A comprehensive guide to the Argentinian case-bearer beetle fauna (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Camptosomata)
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Agrain, Federico A.
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Chamorro, Maria Lourdes
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Cabrera, Nora
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Sassi, Davide
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Roig-Junent, Sergio
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Stegnocephala Baly, 1877
Fig. 23
Stegnocephala
Baly 1877b
: 32;
Jacoby 1889
: 122;
Clavareau 1913
: 113;
Bruch 1914
: 352.
Type species.
Cryptocephalus hemixanthus
Suffrian, by original designation.
Figure 23.
Stegnocephala xanthopyga
(Suffrian) (2), left: habitus (dorsal view), right: habitus (lateral view).
Diagnosis.
Coxa widely separated, epipleural lobes strongly produced.
Chamorro-Lacayo and Konstantinov (2004)
, provided several prothoracic characters: pronotal punctures absent; intercoxal prosternal process truncate; anterior margin of intercoxal prosternal process with a medial flange, or two submedial flanges.
Distribution.
From Costa Rica to Argentina, mainly in tropical regions.
Remarks
.
Weise (1921)
disagreed with the separation of this genus from
Cryptocephalus
.
White (1968)
, interpreted
Weise's
comment as the synonymyzation of
Stegnocephala
with
Cryptocephalus
. Since
Weise (1921)
only provided morphological differences of
Cryptocephalus perplexus
Suffrian, which is not the type species of the genus, we still consider
Stegnocephala
as a valid genus. Chamorro is currently revising the genus.
Argentinian species checklist.
Stegnocephala discoidalis
Baly, 1877c (MNS).
Stegnocephala xanthopyga
(Suffrian, 1863) (TUC). This species newly cited for Argentina (Tucuman,
Famailla
: Quebrada de Lules, 30-I-1942 // F.
Monros
Collection 1959).