Chalepus bellulus (Chapuis)

Hispinae, Chrysomelidae, Coleoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia


Head, legs, and antennae black; pronotum yellowish-red; elytra dark with basal yellowish-red maculae. Head: smooth, impunctate; vertex and frons impressed with medial sulcus; frons with conical process between eyes. Antennae: half body length; robust, filiform, slightly thickened toward apex; segments I-II short, subequal in length, I slightly incrassate; III obconical, longer than II. Pronotum: wider than long; side margins obtusely angulate-subrotundate, nearly parallel from base to the middle, then obliquely converging to apex; anterior angles with short subacute tooth; subcylindrical; transverse depression on each side at base; coarsely, deeply foveolate-punctate; ill-defined longitudinal sulcus on disc. Elytra: parallel, slightly constricted at sides, concavity from humeri to posterior angle; side margins serrulate; apices rounded, more serrulate; each elytron with 10 rows of deep punctures, 9-10 irregular, 7-8 obsolete in middle third; interspaces 2, 4, and 8 strongly costate, suture thickened; yellow with coppery-black broad vitta on disc, confluent at base, extending from basal margin to below middle. Total length: 6.5-7.0 mm.

Food plant: Oryza sp.


Page authors:

C. L. Staines, 3302 Decker Place, Edgewater MD 21037. Staines.Charles@NMNH.SI.EDU

John T. Longino, The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 98505 USA. longinoj@evergreen.edu

Maylin Paniagua and Nelci Oconitrillo, La Selva Biological Station, Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui, Costa Rica


Date of this version: 27 March 1998
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