Bruchia Weise 1906

Staines, C. L., 2007, A review of the genus Bruchia Weise 1906 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae), Zootaxa 1449 (1), pp. 45-50 : 45-46

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1449.1.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D2E14247-E8BC-4C2D-B8E1-8AA61355D305
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5077488
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038687E2-1652-FFE0-0480-7A9A03C6FF12
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Bruchia Weise 1906
status

Treatment

Bruchia Weise 1906 View in CoL

Bruchia Weise 1906: 227 View in CoL . Type species Bruchia sparsa Weise View in CoL by monotypy. Weise 1910: 145, 1911a: 30 (catalog), 1911b: 43 (catalog); Uhmann 1933: 80, 1937: 336 (key to species), 1957: 115 (catalog); Blackwelder 1946: 729 (faunal list); Monrós & Viana 1947: 259 (redescription); Papp 1953: 90 (catalog); Wilcox 1975: 144 (faunal list); Seeno & Wilcox 1982: 160 (catalog); Staines 2002: 755 (redescription).

Bruchiella Weise 1916: 39 (invalid replacement name for Bruchia View in CoL ); Bruch 1928: 202 (synonymy); Uhmann 1932: 37.

Head: medial sulcus present. Antenna: 7-segmented; antennomeres I to V very sharp, gradually widening after III; I to III short, transverse; IV to V very short, strongly transverse; VI as long and wider than preceding two combined, as wide as VII; VII subovate, pointed at apex. Pronotum: narrow, width at base and apex equal; lateral margin deflexed, nearly parallel-sided; disc convex, regularly subseriate-punctate; medial line finely impressed. Scutellum: small. Elytron: three times as long as pronotum, slightly convex; apex conjointly rounded; with 8 rows of punctures; lightly bicostate, costae interrupted, transversely united before apex.

The genitalia of Bruchia species were examined. As is the rule in hispines, they are of no taxonomic value.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Chrysomelidae