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Cephaloleia maculipennis Baly, 1858
Nomenclature
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Subfamily: CassidinaeGenus: Cephaloleia
SUMMARY
ADULT
Elongate; depressed; head black, antennae yellow with apical two antennomeres darker; pronotum black with lateral margin yellow; elytra yellow with black curved transverse band near apex, a black submarginal vitta starting at base ending in a black transverse band near the middle; venter yellowish. Head: convex; vertex smooth; medial sulcus absent. Antenna: reach to humerus; antennomere 1 incrassate; 2 robust, ¾ length of 1; 3 cylindrical, longer than 2; 4-5 cylindrical, subequal in length, each shorter than 3; 6-10 transverse; 11 rounded at apex; 1-9 punctate; 10-11 setose. Pronotum: subquadrate; lateral margin straight, rounded apically, narrowly margined; anterior angle slightly excavated; posterior angle acute; subconvex; coarsely, irregularly punctate; basal impression absent. Scutellum: pentagonal; smooth; impunctate. Elytron: lateral margin straight, narrowly margined; apex rounded; sutural angle without tooth; moderately convex, flattened at suture; distinctly punctate-striate, punctures large. Venter: abdominal sterna 1 & 2 with suture obsolete in middle; last abdominal sternite broadly emarginate, sinuate in middle in male. Total length: 4.5 mm.