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03CF879C10025648FCF25B56B605C1D9.text	03CF879C10025648FCF25B56B605C1D9.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Caryonoda funebris Gómez-Zurita & Maes 2022	<div><p>Caryonoda funebris n. sp.</p><p>(Figs. 1c, 2a, 3k)</p><p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 0D19627C-5026-49BA-A9ED-477E24E8CC5B</p><p>Holotype (Figs. 1c, 2a): male (JGZC-1216), Nicaragua, Matagalpa, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.894104&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=12.998092" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.894104/lat 12.998092)">Selva Negra</a>, 12°59′53.13″N 85°53′38.78″W, May 2010, Jean-Michel Maes leg., Holoype Caryonoda funebris n. sp. J. Gómez-Zurita det. [red label].</p><p>Body elongate elliptical, convex. Body jet black (Fig. 1c), with areas of metallic iridescence, including green reflections on antennal calli, clypeus and fine lateral margin and anterior angles of pronotum, and bluish reflections on scutellum, posterior angles of pronotum, humeral angles, and imperceptibly, depending on light incidence, on legs; basal maxillary palpomeres and four basal antennomeres ocher, with black dorsal metallic spot on scape; antennomeres 5–6 and distal maxillary palpomere dark brown, and remaining apical antennomeres black. Length: 3.9 mm; width: 2.4 mm.</p><p>Head broad, with interocular space more than half of head width; frontoclypeus with frons narrowly separated from clypeus by fine transverse furrow between narrow, transverse supraantennal calli; frons regularly convex, weakly depressed before calli, without traces of frontal suture, strongly microreticulate, matt, with fine shallow punctures smaller than intervals, except near eyes, and punctures with tiny translucent setae, slightly larger near eyes; clypeus small, longer than wide, bell-shaped, less than 1/3 as wide at base as frons between eyes, deflexed in apical half with moderate median emargination at apex, markedly microreticulate, punctured as frons in narrow basal area. Labrum slightly wider than base of clypeus, transverse, with round apical angles and anterior border slightly emarginate. Eyes convex, moderate, longer than wide, emarginate along inner border, more strongly convex and slightly stalked posteriorly. Last maxillary palpomere much longer and as wide as previous one, slightly cut at apex. Antennae filiform, reaching humeri, with antennomeres 7–11 longer (seventh longest and tenth shortest), slightly enlarged, finely rugose and more densely pubescent; antennomeres 5–6 subequal, slightly shorter than tenth, antennomeres 2–4 progressively shorter than fifth toward base of antennae, with pedicel slightly longer than wide, enlarged relative to third antennomere; scape longer than wide, dilated, about as long as seventh antennomere. Pronotum transverse (1.6 × as wide at base as long at middle) with sinuous sides, all angles acute and 1.8 × broader at base than at apex; markedly convex transversally and toward anterior angles; sides and angles finely margined, with margins finer and disappearing medially in slightly convex lobes on anterior and posterior borders; surface nearly smooth, glossy, with moderate, slightly aciculate punctures on disc, larger than punctures on frons and generally smaller than intervals, sparser near posterior border; punctures posteriorly at sides larger, tighter and more clearly aciculate; smooth intervals with scattered tiny punctures. Hypomera depressed on disc, smooth, unpunctured, with thickened margins parallel to border of pronotum, bent ventrally in inner part before large furrowed indentation of pronotum; inner bent area with abundant lanuginose whitish pubescence. Prosternum deeply furrowed at sides (Fig. 2a), prominent and flat medially, broader than transverse diameter of procoxae, laterally concave between procoxae and strongly widened posteriorly, with posterior border concave; surface irregular, glossy, with posteriorly recumbent dense lanuginose whitish pubescence in anterior half. Mesoventrite transverse, with broad short process, parallel-sided, nearly as wide as raised anterior part of prosternum, with posterior border obtuse, blunt; surface glossy, with fine punctures and posteriorly recumbent translucent setae. Mesepimera and mesanepisterna finely shagreened, unpunctured, glabrous. Metanepisterna elongate, wider anteriorly, finely shagreened, unpunctured and glabrous. Metaventrite markedly transverse, as long as prosternum at middle, with anterior border between mesocoxae slightly produced at obtuse angle and posterior border between metacoxae slightly concave; disc glossy, nearly unpunctured, with discrimen finely impressed, fine transverse scratches and dense lanuginose whitish pubescence except near posterior border; sides convex, relatively smooth, with sparse fine punctures and short, fine, posteriorly recumbent whitish setae. Scutellum slightly broader at base than long, arched at apex; surface glossy, with few sparse tiny punctures and microscopic setae. Elytra about 0.6 × as long as body, as wide at base as base of pronotum, sides weakly curved basally, widest in front of middle and gradually tapering toward regularly round apex, with borders finely explanate; markedly convex anteriorly, with strong humeri flanked internally by short longitudinal depression; surface smooth, glossier and with punctures smaller than on pronotum on disc, much smaller in apical half and laterally, forming regular longitudinal alignments in lateral and apical declivities, and irregular sparsely subgeminate series on disc. Epipleura wide at base, gradually narrowing posteriorly but not particularly thin and reaching sutural angle, slanted ventrally, entirely visible in lateral view; surface smooth, unpunctured, glabrous. Legs long, robust, with femora enlarged medially, particularly profemora, unarmed. Tibiae robust, shorter than corresponding femur gradually enlarged toward apex, more markedly in pro- and mesotibiae; pro- and mesotibiae feebly curved and metatibiae straight, with faint longitudinal keels and dense pale yellow setae ventrally at apex of meso- and metatibiae. Basitarsomeres of pro- and mesotarsi as long as tarsomeres 2–3 combined and notably wider, and basitarsomeres of metatarsi slightly shorter and narrower than corresponding tarsomeres 2–3; onychia as long or longer than basitarsomeres, clavate and slightly curved ventrally, carrying divaricate appendiculate claws. Pygidium short, weakly convex, with large median longitudinal furrow. Abdominal ventrites 1–4 strongly transverse, with posterior border concave; first ventrite as long as metaventrite at middle, with wide transverse subtrapezoidal process anteriorly; ventrites 2–4 subequal, half as long as first ventrite; fifth ventrite 1.5 × as long as fourth, strongly narrowed posteriorly, with biconvex apical emargination; surface of all ventrites smooth, glossy, with sparse fine punctures and posteriorly recumbent short fine translucent setae. Penis relatively broad and parallel, subtrapezoidal at apex with round angles and small median blunt projection; ostium occupying most of apex dorsally, covered by poorly sclerotized dorsal flap, longitudinally membranous at middle (Fig. 3k).</p><p>Diagnosis. Caryonoda funebris n. sp. is the largest representative of the genus so far, larger than 3.5 mm, when all the other species are smaller (the largest known species, with up to 3.0 mm, were C. campanulicollis Bechyné 1951 and C. meridiana Bechyné 1953). But apart from size, color is also an easy feature to distinguish the new species, since it is the only one known to have black dorsum with faint, nearly imperceptible metallic bluish or purplish sheen, when all the other species have black dorsum but with strong bronzy, greenish, bluish or purplish metallic shine on pronotum and elytra. The legs of C. funebris are also entirely black with faint bluish or purplish shine and in the other species they have at least apex of tibiae and tarsi testaceous. The punctation of pronotum and elytra of C. funebris is very fine and sparse, relatively homogenously distributed on pronotum and sparsely subgeminate on disc and aligned as single rows in apical declivity of elytra; punctation in other species is relatively strong, denser, both on pronotum and elytra, in most species leaving wide unpunctured areas basally on pronotum.</p><p>Derivatio nominis. The species name is an adjective (f.) derived from the Latin fūnŭs, -ĕris (neut.), meaning funeral, or the ceremony to honor deceased people. The name is used in reference to the black color of the species compared to the festive metallic colors of other species. Black is used as a somber sign of mourning in Western cultures, possibly inherited from the classical Roman tradition and the use of the so-called toga pulla, the dark-colored toga, in the funerals of renowned people.</p><p>Distribution. The genus Caryonoda was currently known from localities south of the Isthmus of Panama, including C. meridiana in Venezuela, C. tibialis (Lefèvre 1885) in Colombia, C. campanulicollis and C. kuscheli Bechyné 1951 in Bolivia (the latter also in Peru), and C. bisinuata Bechyné and Bechyné 1961 and C. pohli Bechyné 1951 in Brasil. The presence of C. funebris n. sp. in Nicaragua represents the first record of the genus in Central America. The only known specimen is from the cloud forest of Matagalpa, consistent with the previous records of the genus in humid biomes east of the Andean cordillera.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C10025648FCF25B56B605C1D9	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús;Maes, Jean-Michel	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Maes, Jean-Michel (2022): New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America. Neotropical Entomology 51 (5): 705-721, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2
