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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Ischiopachys Chevrolat, 1836
Fig. 16
Ischiopachys
Chevrolat in
Dejean 1836
: 440;
Lacordaire 1848
: 468-469;
Chapuis 1874
: 153;
Jacoby 1880
: 37; Jacoby and Clavareau 1906: 75-76;
Clavareau 1913
: 85;
Guerin
1943
: 90;
Blackwelder 1946
: 639;
Monros
1953a
: 263-264,
1953b
: 46;
Moldenke 1970
: 190.
Type species.
Ischiopachys bicolor
(Olivier, 1791), designated by
Monros
(1953b
: 46).
Figure 16.
Ischiopachys cribipennis cribipennis
Lacordaire (2), left: habitus (dorsal view), right: habitus (lateral view).
Diagnosis.
This genus has several diagnostic characters that clearly separate it from all other Neotropical
Clytrini
: scutellum inclined posterodorsally, distinctly protruding from the plane of elytra; intercoxal prosternal process nearly absent between fore coxae; epipleural margin broadly angled, tip rounded; elytra without pubescence; frons with medial pit, densely and coarsely punctate throughout; pygidium strongly convex; pronotum with lateral margins sulcate to receive antennae in repose; dorsum brilliant metallic.
Distribution.
From Mexico to Argentina.
Argentinian species checklist.
1a.
Ischiopachys cribipennis cribipennis
Lacordaire, 1848 (CTS). Host plant:
Sfolocalyx
? and
curupati
(
Monros
, 1953a).
1b.
Ischiopachys cribipennis micans
Lacordaire, 1848 (CHA, CTS, ERS, FOR, JUY, MNS, SAL, SEO, SFE, TUC). Host plants:
Fabaceae
:
Prosopis
sp.;
Piptadenia
sp.;
Caesalpinia
sp.sp. (
Monros
, 1953a).
Rutaceae
:
Citrus
sp. (Naranjo) (
Monros
, 1953a).
Ischiopachys micans
Lacordaire, 1848.
2.
Ischiopachys empyrea empyrea
Lacordaire, 1848 (TUC, SAL).
=
Ischiopachys empyrea smaragdina
Monros
, 1953a.