Commented catalogue of Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, with remarks on the collection of Jaro Mráz in the National Museum in Prague
Author
Sekerka, Lukáš
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2020
Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae
2020-12-26
60
2
667
707
http://dx.doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2020.048
journal article
10.37520/aemnp.2020.048
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Charidotella
(
Philaspis
)
polita
(
Klug, 1829
)
New record.
BRAZIL
: Sඞඈ Pൺඎඅඈ:
São Paulo
,
1 spec.
(BMNH).
Distribution.
Brazil
(
Rio Grande do Sul
). New to
São Paulo
.
Remarks.
According to KඅඎǤ (1829: 2), the
type
material was collected (translated): ‘in South
Brazil
, in the vicinity of Montevideo, Cassapava [= Caçapava do Sul], Porto Allegre by [Friedrich] Sellow’; the locality data were interpreted by following authors only as South
Brazil
. In the same work, Klug described another 18 species of Cassidinae, most of which are very common and widespread through the entire basin of the
Paraná
River. Their
type
specimens are morphologically similar to populations from
Rio Grande do Sul
while populations from the estuary of the
Paraná
River (including Montevideo area) are morphologically more or less distinct. Therefore, I assume that the Cassidinae were most likely collected in Porto Alegre or Caçapava do Sul, both located in the Brazilian state of
Rio Grande do Sul
.