Cephaloleia fulvipes Baly, 1858

Staines, Charles L. & Garcia-Robledo, Carlos, 2014, The genus Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae), ZooKeys 436, pp. 1-355 : 147-148

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Chrysomelidae

Cephaloleia fulvipes Baly, 1858 Fig. 148

Cephalolia fulvipes Baly 1858: 49. Gemminger and Harold 1876: 3601 (catalog); Donckier 1899: 549 (catalog); Weise 1911a: 8 (catalog), 1911b: 12 (catalog).

Cephaloleia fulvipes Baly. Uhmann 1957b: 19 (catalog), 1964b: 20 (faunal list); Staines and Staines 1999: 524 (Baly species list); McKenna and Farrell 2006: 10949 (phylogeny).

Description.

Subelongate; subparallel; subdepressed; head, antennae, pronotum (except paler lateral margins), and scutellum shining black; elytra yellow with apical ½ black, suture darkened at base; venter black, legs dark yellowish. Head: vertex finely, sparsely punctate, medial sulcus absent; frons with longitudinal sulcus, not projecting; not depressed between eyes. Antenna: ½ body length; robust; antennomere 1 subclavate, incrassate, longer than 2; 2 cylindrical, ¾ length of 1; 3-4 cylindrical, elongate, subequal in length, longer than 2; 5-10 transverse, subequal in length, each shorter than 4; 11 2 × 10, rounded at apex; 1-4 punctate with scattered setae; 5-11 setose. Pronotum: subquadrate; lateral margin straight then rounding to anterior angle, narrowly canaliculate; anterior angle obtuse, not produced; posterior angle acute; anterior margin emarginate behind head; disc subconvex; surface strongly irregularly punctate, less so on disc; transverse impression present just behind middle, obsolete medially; pronotal length 1.3-1.5 mm; pronotal width 1.6-1.8 mm. Scutellum: broadly pentagonal; impunctate. Elytron: lateral margin straight, smooth, narrowly margined; apex rounded; sutural angle without tooth; humerus rounded, not produced; slightly constricted behind humerus; flattened at suture; puncture rows near suture nearly obsolete apically, otherwise moderately punctate-striate; elytral length 4.4-4.8 mm; elytral width 2.2-2.6 mm. Venter: pro-, meso-, and metasterna punctate; abdominal sterna punctate, each puncture with pale seta; suture between sterna 1 and 2 obsolete medially; pygidium truncate-emarginate; last sternite with apical margin broadly emarginate and sinuate medially in male, truncate in female. Leg: slender; punctate; femur and tibia with pale seta in each puncture; tibia with fringe of setae on inner margin of apex. Total length: 6.0-6.4 mm.

Diagnosis.

This species is similar to Cephaloleia apicalis . It can be distinguished by the elytral punctures along the suture being obsolete near the apex.

Distribution.

Brazil ( São Paulo), Ecuador.

Type material examined.

Holotype: Brazil [handwritten label]/ Fry coll. [printed label]/ Cephalolia fulvipes Baly, Brazil [blue handwritten label] (BMNH).

Specimens examined.

Brazil: Bahia- no further data (USNM). São Paulo- Cantareira, 29 October 1939 (USNM), 24 December 1939, November 1959 (USNM). ECUADOR: Imbabura- Cachabé, January 1897 (USNM). Total: 25.