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Cephaloleia diplothemium Uhmann, 1951
Nomenclature
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Subfamily: CassidinaeGenus: Cephaloleia
Media
SUMMARY
Adult
Elongated-ovate, flat, dorsum black, head and pronotum weakly metallic, elytra clearly metallic-green, venter black, mouthparts and antennae brownish, legs and sides of abdomen indeterminate pitch-brown. Head: very finely punctate between the eyes, vertex slightly depressed, with faint medial carina and fine longitudinal keel between antennae; eyes strongly convex; frons smooth. Antenna: thin, slightly longer than head and pronotum combined, not thickened apically; antennomere 11 slightly flattened; 1 only slightly thicker than the others, obliquely truncate apically; 2 less than ½ length of 1, rounded; 3 as long as 1, weakly conical; 4-10 shorter than 3, cylindrical, slightly different from each other, the fourth longest; 11 pointed at apex; 1-2 coarsely, densely punctate; 3-11 finely pubescent. Pronotum: 1 ½ times as wide as long, lateral margin diverging from the base, broadly rounded front, laterally finely and sparsely fine punctate, slightly canaliculate; posterior angles acute; posterior margin bisinuate; emarginate anterior margin slightly rounded, as broad as long; anterior marginal setae present but very difficult to see; disc slightly convex, with double punctures; punctures very fine everywhere, denser and coarser laterally. Scutellum: pentagonal, micropunctate. Elytra: almost parallel, rounded at the apex, apices individually-truncate; only slightly wider than the pronotum at the base; lateral margin fine; with 10 rows of punctures and a long scutellar row; puncture rows 1-6 are very fine; interspaces flat, 9th slightly raised behind the humerus; exterior apical angle finely dentate; pygidium densely punctate, with very weak impression. Venter: sides of the mouth finely and densely punctate; epipleuron, pro- and metasterna finely punctate; abdomen extremely finely punctate, with fine, dense pubescence; ♂ with hind margin of last sternite emarginate. Legs: femora thickened; last tarsomere tomentose. Total length: 3.3 mm.