03CF879C10075648FCF25CC4B794C76C.text	03CF879C10075648FCF25CC4B794C76C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Eumolpinae	<div><p>New genera and species records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae</p><p>The confirmed presence of Caryonoda funebris n. sp. in Nicaragua represents the first formal record for this genus in Nicaragua, but also in Central America. But in the course of our work in Nicaragua, we found several other new genera and species records, in this case for the country. The list below reports these findings with commentaries about the species, their identification, and their distributions, and provides illustrations to help interpreting our findings in future studies.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C10075648FCF25CC4B794C76C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús;Maes, Jean-Michel	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Maes, Jean-Michel (2022): New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America. Neotropical Entomology 51 (5): 705-721, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2
03CF879C10075649FC8D5A73B794C411.text	03CF879C10075649FC8D5A73B794C411.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Allocolaspis grandicollis (Blake 1976)	<div><p>Allocolaspis grandicollis (Blake, 1976a)</p><p>(Figs. 3h, 4a)</p><p>New species record: JGZC: (1) male (JGZC-1236), Rivas, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.55392&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.234449" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.55392/lat 11.234449)">Cárdenas</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.55392&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.234449" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.55392/lat 11.234449)">Finca Sierra Serena</a>, 11.234449 -85.5539179, 66 m, 14 July 2010, J.-M. Maes leg., Allocolaspis grandicollis (Blake) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022. MEL: (1) 1 ex., # 232, Región Autónoma de la Costa Caribe Norte, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-84.97857&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.75054" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -84.97857/lat 13.75054)">Reserva Biosfera BOSAWAS</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-84.97857&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.75054" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -84.97857/lat 13.75054)">Cerro Saslaya</a>, 13.75054 -84.97857, 250–300 m, 6–10 May 2011, B. Hernández leg.; (2) 2 exx., # 152, Región Autónoma de la Costa Caribe Norte, 8 km E <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-84.52534&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=14.013335" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -84.52534/lat 14.013335)">Bonanza</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-84.52534&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=14.013335" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -84.52534/lat 14.013335)">Centro de Información y Comunicación Regional para el Trópico Húmedo (CICABO)</a>, 14.013335 -84.525334, 21 August 2000, sobre cacao, Y. Dixon leg., Allocolaspis sp. W. Flowers det. 2020; (3) 1 ex., # 270, idem, 8 September 2000, J. Flores leg.; (4) 1 ex., idem, 12 December 2000, sobre aguacate, Y. Dixon leg.; (5) 1 ex., <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.05349&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.032255" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.05349/lat 11.032255)">Río San Juan</a>, Los Guatuzos, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.05349&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.032255" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.05349/lat 11.032255)">Río Papaturro</a>, 11.032255 -85.053492, 40 m, 17–24 March 2000, J.-M. Maes, J. Sunyer &amp; B. Hernández leg.; (6) 1 ex., Rivas, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.96813&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.554471" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.96813/lat 11.554471)">Mata de Caña</a>, 11.554471 -85.968130, 110 m, 31 July–1 August 2002, en bosque ripario, B. Hernández leg.</p><p>Allocolaspis Bechyné 1950a, as currently defined, is a genus with species distributed in northern South America, Central America south from Guatemala, and the Antilles (Bechyné 1953; Flowers 1996). Fourteen species were reported from the region of interest, with one of them endemic from Nicaragua, A. belti (Jacoby 1881), and the only record of the genus in the country. The current species, originally described from Panama, and confirmed studying the penis (Fig. 3h) of the only specimen collected in Nicaragua (Fig. 4a), would be the second registered species of Allocolaspis in this country.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C10075649FC8D5A73B794C411	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús;Maes, Jean-Michel	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Maes, Jean-Michel (2022): New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America. Neotropical Entomology 51 (5): 705-721, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2
03CF879C1006564AFC8D5966B794C2A2.text	03CF879C1006564AFC8D5966B794C2A2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Antitypona submetallica (Jacoby 1890) J. Gomez-Zurita	<div><p>Antitypona submetallica (Jacoby, 1890)</p><p>(Figs. 1a, 3c)</p><p>New species record: JGZC: male (JGZC-1211), Granada, Reserva Silvestre Privada Domitila, May 2010, J.-M. Maes leg., Antitypona submetallica (Jac.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022 .</p><p>There is some confusion about the limits between the genera Antitypona and Lamprosphaerus, two genera of typically small, roundish, and metallic beetles with a facies similar to Spintherophyta and Brachypnoea, but without clavate antennae. Both genera can be somewhat distinguished by the shape of hypomera, longitudinally indented in Lamprosphaerus and relatively convex in Antitypona (Weise 1921), and also by the degree of inclination of epipleura, horizontal in Lamprosphaerus and slanted, visible laterally in Antitypona (Flowers 1996) . A single male specimen from Nicaragua (nearly 3 mm long) is very similar to the female type specimen of A. submetallica (Jacoby, 1890) except in the marked dorsal metallic green color and the antennae more slender and nearly entirely pale (except last antennomere), but the latter also show the enlarged pedicel and short and fine antennomeres 3–4 as in the type and the same fine punctation on head and pronotum over microreticulated background (Fig. 1a). This male is tentatively classified as Jacoby’s species, also taking into account that all the other species of Antitypona, except the characteristic A. apicalis (&gt; 3.5 mm), are much smaller (&lt;2.6 mm), but the penis is figured to allow for future assessment of our interpretation (Fig. 3c). The species is known from Costa Rica and Panama (Flowers 1996), and the Nicaraguan record would extend the range of the species to the north.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C1006564AFC8D5966B794C2A2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús;Maes, Jean-Michel	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Maes, Jean-Michel (2022): New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America. Neotropical Entomology 51 (5): 705-721, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2
03CF879C1005564BFC8D5E00B13BC47C.text	03CF879C1005564BFC8D5E00B13BC47C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Brachypnoea modesta subsp. animatoria (Bechyne 1953)	<div><p>Brachypnoea modesta animatoria (Bechyné, 1953)</p><p>(Figs. 1b, 3j, 5a)</p><p>New species record: JGZC: 2 females (JGZC-1299 and 1313) and 2 males (JGZC-1314 and 1315), <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.68079&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.179983" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.68079/lat 11.179983)">Rivas</a>, Sapoa, Finca Guadalupe, 11.179983 -85.6807925, 15 September 2009, J.-M. Maes leg., Brachypnoea modesta animatoria (Bech.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022 .</p><p>Brachypnoea Gistel, 1848 is one of the most diverse genera of Central American Eumolpinae, also in Nicaragua, where five species were reported so far (Maes and Staines 1991). The new specimens of Brachypnoea collected in Nicaragua belong to an informal group of species that could be characterized by small size (around 3.0 mm or less), fulvous antennae and legs, as well as the presence of tubercles and costae on the elytra of females, among other traits. A particular feature of these specimens is that they have fulvous tibiae and tarsi, but dark femora, which is a combination not that commonly seen in Brachypnoea . B. thoracica (Jacoby, 1881) and B. opacicollis (Jacoby, 1890) from Mexico show bicolor legs, but they have the antennae with apical antennomeres dark and females lack basal tubercles on elytra, and they have differences in texture and punctation of pronotum as compared to the Nicaraguan specimens ( B. thoracica is much larger too). B. boucardi (Jacoby, 1878) from Guatemala, another species with pale tibiae and tarsi, is not that different to the insects from Nicaragua, but the species was described as having dark apical antennomeres and the type material in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, a male, possibly the holotype, shows differences in the punctation of pronotum and elytra, which also have faint apical costae, missing in the Nicaraguan males. Moreover, Bechyné (1955) subordinated B. boucardi to B. lefevrei (Jacoby, 1878), which in case that this was a sound assessment, it would imply that the females lack tubercles on elytra, unlike the specimens from Nicaragua. B. fulvicornis (Jacoby, 1890) from Mexico occasionally has darker femora, but this species has dull pronotum with very fine punctation, compared to the Nicaraguan specimens. Something very similar could be said for B. parvula (Jacoby, 1890) from Panama, typically having bicolor legs, but fine, dull sculpture on pronotum. However, B. parvula belongs to an unstable taxonomic complex that has experienced some changes in rank and combination, including the incorporation of traits that fit the Nicaraguan specimens. For example, Bechyné (1953) described B. parvula animatoria from Costa Rica and Guatemala, precisely highlighting the stronger punctation on pronotum of these specimens compared to typical B. parvula . Later, Bechyné (1955) subordinated B. parvula to B. modesta (Lefèvre, 1878), a species characterized by the presence of a tubercle posterior to the prebasal depression of elytra, present in the Nicaraguan specimens (Fig. 1b). Based on these considerations, we are inclined to agree with the taxonomic solution adopted by Flowers (1996), considering the combination B. modesta animatoria, where we refer our Nicaraguan specimens, thus adding an intermediate locality to the current disjunct distribution between Guatemala and Costa Rica. With the aim to assist future reanalysis of these taxa and how they relate to each other, we provide with illustrations of the male genitalia (Fig. 3j) and spermatheca (Fig. 5a).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C1005564BFC8D5E00B13BC47C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús;Maes, Jean-Michel	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Maes, Jean-Michel (2022): New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America. Neotropical Entomology 51 (5): 705-721, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2
