Agenysa caedemadens (Lichtenstein, 1796)

Sekerka, Lukáš, 2020, Commented catalogue of Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, with remarks on the collection of Jaro Mráz in the National Museum in Prague, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 60 (2), pp. 667-707 : 690

Agenysa caedemadens (Lichtenstein, 1796)

Published records. ‘Copla do Alto [= Capela do Alto]’; ‘ Sao Paulo Sitio [=? São Paulo Capital]’ (Bඈඋඈඐංൾർ 1996, as A. guianiensis ( Boheman, 1857)) .

Distribution. Argentina, Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Pará,? São Paulo), Curaçao, French Guiana, Suriname, and Venezuela.

Remarks. Agenysa guianiensis was recently synonymized with A. caedemadens as it is only a uniformly metallic-coloured form of the same species. It is distributed primarily in the Guiana Shield and the Lower Amazon Basin, and records from the interior of South America were rejected (SൾΚൾඋΚൺ 2016). The species was recorded from São Paulo only once based on seven specimens collected by E. Rivier in 1976 (Bඈඋඈඐංൾർ 1996). Indeed, they could have been mislabelled but probably not as in the same paper, there are published many specimens of other species collected by E. Rivier in São Paulo, and all are reasonable records with the exception of A. guianiensis . Unfortunately, I have not had the opportunity to examine these specimens yet, thus the occurrence of A. caedemadens should be considered dubious until more material is found.