Cephaloleia barroi Uhmann, 1959a

Staines, Charles L. & Garcia-Robledo, Carlos, 2014, The genus Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae), ZooKeys 436, pp. 1-355 : 70-71

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Chrysomelidae

Cephaloleia barroi Uhmann, 1959a Fig. 82

Cephaloleia barroi Uhmann 1959a: 617. Uhmann 1964a: 402 (catalog); Sanderson 1967: 137 (noted); Gaedike and Döbler 1971: 343 (types); Staines 1996: 17 (Central America species), 1997: 413 (Uhmann species list), 1999: 242 (mimicry), 2008: 1 (key), 2009a: 21 (noted); Piña et al. 2004: 106 (faunal list).

Description.

Oval; convex; bright metallic blue; antennae and legs yellow; venter black. Head: vertex densely punctate, medial sulcus absent; frons not projecting; not depressed between eyes. Antenna: reaches to hind margin of pronotum; slender; antennomeres similar in appearance; 1-2 subequal in length, transverse; 3 elongate, as long as 1-2 combined; 4-10 transverse, subequal in length, each shorter than 3; 11 pointed at apex, as long as 3; 1-4 punctate with scattered setae; 5-11 setose. Pronotum: transverse; lateral margin almost straight on basal ⅓, then rounding to anterior angle, strongly margined; anterior angle projecting, narrow; posterior angle angulate; anterior margin emarginate behind head; disc convex; surface finely and moderately punctate; weak impression present on each side; basal impression absent; pronotal length 1.0 mm; pronotal width 1.8 mm. Scutellum: triangular; impunctate. Elytron: lateral margin smooth, finely margined; apex rounded; sutural angle without tooth; humerus rounded, not produced; slightly constricted behind humerus; convex; with fine, dense punctures; scutellar row long; puncture rows converge and unite on apex; interspaces convex; elytral length 3.7 mm; elytral width 2.5 mm. Venter: pro-, meso-, and metasterna punctate; abdominal sterna finely punctate, each puncture with short setae; last sternite with apical margin rounded, weakly emarginate on each side in female; pygidium broadly rounded, finely punctate; last sternite with apical margin shallowly emarginate in male, weakly rounded in female. Leg: slender; protibia with longitudinal groove beneath; tarsi and apex of tibia bright brown; femur robust, punctate; tibia incised at apex, with fringe of setae on inner margin of apex. Total length: 4.8 mm.

Diagnosis.

This species is similar to Cephaloleia sandersoni . It can be distinguished by the densely punctate vertex of the head, by the evenly arcuate lateral margins of the pronotum, and by antennomere 1 being clavate and twice the length of 2.

Distribution.

Cuba.

Type material.

Holotype female: Cuba, Lomas de Trinidad [green label]/ Santa Clara, 12.VIII.1939 [green label]/ 7-6/ Holotypus [red label]/ Cephaloleia barroi Uh., Uhmann det 58 (DEI).

Specimens examined.

CUBA: Lomas de Trinidad, Santa Clara, 12 August 1939 (USNM). Total: 2.