03CF879C10045644FF645944B13BC285.text	03CF879C10045644FF645944B13BC285.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Chrysodinopsis cupriceps (Gómez-Zurita & Maes 1877) Gómez-Zurita & Maes 2022	<div><p>Chrysodinopsis cupriceps (Lefèvre, 1877) n. comb.</p><p>Chrysodina cupriceps Lefèvre, 1877</p><p>(Figs. 1d, 3b, 5b)</p><p>New species record: JGZC: (1) female (JGZC-1375), Estelí, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.2293&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.263" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.2293/lat 13.263)">Reserva Natrual Miraflor</a>, Finca Beylla Vista, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.2293&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.263" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.2293/lat 13.263)">Mirador Los Cerritos</a>, 13.263 -86.2293 [118], July 2010, A. Del Socorro &amp; B. Nimia leg., Chrysodinopsis cupriceps (Lef.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (2) female (JGZC-1333), Estelí, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.2293&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.263" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.2293/lat 13.263)">Area Protegida Miraflor-Moropotente</a>, July 2010, on Acanthospermum hispidum, A. del Socorro &amp; B. Nimia leg., Chrysodinopsis cupriceps (Lef.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (3) female (JGZC-1753), Estelí, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.2293&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.263" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.2293/lat 13.263)">Reserva Natural Miraflor</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.2293&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.263" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.2293/lat 13.263)">Comunidad Isiqui</a>, 13.113206 -862,244,199, August 2010, on Astronium graveolens, A. del Socorro &amp; B. Nimia leg., Chrysodinopsis cupriceps (Lef.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (4) female (JGZC-1757), Estelí, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.2293&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.263" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.2293/lat 13.263)">Reserva Natural Miraflor</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.2293&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.263" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.2293/lat 13.263)">Comunidad Isiqui</a>, 13.106656 -86.2320785, August 2010, on Datura stramonium, A. del Socorro &amp; B. Nimia leg., Chrysodinopsis cupriceps (Lef.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (5) female (JGZC-1760), Estelí, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.2293&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.263" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.2293/lat 13.263)">Reserva Natural Miraflor</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.2293&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.263" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.2293/lat 13.263)">Comunidad Isiqui</a>, 13.106656 -86.2320785, August 2010, on Datura stramonium, A. del Socorro &amp; B. Nimia leg., Chrysodinopsis cupriceps (Lef.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (6) female (JGZC-1763), Estelí, Reserva Natural Miraflor, Comunidad Isiqui, 13.106656 -86.2320785, August 2010, on Milleria quinqueflora, A. del Socorro &amp; B. Nimia leg., Chrysodinopsis cupriceps (Lef.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (7) female (JGZC-1765), Estelí, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.2293&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.263" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.2293/lat 13.263)">Reserva Natural Miraflor</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.2293&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.263" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.2293/lat 13.263)">Comunidad Isiqui</a>, August 2010, A. del Socorro &amp; B. Nimia leg., Chrysodinopsis cupriceps (Lef.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (8) male (JGZC-1230), Rivas, Finca Guadalupe, 11.179983 -85.6807925, 290 m, 10–12 July 2010, J.-M. Maes leg., Chrysodinopsis cupriceps (Lef.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022.</p><p>Jacoby (1890) reflected on Chrysodina cupriceps and suggested that it may be better placed with Noda curtula, and both in his Noda (currently, Brachypnoea), based on their morphological similarities. Bechyné (1950b) created the monotypic genus Chrysodinopsis for N. curtula based on differences in the shape of elytra and epipleura relative to typical Brachypnoea, and later transferred N. basalis to this genus too (Bechyné 1957), while retaining C. cupriceps in Chrysodina (Bechyné 1953) . Flowers (1996) respected the limits to Chrysodinopsis established by Bechyné (1957) and transferred C. cupriceps to Brachypnoea . Van Roie et al. (2019) reported C. cupriceps from El Salvador, placing it in the genus Chrysodinopsis, but without justification. After comparing C. cupriceps with C. curtula, we agree with Jacoby’s (1890) original assessment on the strong morphological similarity between both species, including slightly flattened apex of elytra in the only male examined. While the validity of Chrysodinopsis remains unchallenged, both species should be placed in the same genus based on their morphological proximity; thus, we formalize the new combination here. Previously reported from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico (Flowers 1996; Van Roie et al. 2019), the presence of C. cupriceps in Nicaragua would extent the range of the species considerably to the south. Nicaraguan specimens range from cupreous to metallic green, blue, purple, and almost black, sometimes with slight differences in the hue of pronotum and elytra, but the head is always of a different color compared to the rest of the body (Fig. 1d). We illustrate the penis and the spermatheca of the species for future comparisons (Figs. 3b and 5b).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C10045644FF645944B13BC285	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús;Maes, Jean-Michel	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Maes, Jean-Michel (2022): New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America. Neotropical Entomology 51 (5): 705-721, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2
03CF879C100B5644FF645FEAB794C642.text	03CF879C100B5644FF645FEAB794C642.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Colaspis jalapae (Bechyne 1950)	<div><p>Colaspis jalapae (Bechyné, 1950c)</p><p>(Figs. 3a, 4c, 5c)</p><p>New species record: JGZC: (1) male (JGZC-1790), Estelí, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.248886&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.22111" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.248886/lat 13.22111)">Reserva Natural Miraflor</a>, 13°13′16″N 86°14′56″W, 1389 m, 10 September 2011, on Solanum myriacanthum, J.-M. Maes leg., Colaspis jalapae (Bech.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (2) male (JGZC-1795), Estelí, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.255&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.255278" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.255/lat 13.255278)">Reserva Natural Miraflor</a>, 13°15′19″N 85°15′18″W, 1300 m, 10 September 2011, on Salvia comayaguana, J.-M. Maes leg., Colaspis jalapae (Bech.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (3) female (JGZC-2636), Estelí, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.24916&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.245833" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.24916/lat 13.245833)">Reserva Natural Miraflor</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.24916&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.245833" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.24916/lat 13.245833)">La Neblina del Bosque</a> (jardín), 13°14′45″N 86°14′57″W, 1350 m, 28 January 2012, A. Cardoso, G. De la Cadena &amp; A. Papadopoulou leg., Colaspis jalapae (Bech.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (4) female (JGZC-1411), Jinotega, nr. El Mojón, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.052795&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.237929" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.052795/lat 13.237929)">Reserva El Jaguar</a>, 13.237929 -86.052792, 1314 m, 20–21 November 2010, J.-M. Maes leg., Colaspis jalapae (Bech.