Cephaloleia balyi Duvivier, 1890

Staines, Charles L. & Garcia-Robledo, Carlos, 2014, The genus Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae), ZooKeys 436, pp. 1-355 : 69-70

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.436.5766

publication LSID

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scientific name

Cephaloleia balyi Duvivier, 1890
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Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Chrysomelidae

Cephaloleia balyi Duvivier, 1890 View in CoL Fig. 81

Cephalolia balyi Duvivier 1890: xxxviii. Donckier 1899: 548 (catalog); Weise 1911a: 7 (catalog), 1911b: 12 (catalog).

Cephaloleia balyi Duvivier. Uhmann 1957b: 16 (catalog), 1959c: 621 (noted), 1964a: 402 (catalog).

Description.

Oval; subdepressed; shining; testaceous; legs yellow, darker at tibio-femoral joint; antennomeres 1-2 black, 3-11 brown; head, meso-, and metasterna black; pronotum brownish-black; scutellum testaceous; elytra yellowish with black vitta from scutellum extending down suture ⅔ length of elytra; venter testaceous, abdominal sternite 1 darker. Head: vertex strongly, densely punctate, without medial sulcus; projection present between antennal bases; frons not projecting; depressed between eyes. Antenna: slightly longer than head and pronotum combined; slender; antennomeres 1-2 robust, cylindrical; 3-4 cylindrical, subequal in length, each shorter than 2; 5-10 transverse, decreasing in length, each shorter than 4; 11 longer than 10, acutely pointed at apex; 1-2 strongly punctate with scattered setae; 3-11 setose. Pronotum: transverse; lateral margin straight then rounding to anterior angle, slightly canaliculate; anterior angle obtuse, slightly produced; posterior angle acute; anterior margin emarginate behind head; disc subconvex; with smooth longitudinal band medially; surface irregularly punctate, less punctate laterally; basal impression absent; pronotal length 1.2-1.4 mm; pronotal width 1.5-1.7 mm. Scutellum: pentagonal; impunctate. Elytron: lateral margin straight, smooth, slightly laminate; apex rounded; sutural angle without tooth; humerus rounded, not produced; slightly constricted behind humerus; shallowly punctate-striate; elytral length 3.7-4.1 mm; elytral width 2.1-2.5 mm. Venter: pro- and mesosterna densely punctate; metasternum impunctate medially, punctate laterally; abdominal sterna punctate, each puncture with pale seta; suture between sterna 1 and 2 complete; apical margin of last sternite emarginate medially in male, rounded in female. Leg: short; robust; punctate, each puncture with pale seta; tibia with fringe of setae on inner margin of apex. Total length: 5.3-5.6 mm.

Diagnosis.

This species is similar to Cephaloleia deficiens , Cephaloleia discoidalis , Cephaloleia dorsalis , Cephaloleia linkei , and Cephaloleia suturalis . It can be distinguished by the dark pronotum and by antennomeres 1 and 2 being robust.

Distribution.

Ecuador.

Type material.

Type: America Meridional, ISNB, not seen.

Specimens examined.

Ecuador: Bolivar- Guaranda-Caluma Hwy., Río Pita, 1289 m, 1 November 2008 (USNM). Pichincha- Chimba, 1891 (USNM). Total: 4.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Genus

Cephaloleia