Cephaloleia mauliki Uhmann, 1930  

LARVA

From Maulik (1932): Color when dead creamy white with darker dorsal area along middle; surface shagreened, more so laterally. Total length 8.5-9.5 mm (n=2); width 4.5-5.5 mm. Dorsum: anterior and lateral margins rugose; scattered setae especially along anterior margin; slightly raised medially. Venter: Head somewhat elongate, epicranial halves not separated from each other; with six ocelli, four in line and two below; labrum large, covering mandibles; with setae; clypeus wider than labrum; mandible tridentate; maxillary palps short, stout; labial palps with one palpomere. Antenna long, antennomere 3 longest, with two unequal processes at apex; 2 shorter, wider, with four setae plus shorter seate at apex. Leg: with robust claw.

ADULT

Elongate; dark reddish brown; antennal antennomeres 1-5 and eyes black. Head: vertex with fine, scattered punctures; medial carina present; eyes dark; slightly depressed between eyes; frons not projecting. Antenna: antennomeres 1-7 reddish, rest black; 1 as long as 2 and 3 combined; male with antennomeres 2 and 3 compressed, projecting inward; female with antennomeres 2 and 3 cylindrical; 4-10 transverse, decreasing in length; 11 elongate, pointed at apex, subequal in length to 1. Pronotum: almost as wide as base of elytra; wider than long; irregularly punctate; side margined, canaliculate, straight for basal ¾'ths, then convergent; anterior angle rounded, produced; posterior angle rectangular; pronotal length 1.6-1.9 mm (n=15); pronotal width 2.3-2.4 mm. Scutellum: pentagonal; apex acute. Elytron: wider than base of pronotum; sides parallel; apices cojointly rounded; punctures large, little impressed; puncture rows converge and unite irregularly at apex; elytral length 5.9-6.0 mm; elytral width 2.1-3.2 mm. Venter: meso- and metasterna punctate at sides; paler than dorsum; abdominal sterna 1 and 2 fused in middle; sterna 3-5 setose; last sternite emarginate in male; truncate, lightly bisinuate in female. Leg: profemur canaliculate on underside; femur punctate; tibia spoon-shaped at apex, with fringe of setae. Total length: 8.0 -8.4mm.