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Sphaeroderma separatum Baly 1874
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- 1. Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606 - 8501, Japan
Description
Sphaeroderma separatum Baly, 1874
Fig. 14 R – V
Host plant.
Ranunculaceae: Clematis japonica. Takizawa (2021) lists up three host plants: C. apiifolia DC., C. pierotti Miq. and Chelidonium majus L. (Papaveraceae).
Leaf mine.
Full-depth radiate mine along leaf vein on mature leaf (Fig. 14 T – V). Frass is liquefied, deposited near the center of the mine.
Material examined.
• 2 adults copulating on a leaf of Clematis japonica at Shirakawa-gô, Shirakawa, Ôno-gun, Gifu Pref., 12-VIII-2024 (Fig. 14 R, S), and many leaf mines on the plant species at the same locality 29-IX-2023 (Fig. 14 T – V).
Notes
Published as part of Kato, Makoto & Imada, Yume, 2025, Diversity and host plant utilization of leaf-mining beetles of Chrysomeloidea (Coleoptera) in Japan, pp. 209-268 in ZooKeys 1238 on pages 209-268, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1238.124514
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2023-09-29
- Verbatim event date
- 2023-09-29/2024-08-12
- Scientific name authorship
- Baly
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Genus
- Sphaeroderma
- Species
- separatum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Sphaeroderma separatum Baly, 1874 sec. Kato & Imada, 2025
References
- Takizawa H (2021) A Taxonomic Note on Sphaeroderma Species in Japan (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Alticinae). Elytra New series 11 (suppl): 217–229. https://doi.org/10.51200/jtbc.v11i.264