Babia (Coleolacordairei) Moldenke, 1981

Agrain, Federico A., Chamorro, Maria Lourdes, Cabrera, Nora, Sassi, Davide & Roig-Junent, Sergio, 2017, A comprehensive guide to the Argentinian case-bearer beetle fauna (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Camptosomata), ZooKeys 677, pp. 11-88 : 16

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scientific name	Babia (Coleolacordairei) Moldenke, 1981
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Treatment

Babia (Coleolacordairei) Moldenke, 1981 Fig. 5

Type species.

Babia elongata Guérin, 1945. By monotypy.

Diagnosis.

This subgenus can be reliably diagnosed by the shape of anterior margin of pronotum, which is arcuate, and covers the entire head in dorsal view. Also, body shape is elongate (length 3x width), cylindrical and flat; frons is flat; lateral margin of prothorax not widely explanate.

Distribution.

Brazil and Argentina.

Remarks.

Moldenke (1981), mentioned the size of this species to be greater than 10 mm, but average size is smaller than 10 mm.

Argentinian species checklist.

1. Babia (Coleolacordairei) elongata Guérin, 1945 (BAS, COR, ERS, JUY, LRA, RNO, SAL, SFE, TUC). Host plant: Fabaceae : Acacia sp. ( Monrós 1953a).