Stoiba lurida (Suffrian, 1868)

Shin, Chulwoo & Chaboo, Caroline S., 2012, A revision and phylogenetic analysis of Stoiba Spaeth 1909 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), ZooKeys 224, pp. 1-36 : 16

Stoiba lurida (Suffrian, 1868)

Chelymorpha lurida Suffrian 1868: 240 [original description]; Gemminger and Harold 1876: 3640 [catalog]; Leng and Mutchler 1914: 458 [list of the West Indies Coleoptera ]; Spaeth 1914: 59 [catalog]; Blackwelder 1946: 745 [checklist]; Wilcox 1975: 152 [checklist].

Stoiba lurida : Borowiec 1999: 131 [catalog]; Takizawa 2003: 106 [checklist-misspelled]; Borowiec and Świętojańska 2012 [online catalog].

Type material.

Unknown

Type locality.

“Cuba”

Description

(from original description by Suffrian 1868). Adult length 9.0 mm, width 7.4 mm. Stoiba lurida is generally similar to large size of Stoiba flavicollis , but Stoiba lurida shows brownish yellow pronotum when it is dried and shows gold shimmering in fresh specimens; pronotal and elytral margins more coarsely and roughly punctate. Sometimes it was identified as Calligrapha spiraeae (Say) in North America. Body slightly oval, convex, broadest within anterior half of elytra, dark reddish brown, opalescent with punctures on lateral margins of pronotum and elytra. Pronotum with posterior margin broad, flat; disc finely and sparsely punctate, lateral margin slightly more punctate. Elytra with posterior half of lateral margin not clearly explanate; lateral decline margin area slightly more punctate than raised edge area. Ventral surface (abdomen) brownish yellow to reddish yellow.

Distribution.

“Cuba”