Platyphora quatuordecimspilota ( Guérin-Méneville, 1844 )

Sampaio, Aline, Viana, Jéssica Herzog & Fonseca, Claudio Ruy Vasconcelos Da, 2024, Catalog of the Chrysomelinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) deposited in the entomological collections of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG) and the Universidade do Estado do Pará (UEPA), Belém, Brazil, Zootaxa 5447 (3), pp. 301-354 : 335-336

Platyphora quatuordecimspilota ( Guérin-Méneville, 1844)

( Figs. 106, 107 )

Doryphora 14-spilota Guérin-Méneville, 1844: 299 (descr., distr.).

Chrysomela 14-spilota; Stål, 1862: 61 (distr. redescr.).

Doryphora quatuordecimspilota ; Gemminger & Harold, 1874: 3453 (cat., distr.); Blackwelder, 1946: 671 (cat., distr.).

Doryphora (Doryphora) quatuordecimspilota ; Weise, 1916: 23 (cat., distr.).

Stichotaenia 14-spilota; Bechyně, 1950b: 121 (distr.), fig. 1 (left tibia, male); 1954: 647 (distr.), tafel 29, fig. 8 (dorsal view, adult).

Stichotaenia quatuordecimspilota ; Bechyně, 1952: 51 (cat., distr.).

Platyphora quatuordecimspilota ; Sampaio & Fonseca, 2023: 55 (cat., distr.), fig. 93 (dorsal view, adult); Sekerka & Sampaio, 2023 (check.).

Type locality: Brazil — Maranh „o: most likely the capital city S„o Luís.

Distribution: BRAZIL — Bahia: Salvador; Ceará: Pacatuba (Monte Alegre and Serra da Aratanha ) and Redenç„o; Goiás: Araguacema; Maranh„o: Caxias and Lago Verde; Paraíba: Cacimba de Dentro and Dami„o; Pernambuco: Buíque and Sertânea; Piauí: Bom Jesus and Teresina (Bioparque Zoobotânico); Rio Grande do Norte: Baixa Verde.

Material examined (1 specimen): BRAZIL. Maranh „o: Lago Verde, 1 specimen ( MPEG. HCO 01051486 ), 13. III. 1982, W. L. Overal leg. ( MPEG) .

Figures

FIGURES 98–113. 98–99, Platyphora kollari (Stål, 1858), 98, dorsal view, 99, ventral view; 100–101, Platyphora maculata (Olivier, 1791), 100, dorsal view, 101, ventral view; 102–103, Platyphora modesta (Baly, 1878), 102, dorsal view, 103, ventral view; 104–105, Platyphora quadrisignata (Germar, 1823), 104, dorsal view, 105, ventral view; 106–107, Platyphora quatuordecimspilota (Guérin-Méneville, 1844), 106, dorsal view, 107, ventral view; 108–109, Platyphora rubropunctata rubropunctata (DeGeer, 1775), 108, dorsal view, 109, ventral view; 110–111, Platyphora sapphirina (Forster, 1771), 110, dorsal view, 111, ventral view; 112–113, Platyphora testudo (Demay, 1838), 112, dorsal view, 113, ventral view. Scale bar: 1 mm.