The genus Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) Author Staines, Charles L. Author Garcia-Robledo, Carlos text ZooKeys 2014 436 1 355 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.436.5766 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.436.5766 1313-2970-436-1 4AE52FD68CF948DCAA79C15AD75FF7F1 Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Chrysomelidae Cephaloleia discoidalis Baly, 1885 Fig. 123 Cephaloleia discoidalis Baly 1885 : 15. Blackwelder 1946 : 719 (catalog); Papp 1953 : 16 (catalog); Uhmann 1957a : 18 (catalog); Wilcox 1983 : 136 (catalog); Staines 1996 : 28 (Central America species); Staines and Staines 1999 : 523 (Baly species list); McKenna and Farrell 2006 : 10949 (phylogeny). Cephalolia discoidalis Baly. Donckier 1899 : 548 (catalog); Weise 1911a : 7 (catalog), 1911b : 12 (catalog). Description. Oblong-oval; subconvex; head, antennae, pronotum, and scutellum dark brown; elytra yellowish with dark brown sutural vitta starting at basal margin, dilated just past scutellum, then gradually narrows to just beyond midline, then only suture darkened, and a brown pointed, ovoid, elongate macula on apical ⅓; venter with pros ternum brown, meso- and metasterna brown medially and black laterally, abdominal sterna dark medially and pale laterally; legs yellow. Head: vertex densely punctate, each puncture with short pale seta, medial sulcus absent; frons not projecting; keel between antennal bases; not depressed between eyes. Antenna: reaches to humerus; slender; antennomere 1 longer than 2, thickened; 2-3 transverse, subequal in length; 4-10 transverse, decreasing in length; 11 2 x length of 10, rounded at apex; 1-4 punctate with scattered setae; 5-11 setose. Pronotum: transverse; lateral margin straight and convergent from base to apex, canaliculate, especially near apex; anterior angle obtuse, produced; posterior angle acute; anterior margin emarginate behind head; disc convex, surface densely and shallowly punctate; basal impression absent; pronotal length 0.9-1.2 mm; pronotal width 1.3-1.7 mm. Scutellum: pentagonal; micropunctate. Elytron: lateral margin straight, smooth, slightly laminate; apex obtusely rounded; sutural angle without tooth; humerus rounded, not produced; slightly constricted behind humerus; punctures large, shallow; humerus nearly impunctate; elytral length 4.0-4.2 mm; elytral width 2.1-2.3 mm. Venter: prosternum impunctate; meso- and metasterna impunctate medially, punctate laterally; abdominal sterna sparsely punctate, each puncture with pale seta; suture between sterna 1 and 2 obsolete medially. Leg: slender; glabrous, impunctate; tibia with fringe of setae on inner margin of apex. Total length: 5.1-5.4 mm. Diagnosis. This species is similar to Cephaloleia balyi , Cephaloleia deficiens , Cephaloleia dorsalis , Cephaloleia linkei , and Cephaloleia suturalis . It can be distinguished by the black pronotum and by antennomere 1 being longer than 3. Distribution. Guatemala, Mexico Honduras, Panama. Type material examined. Holotype: Type H. T. [white disk with red border]/ Orizaba Mexico, Salle Coll. [printed label]/ 1344 [handwritten pale blue label]/ B.C.A., Col. VI, 2. Cephaloleia discoidalis/ Cephaloleia discoidalis Baly, Mexico [handwritten blue label] (BMNH). Specimens examined. GUATEMALA: no further data (USNM). HONDURAS: Santa Barbara- 13 km SE El Mochito, 22 July 1977, 31 July 1977 (EGRC). PANAMA: Chiriqui- BdT Cont. div. on Gualaca Chir. Gr. Hwy, 14 June 1985 (EGRC). Total: 4.