Alurnus boucardi Rosenberg 1898

Staines, C. L., 2013, A review of the genus Alurnus Fabricius, 1775 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae), Insecta Mundi 2013 (291), pp. 1-34 : 8-9

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5175823

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5188039

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scientific name

Alurnus boucardi Rosenberg 1898
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Alurnus boucardi Rosenberg 1898 View in CoL

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Alurnus boucardi Rosenberg 1898: 94 View in CoL [holotype: Colombia / F. C. Bowditch Coll./ M.C.Z. type 25813 (red label)/ A. boucardi Rosenberg View in CoL type (MCZC)]. Donckier 1899: 613 (catalog); Jacobson 1899(1900): x (noted); Weise 1910: 103 (key), 1911a: 13 (catalog), 1911b: 20 (catalog); Fischer 1935: 276 (revision); Blackwelder 1946: 721 (faunal list); Papp 1953: 31 (catalog); Uhmann 1957a: 37 (catalog).

Alurnus boulardi Rosenberg. Haitlinger 1989: 286 (lapsus calami, mites); Santiago and Fain 1994: 410 (mites).

Description. Head, pronotum, legs, scutellum, and venter black; elytra yellow, with large irregularly shaped black spot present behind middle. Head: vertex without sulcus, slightly depressed between eyes; surface rugosely punctate in front. Antenna: antennomere 1 cylindrical, thick; 2 shorter than 1; 3 more than 2.5x length of 1 and 2 combined; 4-10 decreasing in length; 11 longer than 10, rounded at apex; punctate, each puncture with pale seta. Pronotum: lateral margin bisinuate; anterior angle obtuse; posterior angle acute; basal half slightly depressed laterally; rugosely punctate basally, punctate apically; subtuberculate laterally; glabrous; pronotal length 4 mm; pronotal width 5-6 mm. Scutellum: cordate; densely punctate. Elytra: lateral and apical margins smooth, slightly explanate; sutural angle with small tooth; humerus produced, rounded; surface coarsely punctate, becoming more finely punctate toward apex; faint costa present from humerus to just beyond middle, curving toward suture; elytral width 12-14 mm; elytral length 24-27 mm. Leg: sparsely punctate, each puncture with pale seta; base of tibia with fringe of pale setae on inner margin; tarsal setae light brown. Venter: pro-, meso-, and metasterna punctate, each puncture with pale seta; abdominal sterna 1 and 5 punctate, each puncture with pale seta; sterna 2-4 impunctate basally, with row of punctures with pale seta apically. Total length: 30-33 mm.

Larval host plant. Unknown.

Distribution. Colombia, Panama.

Specimens examined. no data ( BMNH, 1) Colombia. No data ( USNM, 3; FMNH, 1; AMNH, 1; BMNH, 2; MCZC, 4). Antioquia: N. Granade ( USNM, 1; BMNH, 1) ; Rio Opón , 20.xii.1947 ( AMNH, 1) ; Alto Rio Opón, 900 m, 16.vi.1948 ( AMNH, 1). Cauca: Rio Dagua ( PSUC, 1). Vaupes: Rio Mitú ( PSUC, 1). Boyaca: vii.1936 ( USNM, 1). Panama. Darien: no further data ( BMNH, 1). Panama: Serro Campana, 750 m, 18.vi.1996 ( HPSC, 1). Total: 21 .

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

FMNH

Field Museum of Natural History

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

PSUC

Frost Entomological Museum, Penn State University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Genus

Alurnus

Loc

Alurnus boucardi Rosenberg 1898

Staines, C. L. 2013
2013
Loc

Alurnus boulardi Rosenberg. Haitlinger 1989: 286

Haitlinger, R. 1989: 286
1989
Loc

Alurnus boucardi

Uhmann, E. 1957: 37
Papp, C. S. 1953: 31
Blackwelder, R. E. 1946: 721
Fischer, C. R. 1935: 276
Weise, J. 1910: 103
Donckier de Donceel, H. 1899: 613
Rosenberg, W. F. 1898: 94
1898
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