New flightless Eumolpinae of the genera Apterodina Bechyné and Brachypterodina n. gen. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from the Neotropics Author Flowers, R. Wills text Zootaxa 2004 549 1 18 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.157653 1a204144-f48d-47e9-949e-2b616e3f0418 1175­5326 157653 BDF889B5-9A0A-43E5-9249-6EEF222B1F17 Apterodina bucki Bechyné ( Figs. 5 , 9 , 13 , 31 , 33 ) Apterodina bucki Bechyné 1954 :117 . Female. Length 3.8–4.2 mm . Head, pronotum, elytra and underside brownish black with faint metallic sheen; antenna reddish brown, segments 7–9 paler. Legs piceous reddish brown. Mouthparts and mandibles piceous; labrum with 2 dorsal setae and short row of lateral setae along outer margin. Mandibles with lateral surface smooth, a prominent seta on dorsal surface at angle. Prothorax distinctly wider than long, L/W = 0.62; pronotum strongly convex, anterior angles quadrate, rounded, posterior angles obtuse; lateral margins narrow, rounded, strongly converging in apical third, with widest part of pronotum near middle; disc regularly, punctate, with punctures separated by a distance subequal to their own diameters. Undersurface of thorax smooth. Prosternum with intercoxal process flat, its width 1.0 x diameter of procoxa. Mesosternum with scattered setae. Metasternum very short, narrow between meso­ and metacoxae, transversely wrinkled, with short yellow setae. Elytra inflated, more or less evenly punctate, with punctures separated by distance greater than the diameter of a puncture; surface between punctures smooth with scattered small punctulae; humeri not prominent, broadly rounded, width across humeri 1.05 x width across pronotum; basal calli obsolete; postbasal depression lacking; sides broadly rounded, convergent; apices mucronate at sutural angle. Hind wing reduced to narrow strap ( Fig. 13 ). Scutellum U­shaped. Abdomen with scattered erect setae, surface of segments smooth. Pygidium densely setose on posterior margin ( Fig. 9 ). Segments VIII–XI forming elongate ovipositor. Sternum VIII with long aciculate basal apodeme. Spermatheca ( Fig. 31 ) with pump and receptacle not differentiated, a thin apodeme on the apex of pump; spermathecal duct thin and coiled. Male . unknown. Specimens Examined. 1 Ψ (NHMB): Porto Alegre; P­type, Apterodina bucki m., J. Bechyn det. 1953. 1 Ψ (NHMB): Parecy Novo no other data. The type (not seen) is in the Pio Buck collection ( Bechyné 1954 ), currently in the Colegio Anchieta in Sao Paulo (C. Duckett, pers. com.).