Labasiella, Spinola, 1849

Opitz, Weston, 2019, ClassiIication, Natural History, and Evolution oI the SubIamily Peloniinae OPITZ (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Cleridae). Part XIII. The New World genera oI checkered beetles of the Labasiella complex, Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (1), pp. 127-170 : 139

Genus Labasiella SPINOLA, 1849

CORPORAAL 1950: 307 (Cregya). OPITZ 2017a: 62.

Type species: Labasiella varipennis SPINOLA 1849: 409. By original designation.

J u n i o r S y n o n y m: Exochonotus BARR 1980: 179. Type species: Lebasiella varipennis SPINOLA, nov.syn.

Diagnosis: The tubercles on the pronotal disc are found in Labasiella SPINOLA and Oncochelyna OPITZ. Labasiella specimens show a subsecuriform ( Fig. 54B ) terminal maxillary and labial palpomere. These structures are strongly securiform in Oncochelyna.

Description: This genus was adequately described in OPITZ (2017a: 62). Additional characteristics are: Pronotal sides reticulated and elytral posterior slope gradual ( OPITZ 2017: 111).

Figures

Figs 44-56: Various organs. 44-52 Pronota. (44) Silvanoclerus beechi. (45) Labasiella bimaculate. (46) L. boyaca. (47) L. Cochabamba. (48) L. mcclarini. (49) L. eugeniae. (50) L. robles. (51) L. solervicensi. (52) L. transversalis. 53-54 Heads. (53) Inconnexus lunarus. (54) Silvanoclerus dilatus. 54A-54B Generalized shape of the last maxillary palpomeres. (54A) Securiform. (54B) subsecuriform. 55-56 Mesodermal reproductive organs of Amphelissus meieri. (55) Female. (56) Male.