<documentid="A10498E2388F44B9B0C707CC7F1F6B6E"ID-CLB-Dataset="33601"ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.579.7716"ID-GBIF-Dataset="ca237882-f17d-4ab5-9b63-5a73d5ba5748"ID-PMC="PMC4829969"ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-579-59"ID-PubMed="27110201"ID-ZooBank="4612CAB978EF4B2C9F230F7B6CAA1223"ModsDocAuthor=""ModsDocDate="2016"ModsDocID="1313-2970-579-59"ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 579"ModsDocTitle="Systematics of the seed beetle genus Decellebruchus Borowiec, 1987 (Coleoptera, Bruchidae)"checkinTime="1460456175325"checkinUser="pensoft"docAuthor="Napoles, Jesus Romero"docDate="2016"docId="FE6543E4B93369152F8DA8CD25613886"docLanguage="en"docName="ZooKeys 579: 59-81"docOrigin="ZooKeys 579"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.579.7716"docTitle="Decellebruchus walkeri Pic 1912"docType="treatment"docVersion="7"lastPageNumber="68"masterDocId="FF9DFF8E8E60F50BFFCAFFF92172FFD6"masterDocTitle="Systematics of the seed beetle genus Decellebruchus Borowiec, 1987 (Coleoptera, Bruchidae)"masterLastPageNumber="81"masterPageNumber="59"pageNumber="67"updateTime="1732723732612"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="60CB1C4305A7B9F86218536BB8280929">Systematics of the seed beetle genus Decellebruchus Borowiec, 1987 (Coleoptera, Bruchidae)</mods:title>
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). Length (pronotum-elytra): 1.77-2.1 mm; width: 1.27-1.37 mm; maximum thoracic depth 1.07-1.32 mm. Color: Antennae with the first five segments and apex of the last one yellowish, the rest dark or partially dark; body dark, except fore legs, middle legs, part of elytra, and ventral portion of femora; however some specimens may vary from all body yellowish to dark. Vestiture: Body with mixed black, yellowish, and white pubescence; fore coxa with a tuft of white setae; pygidium with three basal spots of white pubescence, the lateral ones bigger than median. Head: Short and broad, densely micropunctulate, frons with a strong median carina, distance between eyes 1.53
its length by ocular sinus, posterior margin of eye protruding from adjacent surfaces, postocular lobe rounded and setose; distance from base of antennae to apex of labrum 0.38
wider that long; antenna extending to mid body. Prothorax: Subconical, without lateral carina; densely foveolate, disc convex, lightly gibbous before scutellum and without shallow median channel; prosternal process narrow, triangular, acute, half as long as procoxa. Meso- and metathorax: Scutellum square, bidentate apically; elytra with striael punctures as wide as the stria, striae 4 and 5 abbreviated basally by tubercle, humeri slightly raised. Legs: First protarsomere 1.45
as long as second; metacoxa densely punctate; hind femur constricted basally and apically, expanded medially to about width of metacoxa; without external carina ventrally; internal ventral carina with subapical acuminate spine about as long as width of tibial base, followed by 2 smaller spines; hind tibia straight, enlarged, with complete set of carinae; tibial corona with 4 spinules, mucro 0.11
carina. Abdomen: Pygidium vertical (Fig. 10); last sternite emarginate. Genitalia: Median lobe moderately long, ventral valve triangular and deeply arcuate, internal sac lined with many small spines, basal portion with a small spinules forming a triangle (Fig. 11a); lateral lobes elongate, expanded at apex, cleft about 0.66 their length; basal strut with small perpendicular keel (Fig. 11b). Female (Fig. 12
). Length (pronotum-elytra) 1.95-2.8 mm, width: 1.25-1.8 mm, Maximum thoracic depth 1.12 mm. Similar to male except antennae serrate; pygidium subvertical; last sternite not marginate.
<paragraphid="D5EEA984A6DB5B063C86F6D4EC00417E"pageId="9"pageNumber="68">INDIA: Maharashtra, Lonavla, 28/IV/2000, 650 m, Pacholatko P. (1 ex., CEAM). KENYA: M. Elgon, 24/I/1979, 1950 m, Palm T. (1 ex., MZLU). SRI LANKA: Vayiriuttu, 5 mi W Trincomalee, Estern Prov., 9/II/1962, Lund University Ceylon Expedition, sweeping at teak plantation (1 ex., MZLU); Kuda Oya, 15 mi S Wellawaya, Uva Prov., 22/III/1962, Brinck, Andersson & Cederholm (2 ex., MZLU); Yakkala, 18 mi NE Colombo Western Prov., 26/III/1926, Brinck, Andersson & Cederholm, swept on vegetation at ditches in paddy fields (1 ex., MZLU).</paragraph>
There is little information about this species. At this time its host plants are unknown and only a few specimens were available for study; three of which were still named
