Cephaloleia suaveola Baly, 1885

Staines, Charles L. & Garcia-Robledo, Carlos, 2014, The genus Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae), ZooKeys 436, pp. 1-355 : 254-255

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Chrysomelidae

Cephaloleia suaveola Baly, 1885 Fig. 243

Cephaloleia suaveola Baly 1885: 23. Blackwelder 1946: 720 (catalog); Papp 1953: 22 (catalog); Uhmann 1957a: 25 (catalog); Wilcox 1983: 137; Staines 1996: 62 (Central America species), 1999: 241 (mimicry); Staines and Staines 1999: 524 (Baly species list); McKenna and Farrell 2005: 121 (phylogeny), 2006: 10949 (phylogeny).

Cephalolia suaveola Baly. Donckier 1899: 551 (catalog); Weise 1905a: 132 (noted), 1911a: 9 (catalog), 1911b: 11 (catalog); Uhmann 1936b: 485 (key).

Description.

Elongate; subparallel; subdepressed; head (except yellow frons), antennae, and scutellum black; pronotum yellow with small black macula on anterior margin behind head; elytra black with thin yellow vitta from base to apical 1/5 covering interspace 5 and puncture row 6; venter with pro-, meso-, and metasterna yellow medially, black laterally; abdominal sternite 1 yellow medially then black up to yellow margin, sterna 2-4 black medially, yellow laterally, sternite 5 black; leg with apex of femur, tibia, and tarsi dark. Head: vertex punctate, medial sulcus present; frons finely, densely punctate, not projecting; eyes protruding, finely faceted; slightly depressed between eyes. Antenna: reaches to humerus; slender; antennomere 1 elongate, cylindrical, robust; 2 ⅓ length of 1, elongate, cylindrical; 3 triangular, longer than 2; 4-5 elongate, cylindrical, decreasing in length; 6-8 transverse; 1-2 punctate with scattered setae; 3-8 setose. Pronotum: subquadrate; lateral margin straight then rounding to anterior angle, margined; anterior angle rounded, slightly produced; posterior angle acute; anterior margin straight; disc flattened; surface impunctate; basal impression absent; pronotal length 1.2-1.3 mm; pronotal width 1.4-1.7 mm. Scutellum: elongate triangular; alutaceous. Elytron: lateral margin straight, smooth, narrowly margined; apex rounded, smooth; sutural angle without tooth; humerus rounded, not produced; slightly constricted behind humerus; declivity beginning just behind humerus at puncture row 7 not edged with faint carina; shallowly punctate-striate, punctures in rows 5 and 6 larger than others, rows obsolete apically; elytral length 5.1-5.6 mm; elytral width 2.1-2.3 mm. Venter: pro-, meso-, and metasterna impunctate medially, punctate laterally; abdominal sterna punctate, each puncture with pale seta; suture between sterna 1 and 2 complete. Leg: slender; impunctate; tibia with fringe of setae on inner margin of apex. Total length: 6.4-7.2 mm.

Diagnosis.

This species is similar to Cephaloleia nevermanni and Cephaloleia quadrilineata . It can be distinguished by the elytra not expanding apically and by antennomeres 1 and 2 being elongate.

Host plant.

According to label data, adults have been collected in Heliconia sp. ( Heliconiaceae ).

Distribution.

Guatemala, Mexico.

Type material examined.

Holotype: Type H. T. [white disk with red border]/ Purula, Vera Paz. Champion/ B. C. A., Col. VI, 2. Cephaloleia suaveola, Baly/ Cephaloleia suaveola Baly (BMNH).

Specimens examined.

MEXICO: Veracruz- Cordoba (CASC). Total: 2.