychocassis in it, based on the primary description. In this note, the species H. acuticollis is redescribed.