Platyphora testudo ( Demay, 1838 )

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 : 338

Platyphora testudo ( Demay, 1838)

( Figs. 112, 113 )

Doryphora testudo Demay, 1838: 23 (descr.); Gemminger & Harold, 1874: 3454 (cat., distr.); Blackwelder, 1946: 672 (cat., distr.).

Chrysomela testudo ; Stål, 1862: 53 (distr., redescr.).

Doryphora (Doryphora) testudo ; Weise, 1916: 25 (cat., distr.).

Doryphorella testudo Achad, 1923d: 120 (cit., distr.).

Stichotaenia testudo ; Bechyně, 1951a: 77 (distr., tax.); 1952: 13, 52 (cat., distr.); 1954: 644 (distr.).

Platyphora testudo ; Bechyně, 1958b: 22 (distr.); Bechyně & Bechyně, 1965a: 94 (distr.); Husband & Morais, 1999: 309, 313 (par.); Pasteéls et al. 2004: 671 (distr., host); Chaboo et al. 2014: 2330 (distr.); 2019: 712 (cit.); Sampaio & Fonseca, 2023: 59 (cat., distr.), fig. 95 (dorsal view, adult); Sekerka & Sampaio, 2023 (check.).

Doryphora margaritae Blanchard, 1846: 213 (descr., distr.), pl. 25, fig. 2 (dorsal view, adult); Stål, 1862: 53 (syn.); Gemminger & Harold, 1874: 3454 (cat., distr.); Blackwelder, 1946: 672 (cat., distr.); Sampaio & Fonseca, 2023: 59 (cit.).

Doryphora (Doryphora) margaritae ; Weise, 1916: 25 (cat., distr.).

Stichotaenia margaritae ; Bechyně, 1952: 52 (cat., distr.).

Doryphorella testudo var. juncta Achard, 1923d: 120 (descr., distr.); Sampaio & Fonseca, 2023: 60 (cit., syn.).

Doryphora testudo var. juncta ; Blackwelder, 1946: 672 (cat., distr.).

Stichotaenia testudo ab. juncta; Bechyně, 1951a: 77 (distr., tax.); 1952: 52 (cat., distr.).

Type locality: French Guiana.

Distribution: BOLIVIA — Beni: Reyes and Trinidad; La Paz: La paz; Santa Cruz de la Sierra , and Tarija: San Lorenzo. BRAZIL — Acre: Brasiléia (Triunfo); Amazonas: Alto Rio Purus, Benjamin Constant, Borba (Guarajá and Lago do Acará ), Jo„o Pessoa (Rio Juruá) and Tabatinga; Mato Grosso: Salobra; Mato Grosso do Sul: Guaicurus and Miranda; Pará: Óbidos. COLOMBIA. ECUADOR — Pastaza: Puyo. FRENCH GUIANA. PANAMA. PERU — Junín: Chanchamayo; Leoncio Prado: Tingo María (Rio Huallaga); Pasco: Chuchurras and Rio Pichis.

Host plant: Apocynaceae Juss. (ex Asclepiadaceae Turcz. )— Pasteéls et al. (2004).

Parasite: Chrysomelobia peruviensis Husband & Moraes, 1999 ( Acari : Podapolipidae )— Husband & Moraes (1999).

Material examined (2 specimens): BRAZIL. Pará : Óbidos, 2 specimens ( MPEG. HCO 01017391 *–92), 1906, P. Le Cointe 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.