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (5) male (JGZC-0143), Matagalpa, Selva Negra, 12°59′53.13″N 85°53′38.78″W, 27 October 2001, P. Jolivet leg., Colaspis jalapae (Bech.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (6) male (JGZC-1319), idem, October 2009, J.-M. Maes leg.; male (JGZC-1212), idem, May 2010, J.-M. Maes leg.; (7) male (JGZC-1407), idem, November 2010, J.-M. Maes leg.; female (JGZC-1227), Región Autónoma Atlántico Norte, 7 km N Waslala, Cañón Los Martínez, 900 m, June 2009, Fr. LePont leg., Colaspis jalapae (Bech.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022. MEL: (1) 20 exx., # 130, Estelí, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.25413&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.245704" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.25413/lat 13.245704)">Paisaje Natural Protegido Miraflores-Moropotente</a>, 13.245704 -86.254129, 1434 m, 26–27 October 2001, J.-M. Maes &amp; B. Téllez leg.; (2) 4 exx., Jinotega, road Matagalpa-Jinotega, km 147.5, 13.044723 -85.934450, 1500 m, 20 November 1994, J.-M. Maes, J. Téllez &amp; J. Hernández leg., Colaspis prasina C.L. Staines det. 1996; (3) 2 exx., #129, idem, 3 December 1994, Colaspis sanjoseana R. Westerduijn det. 2020; (4) 2 exx., Jinotega, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.05266&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.237978" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.05266/lat 13.237978)">El Jaguar</a>, 13.237978 -85.052655, 1346 m, 25 October 2003, J.-M. Maes leg.; (5) 3 exx., Matagalpa, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.92083&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.010834" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.92083/lat 13.010834)">Fuente Pura</a>, 13.010834 -85.920830, 1550 m, 20 March 1994, J.-M. Maes &amp; A. De La Fuente leg.; (6) 1 ex., # 60, idem, 10 April 1994, Colaspis sanjoseana R. Westerduijn det. 2020; (7) 1 ex., idem, 12 June 1994, J.-M. Maes, J. Téllez &amp; J. Hernández leg.; (8) 3 exx., # 61, idem, 26 June 1994; (9) 3 exx., idem, 21 July 1994; (10) 3 exx., idem, 16 August 1994, J.-M. Maes &amp; J. Hernández leg.; (11) 7 exx., idem, 4 September 1994, J.-M. Maes leg.; (12) 8 exx., idem, 5 September 1994; (13) 1 ex., idem, 30 April 1995, J.-M. Maes, J. Téllez, J. Puig, V. Hellebuyck &amp; J. Hernández leg.; (14) 3 exx., idem, March 1997, J.-M. Maes, J. Téllez &amp; J. Prena leg.; (15) 1 ex., idem, 24–25 April 1999, J.-M. Maes &amp; B. Hernández leg.</p><p>The genus Colaspis Fabricius, 1801 (the Maecolaspis Bechyné, 1950b of most Neotropical catalogs; also in Maes and Staines 1991) is definitely one of the most diverse genera of American Eumolpinae . The genus is well represented in Nicaragua, where at least seven species were reported (Maes and Staines 1991). Here, we report a new species of Colaspis from Nicaragua that belongs in the bulk of very similar species occurring throughout America, and highly diverse in Central America, typically characterized by bright metallic green dorsum and fulvous legs and antennae, and very difficult taxonomically, since most species are very similar externally (Bechyné 1950c). C. jalapae was described from Veracruz (Mexico) and has not been reported anywhere else; thus, the presence of the species in Nicaragua would represent a significant expansion of the known range. Given the taxonomic difficulties of this group, there is a chance that the identification of Nicaraguan specimens is wrong, but these large (6.4–7.2 mm) and brightly colored specimens, even though they are not as big as reported in the original description (i.e., 8 mm), share the most important traits with the Mexican species, as to leave little doubt about their identification or, at the very least, their taxonomic proximity. Some of these traits include the darkened interstitial antennomeres and also the abrupt median enlargement of male metatibiae (Bechyné 1950c). One female specimen as well as the male genitalia and the spermatheca are illustrated for future reference (Figs. 3a, 4c, 5c).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C100B5644FF645FEAB794C642	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús;Maes, Jean-Michel	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Maes, Jean-Michel (2022): New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America. Neotropical Entomology 51 (5): 705-721, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2
03CF879C100B5645FC8D5B2EB13DC035.text	03CF879C100B5645FC8D5B2EB13DC035.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Megascelis spinipes (Jacoby 1888)	<div><p>Megascelis spinipes (Jacoby, 1888)</p><p>(Figs. 2b, 4f, 5d)</p><p>New species record: JGZC: (1) female (JGZC-1490), Estelí, Reserva Natural Miraflor, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.32522&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.189271" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.32522/lat 13.189271)">Finca Las Flores</a>, 13.189271 -86.325221, 926 m, March 2010, A. del Socorro &amp; B. Nimia leg., Megascelis spinipes Jac. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (2) female (JGZC-1510), Granada, Reserva Silvestre Privada Domitila, 7 November 2010, J.-M. Maes leg., Megascelis spinipes Jac. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022. MEL: (1) male, Carazo, Reserva Chacocente, 11–13 November 1992, bosque tropical seco, Maes, Martínez &amp; López leg., Megascelis sp. C. L. Staines det. 1993; (2) 2 exx., Granada, R. S. P. Domitila, UTM 16P 0,558,750— 1,334,939, 230 m, 25 November 2003, J.-M. Maes leg.; (3) 1 ex., idem, 14–18 April 2004; (4) 1 ex., idem, May 2005; (5) 1 ex., idem, 12–15 December 2006; (6) 1 ex., Granada, Volcán Mombacho, Finca El Progreso, 30 May 1999, trampa Malaise en cafetal con tratamiento químico, J.-M. Maes leg.; (7) 1 ex., Managua, La Chinampa, UTM 16P 0,558,750— 1,334,939, 230 m, 26–29 September 2001, J.-M. Maes leg.</p><p>This is a member of another large, taxonomically complicated group of mostly Neotropical Eumolpinae (Lacordaire 1845), which is also relatively diverse in Nicaragua, where up to four species have been reported so far (Maes and Staines 1991). This would be the first Nicaraguan report of M. spinipes, a species cited from Guatemala and southern Mexico (Flowers 1996), and we are confident on our identification based on the male, displaying a pronounced tooth in metafemora (Fig. 2b), and two female specimens (Fig. 4f) compared with one of the species syntypes in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard, USA). There are several distinguishing traits for the species, apart from the notorious metafemoral modification in males, including the dark, relatively dull green color of dorsum with a broad ocher lateral stripe on elytra, tight transverse punctures and dense golden pubescence of elytra, or the finely transversely rugose texture of pronotum among others. We also illustrate the spermatheca of the species (Fig. 5d), which would have a much larger range than originally assumed.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C100B5645FC8D5B2EB13DC035	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús;Maes, Jean-Michel	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Maes, Jean-Michel (2022): New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America. Neotropical Entomology 51 (5): 705-721, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2
03CF879C100A5646FF645D9CB13CC0BE.text	03CF879C100A5646FF645D9CB13CC0BE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Metachroma panamense (Blake 1970)	<div><p>Metachroma panamense (Blake, 1970)</p><p>(Figs. 5e, 6a)</p><p>New species record: JGZC: female (JGZC-2594), León, Salinas Grandes, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.8813&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=12.27217" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.8813/lat 12.27217)">Reserva Natural Isla de Juan Venado</a>, 12.27217 -86.88130, 36 m, 24 January 2012, J. Gómez-Zurita, A. Cardoso, G. De la Cadena &amp; A. Papadopoulou leg., Metachroma clarkei Blake J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022. MEL: 2 exx., #70, Carazo, Chacocente, 11.534389 -86.188843, 5 m, 11–13 September 1992, trampa de luz en bosque tropical seco, J.-M. Maes, A. Martínez &amp; R. López leg., Metachroma sp. C. L. Staines det. 1993 .</p><p>Metachroma Chevrolat, 1836 was comprehensively revised by Blake (1970) and she raised the number of species found in Central America from twelve up to 25 species, most of them from Mexico, and three of them reported from Nicaragua already (Maes and Staines 1991). M. panamense is a species originally described from Panama, as the name suggests, and characterized by the presence of four dark spots on the pronotum, vittate elytra, and differences in punctation and sculpture on pronotum and elytra compared to other species with spotted pronotum, as well as the lack of convex lateral intervals in female elytra (Blake 1970). The specimen from Nicaragua fits the description of M. panamense in most respects, including the relatively short inner appendix of bifid claws, the presence of median dark spots on disc of elytra close (actually fused) to suture, pale margins of pronotum and scutellum, and a relatively small size (length of female = 4.1 mm). However, the specimen also shares some traits with M. clarkei Blake, 1970, a larger Mexican species described from Yucatan, but very similar externally to M. panamense, although they present some distinctive traits which are present in the Nicaraguan specimen. These would include darkened apical antennomeres, presence of subhumeral and median dark spots fused to lateral margin of elytra, the prominent spots on elytra with sutural stripe enlarged behind scutellum, or the relatively strong punctation on elytra, attenuated apically, but clearly distinct on disc. Both species apparently have very similar male genitalia, based on Blake’s (1970) illustrations, and it is entirely possible that they are indeed conspecific. However, until the genus is revised again with more data, we are inclined to consider the Nicaraguan record akin to the Panamanian, rather than the Mexican taxon. The specimen (Fig. 6a) and the spermatheca (Fig. 5e) are figured to assist future taxonomic reassessment.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C100A5646FF645D9CB13CC0BE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús;Maes, Jean-Michel	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Maes, Jean-Michel (2022): New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America. Neotropical Entomology 51 (5): 705-721, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2
