Cephaloleia lateralis Baly, 1885

Staines, Charles L. & Garcia-Robledo, Carlos, 2014, The genus Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae), ZooKeys 436, pp. 1-355 : 171

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Chrysomelidae

Cephaloleia lateralis Baly, 1885 Fig. 172

Cephaloleia lateralis Baly 1885: 17. Blackwelder 1946: 719 (catalog); Papp 1953: 18 (catalog); Uhmann 1957a: 21 (catalog); Wilcox 1983: 137 (catalog); Staines 1996: 41 (Central America species); Staines and Staines 1999: 524 (Baly species list).

Cephalolia lateralis Baly. Donckier 1899: 549 (catalog); Weise 1911a: 8 (catalog), 1911b: 12 (catalog).

Description.

Small; elongate; subconvex; yellowish; eyes pale, outlined in black; antennomeres 2-11 darker; pronotum with medial black wedge-shaped macula from base to apex, widest at base, narrows anteriorly; scutellum dark brown; elytra dark brownish medially; venter with prosternum reddish-yellow medially, dark laterally; mesosternum reddish-brown medially, dark laterally Head: vertex punctate, medial sulcus absent; frons not projecting; not depressed between eyes. Antenna: more than ½ body length; slender; elongate; antennomere 1 transverse, short, ¾ length of 2; 2 transverse, longer than 1; 3 elongate, as long as 1-2 combined; 4-5 subequal in length, ¾ length 3; rest missing from holotype; 1-2 punctate with scattered setae; 3-5 setose. Pronotum: transverse; lateral margin straight for basal ⅔ then rounding to anterior angle, margined; anterior angle produced, rounded; posterior angle acute; anterior margin emarginate behind head; disc subconvex; surface finely punctate, more dense laterally; basal impression absent; pronotal length 1.5 mm; pronotal width 0.8 mm. Scutellum: pentagonal; micropunctate. Elytron: lateral margin smooth, dilated apically, slightly margined; apex rounded, subangulate, emarginate in sutural angle, with small tooth; humerus rounded, not produced; slightly constricted behind humerus; convex, slightly flattened at suture; moderately punctate-striate, converge and unite on apex; elytral length 3.7 mm; elytral width 2.0 mm. Venter: abdominal sterna punctate, each puncture with seta; suture between sterna 1 and 2 obsolete for entire length; rest obscured by card. Leg: slender; impunctate; tibia with fringe of setae on inner apical margin. Total length: 4.8 mm.

Diagnosis.

This species is similar to Cephaloleia discoidalis . It can be distinguished by the emarginate sutural angle of the elytra.

Distribution.

Guatemala.

Type material examined.

Holotype: Type H. T. [white disk with red border]/ Pancina, Vera Paz, Champion [printed label]/ B.C.A. Col. VI, 2. Cephaloleia lateralis Baly [printed label]/ Cephaloleia lateralis Baly, Guatemala [blue handwritten label] (BMNH).