Dinophthalma Lacordaire, 1848

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 : 17-18

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scientific name	Dinophthalma Lacordaire, 1848
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Treatment

Dinophthalma Lacordaire, 1848 Fig. 8

Dinophthalma Lacordaire 1848: 400; Chapuis 1874: 145; Jacoby and Clavareau 1906: 67; Guérin 1943: 47; Monrós 1953a: 143.

Type species.

Dinophthalma ophthalmica Lacordaire, 1848 designated by Monrós (1953a: 143).

Diagnosis.

Small body size (less than 7 mm). This genus is very similar to Temnodachrys , from which it can be easily separated by the extraordinary development of the eyes, which are protruding and reaching the lateral margins of the head. Also, antennae with antennomere III large, conical; pronotum transverse; elytra without callus.

Distribution.

Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina.

Argentinian species checklist.

Dinophthalma amplicollis Monrós, 1953 (MNS).

Dinophthalma discicollis consimilis Baly, 1877a (FOR, MNS).

= Dinophthalma consimilis Baly, 1877a.

= Babia pallidipennis Guérin, 1943.