The genus Alurnus Fabricius, 1775 (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Alurnini) in Colombia with four new species records and an updated checklist in the country
Author
Rendón-Ramírez, Alejandra
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Author
Vergara-Navarro, Erika Valentina
Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria, Agrosavia. Colección Taxonómica Nacional de Insectos “ Luis María Murillo ” CTNI, C. I. Tibaitatá, Mosquera (Colombia)
Author
Quiroz-Gamboa, John Alveiro
Museo Entomológico Francisco Luis Gallego. Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-12-11
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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5551.1.4
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5551.1.4
1175-5326
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Alurnus chocoensis
Pardo-Locarno & Constantino, 2023
(
Fig. 6
)
Diagnosis.
Head red. Antennal scape and pedicel subequal in length; pedicel widened to the apex. Vertex of head striate and punctate, some punctures each with a pale seta. Front punctate, with yellowish setae. Labrum densely punctate. Pronotum glabrous, finely pubescent. Elytra intense or light red, surface punctate, humeral calli densely punctate (
Pardo-Locarno & Constantino, 2023
).
Material examined.
COLOMBIA
:
Valle del Cauca
,
Buenaventura
,
Bajo Anchicayá
,
400m
,
25.ii.1993
,
Coll. N. Carrejo
(
1ex.
) [MUSENUV-6392].
Buenaventura
,
Bajo Anchicayá
,
400m
,
3.i.1983
.
Coll. K.E.
(
1ex.
) [MUSENUV-6390].
Buenaventura
,
La Cascada
,
340m
,
10.i.1992
.
Coll. N. Carrejo
(
2exs.
) [MUSENUV-6385. MUSENUV-6387].
Buenaventura
,
Bajo Anchicayá
,
3,601327
-76,858571
,
14.iii.2023
.
Coll. S.
Paredes-O &
M. Hernández.
[MUSENUV]
Measurements: n=
6.
29mm±
2mm
Plant associations.
Bactris gasipaes
Kunth
(
Arecaceae
)—peach palm (
Pardo-Locarno & Constantino, 2023
).
Distribution.
Colombia
(
Valle del Cauca
).