Cephaloleia splendida Staines, 1996
ADULT
Shining black except sides, base of pronotum, and elytral margins which are yellow. Head: deeply, densely punctate; medial sulcus absent; not depressed between eyes; frons not projecting. Antenna: antennomeres 1-3 cylindrical, 1 and 2 subequal in length, 3 longer; 4-10 transverse, subequal in length; 11 rounded at apex, subequal in length to 1 or 2. Pronotum: reddish-yellow except black behind head; convex; sparsely, deeply punctate; side margined, canaliculate, straight and convergent; anterior angle produced; posterior angle acute; pronotal length 0.7-0.9 mm (n=9); pronotal width 0.9-1.0 mm. Scutellum: pentagonal; alutaceous. Elytron: side margined, smooth; apices cojointly rounded; puncture rows impressed; puncture rows converge and unite on apical 1/5; elytral length 2.3-3.2 mm; elytral width 1.1-1.5 mm. Venter: prosternum black and smooth in middle, reddish-yellow and punctate at side; abdominal sterna 1 and 2 fused in middle; 3-5 setose. Leg: femur and tibia punctate; black. Total length 3.9-4.3 mm.
COSTA RICA: Alajuela- Peñas Blancas, 7.VII.1987 (USNM); Upala, Sector San Ramón de Dos Ríos, 1.5 km NW Hacienda Nueva Zelandia, 600-700 m (INBio). Cartago- no further data (ZMHB); Quebrada Segunda, Ref. Nac. Fauna Silv. Tapantí, 1250 m, abr 1992 (INBIO); Quebrada Segunda, 1200-1300 m (INBio); Turrialba, Tayutic, Grano deo Oro, Chirripo, 1100-1200 m (INBio). Guanacaste- Estación Pitilla, 9 km S. Santa Cecilia, 600-700 m (INBio); Liberia, Mayorga, Estación Cacao, 2 km SW Cerro Cacao, 900-1000 m (INBio); Río San Lorenzo, Tierras Morenas, 900-1000 m (INBio). Limón- Est. Jalova, 0 m, P.N. Tortuguero, Jul 1990 (INBIO); Valle La Estrella, 0-100 m (INBio); Sardinas, Barra del Colorado, 4 km NW Cerro Cocorí 0-100 m (INBio). Puntarenas- Osa, Sierpe, Rancho Quemado, 200-300 m (INBio); Perez Zeledón Santa Elena, Las Nubes, 1200-1300 m (INBio). San José- 1 km NE Estación Santa Elena, 1300-1400 m (INBio); Estación Bijagual, 1.5 km N Bijagual, 3=400-500 m (INBio). PANAMA: Chiriquí- Reserva La Fortuna, Continental Divide Tr., 28 May 92, 28 May 92 (EGRC), V-25-1993 (CDFA), V-10-1994 (CDFA, USNM); Hartmann's Finca, 1300 m, 24-25.V.77 (CHAH). Panamá- Cerro Campana, 27 Aug 72 (EGRC), May 11-15, 1980 (EGRC), V-17-1993 (EGRC).