Menudos
- 1. Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul, Rua Edmundo Gaievski, 1000, P. O. Box 253, 85.770 - 000, Realeza, PR, Brazil adelita. linzmeier @ uffs. edu. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2979 - 8728
- 2. Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, c / o Smithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 37012, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012, USA. alex. konstantinov @ usda. gov; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6578 - 6735
Description
Key to Menudos species
1. Antennomeres 1 and 2 dark............................................................................. 2
- Antennomeres 1 and 2 whitish........................................................................... 4
2 (1). Female elytron unicolorous, dark brown through its entire length, with setae forming at least three bent, transverse bands, not counting yellow hair at the apex...................................................... M. barberi (Blake, 1943b)
- Female elytron bicolorous, black or dark brown at the base and yellow or light brown at the apex, with setae forming two bent, transverse bands, not counting yellow hair at the apex........................................................ 3
3 (2). Golden yellow setae do not form distinct pattern on elytra............ M. illariosus Linzmeier & Konstantinov new species
- Golden yellow setae form distinct pattern on elytra................. M. chamorrae (Konstantinov & Konstantinova, 2011)
4 (1). Antennomeres 1 and 2, 5 and 6, and 10 and 11 whitish. Antennomeres 3 and 4, 7–9 brown. Golden yellow elytral pubescence arranged with 5 abruptly bent transverse bands (first—basal, band reaches suture). Punctures sparser on pronotal protuberances than between them. Median lobe of aedeagus ventrally with lateral margins converging gradually towards apex.................................................................... M. toronegro Linzmeier & Konstantinov new species
- Antennomeres 1 to 6 and tip of antennomere 11 whitish. Antennomeres 7–10 brown. Golden yellow elytral pubescence arranged with 4 more or less straight transverse bands (first—basal, band the narrowest does not reach suture). Punctures as dense on pronotal protuberances than between them. Median lobe of aedeagus ventrally with lateral margins converging abruptly towards apex................................................. M. maricao Linzmeier & Konstantinov new species
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Genus
- Menudos
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Taxon rank
- genus
References
- Blake, D. H. (1943 b) New species of Hadropoda Suffrian from the West Indies. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 92 (8), 413 - 441.
- Konstantinov, A. S. & Konstantinova, A. A. (2011) New genus and species of flea beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini) from Puerto Rico, with comments on flea beetle diversity in the West Indies and a key to the West Indian Monoplatini genera. ZooKeys, 155, 61 - 87. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 155.2124