Dinahia Bechyně, 1946

Sampaio, Aline & Fonseca, Claudio Ruy Vasconcelos Da, 2024, Taxonomic review of the monotypic genus Dinahia Bechyně, 1946 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae), Zootaxa 5419 (1), pp. 130-138 : 131

Dinahia Bechyně, 1946

( Figs. 1 – 26)

Dinahia Bechyně, 1946: 124 (descr.); 1952: 26 (cat., distr.).

Type species: Dinahia privigna ( Stål, 1859) , by monotypy.

Diagnosis: Reddish brown, light brown, and/or dark brown body, with yellowish or light brown elytra with eight reddish brown and dark brown stripes, arranged longitudinally. Prosternal process with a keel extending from base to apex; short and slightly oblique mesoventral process; prominent metaventral process with rounded margins. Aedeagus with lateroventral plate ventrally invaginated in the apical region, convex ventroapical region, emarginate apical end, and endophallus with long, curved flagellum, enlarged at the apex. Spermatheca with laterally inserted spermatic duct, wavy and usually medially curled.

Figures

FIGURE 1. 1–14, female of Dinahia privigna (Stål, 1859), 1, dorsal view, 2, ventral view, 3, lateral view, 4, front view, 5, prosternal, mesoventral and metaventral process, 6–7, spermatheca and spermatic duct, 8, dorsal view, 9, ventral view, 10, lateral view, 11, front view, 12, prosternal, mesoventral and metaventral process, 13–14, spermatheca and spermatic duct; 15–17, male of D. privigna, 15, dorsal view, 16, ventral view, 17, lateral view. Scale bar: Figs. 1–4 (1 mm), 5–7 (0,1 mm), 8–11 (1 mm), 12–14 (0,1 mm), 15–17 (1 mm).