03CF879C10095646FF6A5C05B794C13B.text	03CF879C10095646FF6A5C05B794C13B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Nodocolaspis femoralis (Lefevre 1878)	<div><p>Nodocolaspis femoralis (Lefèvre, 1878)</p><p>(Figs. 3i, 4b, 5f)</p><p>New species record: JGZC: (1) male (JGZC-2640), León, La Paz Centro, rd to <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.593&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=12.43437" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.593/lat 12.43437)">Geotérmica</a>, between road and swamp, lagood after <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.593&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=12.43437" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.593/lat 12.43437)">Loma de Chistata</a>, 12.43437 -86.59300, 66 m, 1 February 2012, A. Cardoso, G. De la Cadena, J.-M. Maes &amp; A. Papadopoulou leg., Colaspis balyi Jac. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (2) male (JGZC-1954), Managua, Montelimar, Reserva Natura, 26 February 2011, on Cissus verticillata, J.-M. Maes leg., Colaspis balyi Jac. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (3) female (JGZC-2592), Managua, Montelimar, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.50341&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.87659" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.50341/lat 11.87659)">Reserva Natura</a>, 11.87659 -86.50341, 125 m, 22 January 2012, J. Gómez-Zurita, A. Cardoso, G. De la Cadena &amp; A. Papadopoulou leg., Colaspis balyi Jac. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022. MEL: (1) 1 ex., #277, Región Autónoma de la Costa Caribe Norte, 8 km E Bonanza, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-84.52534&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=14.013335" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -84.52534/lat 14.013335)">Centro de Información y Comunicación Regional para el Trópico Húmedo (CICABO)</a>, 14.013335 -84.525334, 100 m, 17–20 November 2000, J.-M. Maes &amp; B. Hernández leg., Nodocolaspis femoralis M. Geiser det. 2020; (2) 1 ex., #278, Región Autónoma de la Costa Caribe Norte, Wani, 13.697231 -84.850277, 100 m, November 1995, J.-M. Maes &amp; J. Hernández leg., Nodocolaspis femoralis M. Geiser det. 2020; (3) 1 ex., #214, Río San Juan, Los Guatuzos, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.05349&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.032255" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.05349/lat 11.032255)">Río Papaturro</a>, 11.032255 -85.053492, 40 m, 17–24 March 2000, J. Sunyer &amp; B. Hernández leg., Nodocolaspis femoralis M. Geiser det. 2020.</p><p>This species was originally described in the genus Colaspis and it is reminiscent of the informal group of C. melancholica, as defined by Blake (1976b), characterized by species of nearly black dorsum with traces of metallic shine and strong, dense dorsal punctation. However, it was transferred to the genus Nodocolaspis Bechyné, 1949 by Bechyné (1953), who recognized the synonymy with Colaspis rufofemorata Lefèvre, 1884 and the proximity of the species to N. tarsata (Lefèvre, 1882), the latter clearly in the genus Nodocolapis according to this author, based on the shape of prosternum, antennae and male protarsi. Subsequent authors, such as Flowers (1996), disregarded this taxonomic decision although expressed doubts about the correct placement of Colaspis femoralis . We agree with the interpretation by Bechyné (1953) and retain his classification to emphasize the position of this species outside of the genus Colaspis . The species is known from Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, and the State of Amazonas in Brasil (Lefèvre 1878, 1884; Jacoby 1890; Bechyné 1955, 1958), and it shows some variability in the coloration of legs (Bechyné 1953), including red femora and tibiae, red femora and black tibiae, or red femora with black apex and black tibiae, the latter corresponding to the type of C. rufofemorata, the variant we found in Nicaragua (Fig. 4b) and also reported by Jacoby (1890) from Panama. If the conspecificity of specimens from the Amazonas to Nicaragua were confirmed, this would be one of the species of American Eumolpinae with a larger range across the Isthmus of Panama. We illustrate the penis (Fig. 3i) and spermatheca (Fig. 5f) of this species for the first time.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C10095646FF6A5C05B794C13B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús;Maes, Jean-Michel	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Maes, Jean-Michel (2022): New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America. Neotropical Entomology 51 (5): 705-721, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2
03CF879C10095646FC8D5C8FB794C486.text	03CF879C10095646FC8D5C8FB794C486.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Paria nigritarsis (Jacoby 1882)	<div><p>Paria nigritarsis (Jacoby, 1882)</p><p>(Figs. 5g, 6b)</p><p>New genus and species record: JGZC: female (JGZC-2596), Rivas, Cárdenas, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.55123&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.23345" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.55123/lat 11.23345)">Finca Isla Vista</a>, 11.23345 -85.55123, 56 m, 8 February 2012, A. Cardoso, G. De la Cadena &amp; A. Papadopoulou leg., Paria nigritarsis Jac. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022 .</p><p>Paria LeConte, 1858 is a genus relatively diverse in North America and with some twenty species in the Neotropics (Bechyné 1953). In Central America, there are records for only half a dozen species and it has not been reported from Nicaragua so far (Flowers 1996). This would be the first country record of Paria, corresponding to one species that was known from Guatemala and Panama, thus providing an intermediate occurrence that suggests a more continuous distribution in tropical Mesoamerica. The specimens from Nicaragua conform to the type and description of P. nigritarsis, except for their pale tarsi. However, this seems to be a polymorphic trait in the species, considering that Jacoby (1891) already reported that the specimens he had seen from Panama also had pale tarsi. The cephalic traits of this species, including the narrow supraocular furrow and the broad, flat area of frontoclypeus between antennae clearly refer the species to the genus Paria . We provide with illustrations of habitus (Fig. 6b) and spermatheca (Fig. 5g).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C10095646FC8D5C8FB794C486	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús;Maes, Jean-Michel	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Maes, Jean-Michel (2022): New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America. Neotropical Entomology 51 (5): 705-721, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2
03CF879C10095647FC8D59EDB793C361.text	03CF879C10095647FC8D59EDB793C361.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Rhabdopterus uncotibialis (Blake 1976)	<div><p>Rhabdopterus uncotibialis (Blake, 1976a)</p><p>(Figs. 3d, 4d, 5h)</p><p>New species record: JGZC: (1) female (JGZC-1226), Atlántico Norte, cra. a Siuna, Empalme-Coperna, Puente Baka, June 2009, Fr. LePont leg., Rhabdopterus uncotibialis (Blake) J. Gómez-Zurita det.; (2) female (JGZC-1378), Jinotega, Volcán Yali (norte), 13.266881 -86.1724001, 4 September 2010, J.-M. Maes leg., Rhabdopterus uncotibialis (Blake) J. Gómez-Zurita det.; (3) male (JGZC-1401), Matagalpa, Selva Negra, 12°59′53.13″N 85°53′38.78″W, November 2010, J.-M. Maes leg., Rhabdopterus uncotibialis (Blake) J. Gómez-Zurita det. MEL: (1) 1 ex., #263, Matagalpa, Selva Negra, 12.996111 -85.908330, 1300 m, 5–7 March 2001, J.-M. Maes, J. Peña &amp; B. Téllez leg.; (2) 1 ex., Región Autónoma de la Costa Caribe Norte, 8 km E Bonanza, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-84.52534&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=14.013335" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -84.52534/lat 14.013335)">Centro de Información y Comunicación Regional para el Trópico Húmedo (CICABO)</a>, 14.013335 -84.525334, 100 m, 5 April 2000, on Theobroma cacao, J.-M. Maes &amp; B. Hernández leg.; (3) 1 ex., idem, 15 June 2000, on Persea americana, Y. Dixon leg.; (4) 1 ex., idem, 28 June 2000, on Theobroma cacao; (5) 3 exx., idem, 4 July 2000; (6) 2 exx., idem, 14 July 2000; (7) 6 exx., idem, 19–20 July 2000; (8) 1 ex., idem, 21 July 2000, on Canavalia ensiformis; (9) 5 exx., #11 and #259, idem, 2 August 2000, on Theobroma cacao, Rhabdopterus sp. R. Westerduijn det. 2020; (10) 1 ex., idem, 21 August 2000; (11) 1 ex., idem, 23 October 2000; (12) 1 ex., idem, 8 November 2000, sobre canela; (13) 1 ex., idem, 20 November 2000, on Theobroma cacao; (14) 1 ex., idem, 12 December 2000, sobre aguacate; (15) 1 ex., idem, 19 December 2000, sobre guanabana.