Cephaloleia funesta Baly, 1858

Staines, Charles L. & Garcia-Robledo, Carlos, 2014, The genus Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae), ZooKeys 436, pp. 1-355 : 148-150

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Chrysomelidae

Cephaloleia funesta Baly, 1858 Fig. 150

Cephalolia funesta Baly 1858: 59. Gemminger and Harold 1876: 3601 (catalog); Donckier 1899: 549 (catalog); Weise 1905a: 132 (noted), 1906: 221 (museum list), 1911a: 8 (catalog), 1911b: 13 (catalog); Bruch 1915: 375 (faunal list), 1928: 202 (faunal list); Spaeth 1937: 144 (noted); Uhmann 1942 b: 96 (noted); Bosq 1943: 40; Monrós and Viana 1947: 164 (Argentina species).

Cephaloleia funesta Baly. Uhmann 1936b: 116 (museum list), 1938b: 365 (comparative note), 1957b: 19 (catalog), 1957c: 364 (noted), 1964a: 403 (catalog); Gaedike and Döbler 1971: 349 (types); Staines and Staines 1999: 524 (Baly species list); Roig–Juñent 2004: 116 (faunal list); Staines 2004 a: 312 (host plants).

Cephaloleia handschini Uhmann 1948b: 12 (Holotype male: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, VIII.1946, coll. Wygodzinsky [printed label]/ Holotyp [red printed label]/ Cephaloleia handschini Uh., Det. E. Uhmann, DEI). Uhmann 1957b: 20 (catalog), 1957e: 364 (synonymy); Gaedike and Döbler 1971: 350 (types); Staines 1997 b: 413 (Uhmann species list).

Description.

Elongate; subparallel; subdepressed; shining black, basal palpomeres lighter. Head: vertex sparsely punctate, medial sulcus present; interantennal keel present; frons not projecting; depressed between eyes. Antenna: as long as head and pronotum combined; robust; antennomere 1 subclavate, longer than 2; 2 cylindrical; 3 cylindrical, elongate, longest, nearly 2 × length of 2; 4-10 transverse, decreasing in length; 11 2 × length of 10, broadly rounded at apex; 1-4 or 5 punctate with scattered setae; 5 or 6-11 setose. Pronotum: subquadrate; lateral margin straight then rounding to anterior angle, slightly canaliculate; anterior angle obtuse, slightly produced; posterior angle acute; anterior margin emarginate behind head; disc subconvex; surface densely punctate, less so on disc; basal impression absent; pronotal length 1.4-1.6 mm; pronotal width 1.6-1.8 mm. Scutellum: broadly pentagonal; impunctate. Elytron: lateral margin straight, smooth, margined; apex rounded; sutural angle weakly emarginate, with minute tooth; humerus rounded, not produced; slightly constricted behind humerus; subconvex, slightly flattened on disc; punctate-striate, punctures moderately impressed basally, larger and coarser laterally, finer apically; declivity beginning just behind humerus at puncture row 7 edged with faint carina; elytral length 4.5-4.8 mm; elytral width 2.0-2.4 mm. Venter: pro-, meso-, and metasterna punctate; abdominal sterna punctate, each puncture with pale seta; suture between sterna 1 and 2 complete; last sternite with apical margin broadly truncate-emarginate in female. Leg: slender, punctate; femur and tibia with seta in each puncture; tibia with fringe of setae on inner margin of apex. Total length: 5.7-6.1 mm.

Diagnosis.

This species is similar to Cephaloleia impressa and Cephaloleia obsoleta . It can be distinguished by the vertex of the head without a medial sulcus, by the elytra with a declivity beginning at puncture row 7, and by antennomere 1 being longer than 3.

Host plant.

Canna sp. ( Cannaceae ), Maranta divaricata Rosc. ( Marantaceae ), Pharus glaber Kunth. ( Poaceae ), Cordyline sp. ( Agavaceae ) ( Monrós and Viana 1947).

Distribution.

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catharina), Paraguay.

Type material examined.

Holotype female: Brazil [handwritten label]/ Fry Coll. [printed label]/ Cephalolia funesta Baly, Brazil [blue handwritten label] (BMNH).

Specimens examined.

Argentina: Chaco- Resistenica, October-December 1936 (USNM). Corrrientes- 42 km E. Ituzanigo, 23 January 1989 (BYUC). Misiones- no further data (USNM); 1931 (USNM); Dos de Mayo, November 1989 (USNM); Eldorado, 6 November 1992 (USNM); Puerto Igazú, 16 November 1989 (USNM); 19 km S. Wanda, 22 January 1989 (BYUC). Tucuman- Quchada de Jules, 10 August 1952 (USNM). Brazil: no further data (DEI). Rio de Janeiro- no further data (DEI); Muri, 4 February 1952 (USNM). Santa Catharina- Nova Teutonia, September 1967, October 1968 (USNM), September 1976, October 1976, November 1976, December 1976, January 1977, February 1977 (EGRC). Total: 39.