Alurnus chocoensis Pardo-Locarno & Constantino 2023
- 1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- 2. Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria, Agrosavia. Colección Taxonómica Nacional de Insectos " Luis María Murillo " CTNI, C. I. Tibaitatá, Mosquera (Colombia)
- 3. Museo Entomológico Francisco Luis Gallego. Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Description
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).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Pardo-Locarno & Constantino
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Genus
- Alurnus
- Species
- chocoensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Alurnus chocoensis Pardo-Locarno, 2023 sec. Rendón-Ramírez, Vergara-Navarro & Quiroz-Gamboa, 2024
References
- Pardo-Locarno, L. C. & Constantino, L. M. (2023) Una nueva especie de Alurnus Fabricius de la costa pacifica de Colombia y apuntes sobre su biologia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Insecta Mundi, 0970, 1 - 8.