</p><p>Rhabdopterus Lefèvre, 1885 is a diverse genus in both the Nearctic and Neotropical regions, of relatively imprecise boundaries and with up to thirteen species distributed in Central America, six of them possibly in Nicaragua (Maes and Staines 1991; Flowers 1996). Most species were described by Jacoby (1882) as Rhabdophorus, and a few were described by Blake (1976a), who interpreted them as semicostate Colaspis (Flowers 1996) . The species of Rhabdopterus often present species-specific color patterns in their antennae, with different sets of alternating pale and dark antennomeres. The specimens from Nicaragua clearly have the seventh (and to some extent the sixth as well) and three apical antennomeres dark, which is a very unusual combination. As far as we know, this pattern has only been described for R. uncotibialis, a species currently known from Panama thus far, and the Nicaraguan specimens (Fig. 4d) fit the description of this species in every other detail, including the size above 5.5 mm. Interestingly, it is not possible to reach this species using Blake’s (1976a) key because she considered different length proportions of pronotum and elytra as observed in the Nicaraguan specimens, which have elytra three or more times longer than pronotum. This trait would lead to R. panamensis (Blake, 1976a) instead, which is admittedly similar to R. uncotibialis, but clearly smaller (&lt;5 mm) and lacks the characteristic color pattern of the antennae (Blake 1976a). Moreover, the penis of the Nicaraguan male specimen (Fig. 3d) has the characteristic angulate preapical margin of R. uncotibialis, instead of the gradually narrowed apical margin that Blake (1976a) described for R. panamensis . The availability of females allows illustrating the spermatheca of the species (Fig. 5h), and our new records considerably expand the range of the species northward.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C10095647FC8D59EDB793C361	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús;Maes, Jean-Michel	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Maes, Jean-Michel (2022): New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America. Neotropical Entomology 51 (5): 705-721, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2
03CF879C10085647FC8D5E76B794C6CF.text	03CF879C10085647FC8D5E76B794C6CF.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Spintherophyta ignita (Lefevre 1877)	<div><p>Spintherophyta ignita (Lefèvre, 1877)</p><p>(Figs. 1e, 5i)</p><p>New species record: JGZC: female (JGZC-1304), Río San Juan, El Castillo, refugio <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-84.33676&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=10.976996" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -84.33676/lat 10.976996)">Bartola</a>, 10°58′37.19″N 84°20′12.33″W, 79 m, 3–6 November 2008, J.-M. Maes leg., Spintherophyta ignita (Lef.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022 .</p><p>Lefèvre (1877) described Chrysodina ignita, one of the largest (4.0– 4.5 mm) species of Chrysodina, of golden purple color, with metallic legs and four basal antennomeres pale, darkened dorsally on scape. Jacoby (1881) commented on the possibility that this species could be the same as C. fuscitarsis Lefèvre, 1877, also metallic purple dorsally, but slightly smaller (3.5–4.0 mm) and with five basal antennomeres fulvous and tarsi and apex of tibiae darker. Bechyné (1951) recognized dark violaceous forms of C. ignita in Costa Rica (=ab. supraviolacea). The specimen from Nicaragua, which fits the description of Spintherophyta, is a large (4.7 mm) female, dark violaceous blue, with four pale antennomeres basally and scape with a dark dorsal spot, and can be tentatively classified as Spintherophyta ignita (Lefèvre) . We document it here (Fig. 1e) as well as the type of spermatheca (Fig. 5i) to assist its interpretation in the future. This species has been reported from Mexico and Costa Rica (Bechyné 1951; Flowers 1996) and the Nicaraguan record would help bridging the gap between these distant localities.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C10085647FC8D5E76B794C6CF	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús;Maes, Jean-Michel	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Maes, Jean-Michel (2022): New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America. Neotropical Entomology 51 (5): 705-721, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2
03CF879C10085640FC8D5BD5B13DC663.text	03CF879C10085640FC8D5BD5B13DC663.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Spintherophyta minuta (Jacoby 1881)	<div><p>Spintherophyta minuta (Jacoby, 1881)</p><p>(Figs. 1f, 3e, 5j)</p><p>New species record: JGZC: (1) female (JGZC-2612), Rivas, Cárdenas, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.55123&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.23345" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.55123/lat 11.23345)">Finca Isla Vista</a>, 11.23345 -85.55123, 56 m, 6 February 2012, A. Cardoso, G. De la Cadena, J.-M. Maes &amp; A. Papadopoulou leg., Spintherophyta minuta (Jac.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (2) female (JGZC-2626), Rivas, Cárdenas, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.55388&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.23527" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.55388/lat 11.23527)">Finca Sierra Serena</a>, 11.23527 -85.55388, 69 m, 7 February 2012, A. Cardoso, G. De la Cadena, J.-M. Maes &amp; A. Papadopoulou leg., Spintherophyta minuta (Jac.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (3) female (JGZC-1308) and males (JGZC-1298, JGZC-1310), Rivas, Sapoa, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.68079&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.179983" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.68079/lat 11.179983)">Finca Guadalupe</a>, 11.179983 -85.6807925, 290 m, 15 September 2009, J.-M. Maes leg., Spintherophyta minuta (Jac.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (4) female (JGZC-2631), Rivas, Sapoa, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.67619&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.18847" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.67619/lat 11.18847)">Finca Guadalupe</a>, 11.18847 -85.67619, 157 m, 9 February 2012, A. Cardoso, G. De la Cadena, J.-M. Maes &amp; A. Papadopoulou leg., Spintherophyta minuta (Jac.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022.</p><p>Jacoby (1881, p. 110) described Chrysodina minuta from Guatemala, not to be confounded with Lamprosphaerus minutus described from the same country (p. 113), the latter having been already reported from Nicaragua (Maes and Staines 1991). Relative to the former, the author expressed doubts about its correct generic placement, mainly because of its relatively elongate shape and long prosternum, which did not fit his concept of Chrysodina (Jacoby 1890) . Lefèvre (1889a) transferred Jacoby’s taxon to Lamprosphaerus without justification, but Jacoby (1890) was not satisfied with this decision, highlighting that the enlarged apical antennomeres of his species were not characteristic of Lamprosphaerus . Bechyné (1953) proposed a new combination with Nodonota, and years later to Antitypona, but without any justification (Bechyné 1955). Flowers (1996) treated most Chrysodina described by Jacoby as Spintherophyta, including C. minuta . The specimens collected in Nicaragua (Fig. 1f) agree well with the type of C. minuta, also in the shape of their antennae, with short antennomeres 3 and 4 and a markedly enlarged second antennomere, characteristic of Central American Spintherophyta; they also show clear microreticulation on head and pronotum, even though the dorsal tinge is of a stronger green and blue hue compared with the type. Thus, we tend to agree with Flowers’ (1996) assessment for this species and retain it in Spintherophyta, and take the opportunity to illustrate the penis (Fig. 3e) and spermatheca (Fig. 5j) of this species for the first time. S. minuta is only known from Guatemala, and the Nicaraguan records, all found in the south of the country, represent a remarkable expansion of the known range of the species.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C10085640FC8D5BD5B13DC663	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús;Maes, Jean-Michel	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Maes, Jean-Michel (2022): New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America. Neotropical Entomology 51 (5): 705-721, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2
03CF879C100F5641FF645B4CB13BC62E.text	03CF879C100F5641FF645B4CB13BC62E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Talurus tortonesei (Bechyne 1957)	<div><p>Talurus tortonesei (Bechyné, 1957)</p><p>(Figs. 3f, 4e, 5k)</p><p>Confirmation records: JGZC: (1) 3 females (JGZC-1205, JGZC-1207, JGZC-1217) and 2 males (JGZC-1208, JGZC-1209, JGZC-1219), Granada, Reserva Silvestre Privada Domitila, May 2010, J.-M. Maes leg., Talurus tortonesei Bech. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (2) 7 females (JGZC-1943, JGZC-1945 to JGZC-1950), Granada, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.96158&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.771275" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.96158/lat 11.771275)">Reserva Natural Lagunas de Mecatepe y Río Manares</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.96158&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.771275" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.96158/lat 11.771275)">Hacienda Las Plazuelas</a>, 11°46′16.59″N 85°57′41.68″W, 62 m, June 2011, J.-M. Maes leg., Talurus tortonesei Bech. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022. MEL: (1) 1 ex., Chinandega, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.97367&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=12.666235" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.97367/lat 12.666235)">Pikin Guerrero</a>, 12.666235 -86.973671, 560 m, June 1994, on Phaseolus reticulatus, J. Munguia leg.; (2) 3 exx., Granada, Volcán Mombacho, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.98887&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.825672" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.98887/lat 11.825672)">Finca San Joaquín</a>, 11.825672 -85.988872, 650 m, trampa Malaise en cultivo orgánico de café, 30 June 1998, J.