Estigmena bicolor Bhasin, 1950 : 133

Faisal, Mohammad & Singh, Sudhir, 2018, Type specimens of Chrysomelidae and Megalopodidae (Coleoptera) in the National Forest Insect Collection (NFIC), Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, India, Zootaxa 4420 (4), pp. 509-529 : 513

Estigmena bicolor Bhasin, 1950: 133 .

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In NFIC there is one holotype and a paratype. Holotype with five labels. Label 1: White label with printed collection locality (INDIA: Assam), 'Cachar, Halflong; 15.v.1925; CFC Beeson'. Label 2: white blank label with glue mark, perhaps specimen was earlier glued to the card. Label 3: White label stating ' Estigmena ?duhartyiutm (not clearly legible), G. E. Bryant det'. Label 4: white label stating 'Holotype, Estigmena bicolor Bhasin' (hand written). Label 5: Red label printed 'Type'.

Paratype: 1 female; INDIA: Assam, Lakhimpur Distt, Jeypore Res. Forest ; 12. v. 1938; NC Chatterjee.

Remarks: Holotype, both the antennae broken and each with five basal segments, broken parts missing; right hind leg missing, left hind leg with one tarsomere rest missing. Species was described on the basis of two specimens, both of which are present in the NFIC. Staines (2015) mentioned ' depository unknown'.

Figures

FIGURES 8–10. Types of Chrysomelidae deposited in NFIC. 8, Estigmena bicolor, Type. 9, Callispa almora, Cotype. 10, Downesia sasthi, Cotype.