-M. Maes leg.; (3) 1 ex., Granada, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.963135&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.827567" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.963135/lat 11.827567)">Volcán Mombacho</a>, 11.827567 -85.963137, 1100 m, July 2002, bosque de neblina, L. Huez leg.; (4) 8 exx., Granada, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.94916&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.701478" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.94916/lat 11.701478)">Reserva Domitila</a>, 11.701478 -85.949158, 55 m, May 2005, J.-M. Maes leg.; (5) 5 exx., #5, idem, 10–14 June 2007, Talurus tortonesi R. Westerduijn det. 2020 and W. Flowers det. 2020; (6) 3 exx., #151, idem, June 2008, Talurus tortonesi W. Flowers det. 2020; (7) 1 ex., León, cra. a Poneloya, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.96665&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=12.350003" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.96665/lat 12.350003)">El Carmen</a>, 12.350003 -86.966653, 10 m, 1 July 1983, on Pithecelobium dulce ( Mimosaceae), J.-M. Maes leg., Eumolpinae I. Askevold det. 1987; (8) 1 ex., #168, León, 12.437571 -86.874655, 110 m, 22 June 1986, sobre pipian, R. Cisneros leg., Talurus salvini I. Askevold det. 1987, Talurus tortonesi W. Flowers det. 2020; (9) 3 exx., León, 12.437571 -86.874655, 110 m, May 1988, J.-M. Maes leg.; (10) 6 exx., idem, July 1989; (11) 1 ex., idem, July 1992; (12) 2 exx., #166, idem, May 1993, J.-M. Maes &amp; J. Téllez leg., Talurus tortonesi W. Flowers det. 2020; (13) 1 ex., idem, June 1993; (14) 2 exx., idem, August 1997, J.-M. Maes leg.; (15) 1 ex., León, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.87466&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=12.437571" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.87466/lat 12.437571)">Museo Entomológico</a>, 12.437571 -86.874655, 110 m, June 1995, J.-M. Maes leg.; (16) 1 ex., idem, May 1999; (17) 1 ex., idem, 5 June 2000; (18) 1 ex., León, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.87328&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=12.43274" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.87328/lat 12.43274)">Centro de Iniciativa Medio Ambiental (CIMAC)</a>, 12.432740 -86.873283, 96 m, 20 June 2000, trampa de luz, M. Torres leg.; (19) 8 exx., idem, 24 June 2000, M. Torres &amp; B. Hernández leg.; (20) 1 ex., León, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.90205&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=12.435225" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.90205/lat 12.435225)">Colegio Manuel Ignacio Lacayo</a>, 12.435225 -86.902045, 83 m, 28 May 1988, on Zea mays, J.-M. Maes leg.; (21) 3 exx., León, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.676216&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=12.343411" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.676216/lat 12.343411)">La Paz Centro</a>, 12.343411 -86.676218, 80 m, 19 May 1995, plaga de soja; (22) 1 ex., Managua, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.236176&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=12.114993" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.236176/lat 12.114993)">La Morita</a>, 12.114993 -86.236174, 160 m, 29 June 1959, sobre hoja de frijol, J. Morales leg.; (23) 1 ex., Managua, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.16134&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=12.147945" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.16134/lat 12.147945)">Universidad Nacional Agraria</a>, La Calera, 12.147945 -86.161338, 56 m, 23 July 1962, sobre frijol, L. Saenz leg.; (24) 1 ex., #145, Managua, Mateare, 12.234602 -86.431384, 70 m, 27 October 1994, on Jatropha curcas, C. Grimm leg., Talurus tortonesi W. Flowers det. 2020; (25) 278 exx, #1–#4, Managua, cra. Managua-León, km 23, 12.268424 -86.480057, 50 m, 27 June 1997, sobre Gliricidia sepium, J.-M. Maes &amp; V. Thompson leg., Talurus tortonesi W. Flowers det. 2020; (26) 5 exx., Managua, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.46017&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=12.075308" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.46017/lat 12.075308)">Finca La Chinampa</a>, 12.075308 -86.460169, 230 m, 28–29 September 2001, J.-M. Maes leg.; (27) 17 exx., Masaya, Las Flores, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.02084&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=12.003716" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.02084/lat 12.003716)">Finca Téllez</a>, 12.003716 -86.020843, 100 m, June 1987, trampa de luz, J.-M. Maes leg. [one, #158, with: Talurus tortonesi W. Flowers det. 2020]; (28) 14 exx., #165, idem, June 1993, trampa de luz, Lecocq &amp; Cantamessa leg., Talurus tortonesi W. Flowers det. 2020; (29) 4 exx., idem, sobre frijol; (30) 103 exx., #6–#7, #146 and #148–#150, idem, 30 May 1994, trampa de luz, J.-M. Maes &amp; J. Hernández leg., Talurus tortonesi R. Westerduijn det. 2020, Talurus tortonesi W. Flowers det. 2020; (31) 1 ex., idem, 5 June 1994, J.-M. Maes, J. Téllez &amp; J. Hernández leg., Talurus tortonesi R. W. Flowers det.; (32) 1 ex., idem, 15 June 1994, J.-M. Maes leg.; (33) 1 ex., idem, 8 July 1994, trampa de luz, J.-M. Maes &amp; J. Hernández leg.; (34) 5 exx., idem, 18 June 1995, J. Hernández leg.; (35) 2 exx., idem, May 2000, M. Téllez leg.; (36) 3 exx., idem, June 2000, B. Téllez leg.; (37) 2 exx., #153, idem, 25 September 2003, S. Téllez leg., Talurus tortonesi W. Flowers det. 2020; (38) 1 ex., idem, June 2009, S. Téllez leg.; (39) 1 ex., Matagalpa, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.46076&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=12.83832" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.46076/lat 12.83832)">Matiguas</a>, 12.838320 -85.460764, 300 m, 15 August 1983, en pasto, A. Castillo leg.; (40) 10 exx., #272 and #273, Nueva Segovia, Santa Clara, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.239784&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=13.750511" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.239784/lat 13.750511)">San Nicolás</a>, 13.750511 -86.239781, 670 m, 24 Jun 2008, trampa de luz, F. Muñoz leg.; (41) 2 exx., #167, Rivas, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.83423&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.438137" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.83423/lat 11.438137)">Escuela Internacional de Agricultura y Ganadería</a>, 11.438137 -85.834226, 67 m, 13 August 1971, sobre maíz, L. Saenz leg., Talurus tortonesi W. Flowers det. 2020.</p><p>This species of Talurus Lefèvre, 1889b, which was originally described from Corinto, a coastal locality of Chinandega (Nicaragua), is common and widespread in Nicaragua, although Maes and Staines (1991) missed reporting it in their catalog. While this is not a proper new country record, we take the opportunity to amend the previous catalog with our own records of this species in Nicaragua, including illustrations of habitus (Fig. 4e) and genitalia (Figs. 3f and 5k). This species is also important for another reason. T. rugosus (Jacoby, 1882), described from Mexico, has been reported as a pest of different crops across Central America (e.g., Coto et al. 1995), and there has been a trend to automatically refer all Talurus found attacking crops to this species, including in Nicaragua (e.g., Maes and Staines 1991). However, based on our assessment, all the available specimens of Talurus from Nicaragua, which display quite a range of chromatic alternatives, actually belong to T. tortonesei Bechyné, and perhaps other country records also need a reassessment (e.g., Van Roie et al. 2019). Bechyné (1957) detailed the main differences between the two species, where the most remarkable would include the preapical enlargement of protibiae in T. tortonesei, against the straight tibiae of T. rugosus, but also the finer, denser punctation on pronotum and a less transverse pronotum in the case of T. tortonesei .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C100F5641FF645B4CB13BC62E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús;Maes, Jean-Michel	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Maes, Jean-Michel (2022): New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America. Neotropical Entomology 51 (5): 705-721, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2
03CF879C100E5641FF645BB4B794C361.text	03CF879C100E5641FF645BB4B794C361.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Tijucana vitticollis (Jacoby 1882)	<div><p>Tijucana vitticollis (Jacoby, 1882)</p><p>(Figs. 2c, 6c)</p><p>New genus and species record: JGZC: female (JGZC-1305), <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-84.33676&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=10.976996" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -84.33676/lat 10.976996)">Río San Juan</a>, El Castillo, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-84.33676&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=10.976996" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -84.33676/lat 10.976996)">Refugio Bartola</a>, 10°58′37.19″N 84°20′12.33″W, 79 m, 3–6 November 2009, J.-M. Maes leg., Tijucana vitticollis (Jac.) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022. MEL: 1 ex., #223, Río San Juan, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-84.33889&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=10.972221" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -84.33889/lat 10.972221)">Refugio Bartola</a>, 10.972221 -84.33889, 40 m, 16–20 June 2007, J.-M. Maes leg.</p><p>Tijucana Bechyné, 1957 is a small genus that was proposed based on eyes strongly emarginate internally and reduced anterior prosternal lobes, and it only contains three known species (Bechyné 1958): one from Brasil (State of Rio de Janeiro), one from Bolivia, and one that was known from Panama and later found in Costa Rica (Flowers 1996). The presence of T. vitticollis in rainforests of the south of Nicaragua (Fig. 6c), close to the border with Costa Rica, slightly expands the range of the genus further north. Interestingly, one of the specimens, a female, has abnormally formed apex of right mesotibia and corresponding mesotarsus, where a notable case of trifid tarsal schistomelia can be observed (Fig. 2c). Schistomelia is the division of an appendix in two or more growth axes, and while this type of abnormality typically affects the antennae of many insects, there are relatively few reports of this process affecting the legs of Coleoptera (Ortuño and Ramos Abuín 2008), which makes this observation particularly interesting.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C100E5641FF645BB4B794C361	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús;Maes, Jean-Michel	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Maes, Jean-Michel (2022): New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America. Neotropical Entomology 51 (5): 705-721, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2
03CF879C100E5641FC8D5E76B796C62E.text	03CF879C100E5641FC8D5E76B796C62E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Typophorus apicicornis (Jacoby 1891)	<div><p>Typophorus apicicornis (Jacoby, 1891)</p><p>(Figs. 5l, 6d)</p><p>New species record: JGZC: female (JGZC-2591), Managua, Montelimar, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.8813&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.87659" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.8813/lat 11.87659)">Reserva Natura</a>, 11.87659 -86.88130, 36 m, 24 January 2012, J. Gómez-Zurita, A. Cardoso, G. De la Cadena &amp; A. Papadopoulou leg., Typophorus apicicornis Jac. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022 .</p><p>This species of Typophorus Erichson, 1847, was previously known only from Panama (Bechyné 1953; Flowers 1996), and it is relatively easy to identify based on chromatic pattern. The individuals are dark reddish brown with four darker spots on elytra, which are faint but visible in the Nicaraguan specimen, and the antennae have antennomeres 6–10 black and the remaining antennomeres pale, including the apical one (Fig. 6d). The legs of T. apicicornis are dark reddish brown with apex of tibiae and femora black, a contrast that also occurs in the Nicaraguan specimen although it is difficult to appreciate because of its generalized dark color. Punctation of the Nicaraguan specimen also fits the type. The only specimen available for study is a female and the spermatheca is figured for future reference (Fig. 5l). As with most species reported in this work, the presence of the species in Nicaragua greatly expands the range of the species in a significant part of Central America.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C100E5641FC8D5E76B796C62E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús;Maes, Jean-Michel	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Maes, Jean-Michel (2022): New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America. Neotropical Entomology 51 (5): 705-721, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2
03CF879C100E5642FC8D5BB5B13BC388.text	03CF879C100E5642FC8D5BB5B13BC388.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Typophorus cyanipennis (Lefevre 1876)	<div><p>Typophorus cyanipennis (Lefèvre, 1876)</p><p>(Figs. 5m, 6e)</p><p>New species record: JGZC: female (JGZC-1387), Managua, Montelimar, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.5117&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.862763" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.5117/lat 11.862763)">Reserva Natura</a>, 11.862763 -86.5117021, 69 m, 9 October 2010, J.-M. Maes leg., Typophorus cyanipennis Lef. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022. MEL: 1 ex., #247, Managua, El Crucero, 11.980569 -86.311052, 900 m, 27 June 1997, J.-M. Maes &amp; V. Thompson leg., Typophorus cf. mexicanus R. Westerduijn det. 2020.</p><p>This originally Mexican species of Typophorus has been recognized as allied to another Mexican and Guatemalan species, T. mexicanus Jacoby, 1876 (Jacoby 1882). While it was initially proposed that the reddish legs of the former (at least on femora basally) could distinguish them compared with the dark metallic legs of the latter (Jacoby 1876, 1882), it was subsequently recognized that T. mexicanus could show variability in this trait as well (Jacoby 1891), thus complicating the separation of both species. Both T. cyanipennis and T. mexicanus share their very characteristic chromatic pattern and a tenuous, nearly imperceptible punctation on head and thorax, and faint, sparse punctation on elytra, and they may be indeed conspecific. Jacoby (1891) struggled to keep them separated on the basis of supposedly longer antennae in T. mexicanus . While this issue is settled, the specimens from Nicaragua, including a 4.0 mm long female (Fig. 6e) conforms better to the original description and chromatic traits of T. cyannipennis, also in the smaller size (Lefèvre gave 4.5–6.0 mm for his taxon, and Jacoby 5.3 mm), and considering that Jacoby’s description was published nearly at the end of 1876 (5th December), it is possible that Lefèvre’s taxon would have precedence in case of an eventual synonymy were decided. The spermatheca of one Nicaraguan specimen is figured (Fig. 5m).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C100E5642FC8D5BB5B13BC388	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús;Maes, Jean-Michel	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Maes, Jean-Michel (2022): New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America. Neotropical Entomology 51 (5): 705-721, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2
03CF879C100D5642FF645D1FB771C343.text	03CF879C100D5642FF645D1FB771C343.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Typophorus subbrunneus (Jacoby 1882)	<div><p>Typophorus subbrunneus (Jacoby, 1882)</p><p>(Figs. 3g, 5n, 6f)</p><p>New species record: JGZC: (1) female (JGZC-1896), León, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.914085&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=12.433378" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.914085/lat 12.433378)">Jardín Botánico</a> (bosque de galería), 12.433378 -86.9140889, 50 m [919], 4 August 2011, J.-M. Maes leg., Typophorus subbrunneus Jac. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (2) female (JGZC-1389), Managua, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.50648&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.8662" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.50648/lat 11.8662)">Montelimar</a>, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-86.50648&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.8662" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -86.50648/lat 11.8662)">Reserva Natura</a>, 11.866200 -86.5064809, 74 m, 8 October 2010, J.-M. Maes leg., Typophorus subbrunneus Jac. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (3) female (JGZC-2611) and male (JGZC-2614), Rivas, Cárdenas, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.55123&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.23345" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.55123/lat 11.23345)">Finca Isla Vista</a>, 11.23345 -85.55123, 56 m, 6 February 2012, A. Cardoso, G. De la Cadena, A. Papadopoulou &amp; J.-M. Maes leg., Typophorus subbrunneus Jac. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (4) female (JGZC-2600), idem, 8 February 2012, A. Cardoso, G. De la Cadena, A. Papadopoulou &amp; J.-M. Maes leg., Typophorus subbrunneus Jac. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (5) male (JGZC-2625), Rivas, Cárdenas, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.55388&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.23527" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.55388/lat 11.23527)">Finca Sierra Serena</a>, 11.23527 -85.55388, 69 m, 7 February 2012, A. Cardoso, G. De la Cadena, A. Papadopoulou &amp; J.-M. Maes leg., Typophorus subbrunneus Jac. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022; (6) male (JGZC-2630), Rivas, Sapoa, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-85.67619&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=11.18847" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -85.67619/lat 11.18847)">Finca Guadalupe</a>, 11.18847 -85.67619, 157 m, 9 February 2012, A. Cardoso, G. De la Cadena, A. Papadopoulou &amp; J.-M. Maes leg., Typophorus subbrunneus Jac. J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022.</p><p>This tiny (2.1–2.6 mm) species of Typophorus is relatively easy to recognize because of its brownish color, when many species of Typophorus have bright tones, the impunctate pronotum, and the apex of tibiae and tarsi paler than the remainder of legs (Fig. 6f). The species was reported from Belize and Guatemala (Jacoby 1882; Clavareau 1914; Bechyné 1953; Flowers 1996), and its presence in Nicaragua expands considerably its range south. Together with T. apicicornis reported above, this species presents some structural facial differences relative to typical Typophorus . Most notably, they both have a wide, subparallel, uninterrupted, and, at most, slightly depressed transition between frons and clypeus, lacking the characteristic transverse furrow dividing the frontoclypeus in Typophorus and more in line with the typical facial structure of Paria (Jacoby 1882) . However, these two species have wide, posteriorly enlarged supraocular sulci, characteristic of Typophorus (and lacking in Paria, for example), and for the time being, even though we acknowledge that they will likely require a new generic combination, we chose to treat them in their original genus for stability. We illustrate male genitalia (Fig. 3g) and spermatheca (Fig. 5n) of this species for the first time.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CF879C100D5642FF645D1FB771C343	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús;Maes, Jean-Michel	Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, Maes, Jean-Michel (2022): New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America. Neotropical Entomology 51 (5): 705-721, DOI: 10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2, URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-022-00987-2
