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506CEF2D775C4935FEF1F91245FE89CB.text	506CEF2D775C4935FEF1F91245FE89CB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Calliaspis cerdai	<div><p>Calliaspis cerdai sp. nov.</p><p>Etymology</p><p>Dedicated to J. A. Cerda, who collected this new species.</p><p>Differential diagnosis</p><p>Calliaspis cerdai sp. nov. and C. surinamensis Borowiec, 2000 are the only members of the genus with both pronotum and elytra distinctly bicoloured, red and black. Most species of the genus have the pronotum and elytra unicolourous, red, metallic blue, or black, sometimes with paler margins, only C. bicolor Boheman, 1856 has the pronotum distinctly bicoloured but it has the elytral disc uniformly black. Calliaspis cinnabarina Boheman, 1850 and C. umbonata Hincks, 1956 sometimes have indistinct brownish areas on the elytral disc, especially on the sides, the slope, and on the humeral part, but both differ from C. cerdai and C. surinamensis in the paler red ground colour, and the coarser and denser punctation of the pronotum. Calliaspis cerdai differs from C. surinamensis in having a well marked postscutellar tubercle (Fig. 4), while C. surinamensis has the elytral disc almost regularly convex (Fig. 2). The black markings in C. surinamensis occupy the basal part and sides of elytral disc (Fig. 1), while in C. cerdai only the basal third of disc (Fig. 3). Calliaspis cerdai is a slightly larger species, with the body length 6.6 mm, while in C. surinamensis the body length is 5.5-6.1 mm. Calliaspis cerdai, C. umbonata, and C. wegrzynowiczi Borowiec et Stojczew, 1998 are the only species of the genus with a distinct postscutellar tubercle. Calliaspis umbonata differs in large size (length 7.5-8.0 mm) and in having the pale red elytral ground colour with only indistinct brownish spots. C. wegrzynowiczi differs in the small size (length 5.3 mm) and in having uniformly purple red pronotal and elytral disc.</p><p>Description</p><p>Length: 6.6 mm, width: 5.3 mm, length of pronotum: 1.8 mm, width of pronotum: 4.0 mm; length/width ratio: 1.25. Body stout (Fig. 3).</p><p>Head reddish. Top of pronotum black, sides changing gradually from black to red, extreme margin yellowish­red. Scutellum at base brownish­red, apex red. Elytral disc in anterior third black to reddish brown. Postscutellar tubercle and area around scutellum, the border between dark and red parts of elytra indistinct, changing gradually from top of disc to marginal interval are black. Posterior 2/3 of elytral disc and whole explanate margin red, only extreme margin of elytra yellowish­red. Ventrites yellow. Basal two antennal segments yellow, segments 3­6 pale yellow, segment 7 with basal half pale yellow, black apically, remaining three segments deep black with only apex of last segment yellowish. Antennae stout, telescoped, two basal segments smooth and shiny, remainder dull, pubescent. Length ratio of antennal segments: 100:166:200:185:167:158:150:117:158:300.</p><p>Head shallowly constricted behind eyes. Frons with very high and sharp interocular carina. Vertex almost flat, with several fine punctures, with median sulcus. Pronotum 2.2 times as wide as long, sides regularly converging anteriorly. Anterior margin deeply emarginate, anterior margin of emargination distinctly protruding anteriorly, on sides with setal tubercle. Disc of pronotum convex, without impressions, sides with moderately coarse and sparse punctation, distance between punctures three to four times wider than diameter of a puncture, punctation more dense than on sides only in posterior corners, with distance between punctures partly as wide as diameter of a puncture. Top of disc with fine and sparse punctation. Punctures thrice smaller than those on sides of disc, with distance between punctures four to five times wider than diameter of a puncture. Surface between punctures with very fine secondary punctation, shiny. Explanate margin reduced to very narrow margination. Scutellum large, pentagonal. Base of elytra as wide as base of pronotum, elytra short­oval with maximum width at middle, apical margin rounded, last abdominal tergite covered. Disc distinctly elevated in postscutellar area, forming an obtuse postscutellar tubercle (Fig. 4). Punctation of disc arranged in regular rows, punctures fine, distinctly finer on slope than in anterior part of disc. Distance between punctures in rows twice to thrice longer than diameter of a puncture. Punctures in marginal row only slightly larger than in submarginal row. Intervals flat, several times wider than rows. Surface of intervals smooth and shiny with fine micropunctation. Explanate margin narrow, at widest part as wide as three marginal intervals combined, its surface impunctate, smooth and shiny. Prosternal process strongly expanded apically, its apical margin shallowly emarginate, surface with three long and two short, deep longitudinal grooves. Legs stout, claws simple.</p><p>Types</p><p>Holotype: “ GUYANE (Régina), Montagne de Kaw, PK 36, 4.X. 1997, filet cryldé” “J.A. Cerda legit” (preserved at the Department of Systematic Zoology and Zoogeography, Wroc aw University, Wroc aw, Poland).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/506CEF2D775C4935FEF1F91245FE89CB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Borowiec, L.	Borowiec, L. (2003): A new species of Calliaspis Dejean, 1837 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) from French Guyana. Zootaxa 148: 1-6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156278
506CEF2D775F4932FEF1FDBA42088C4B.text	506CEF2D775F4932FEF1FDBA42088C4B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Calliaspis	<div><p>Key to species of Calliaspis</p><p>1 Elytra partly or completely red or yellowish­red, sometimes with indistinct metal­ lic tint ..................................................................................................................... 2</p><p>­ Elytra completely or mostly brown, black or metallic, sometimes with pale spot 11</p><p>2(1) Elytral margins distinctly punctate ........................................................................ 3</p><p>­ Elytral margins impunctate .................................................................................... 4</p><p>3(2) Elytra uniformly red; Guyana ...................................................... substriata Spaeth</p><p>­ Elytral disc partly with indistinct metallic blue tint; Peru ...... cyaneomicans Spaeth</p><p>4(2) Pronotum partly black ............................................................................................ 5</p><p>­ Pronotum uniformly yellowish­red to red, or only base of disc partly infuscate .. 6</p><p>5(4) Elytra unevenly convex, disc with distinct postscutellar tubercle. Large, length 6.6 mm; French Guyana ................................................................... cerdai sp. nov.</p><p>­ Elytra evenly convex, disc without postscutellar elevation. Small, length 5.3­6.1 mm; Suriname ..................................................................... surinamensis Borowiec</p><p>6(4) Antennae elongate, segments 8­9 distinctly longer than wide ............................. 7</p><p>­ Antennae short and stout, segments 8­9 slightly wider than long; Ecuador ............. ............................................................................ sachaensis Borowiec et Stojczew</p><p>7(6) Elytra distinctly unevenly convex, disc with distinct postscutellar tubercle ........ 8</p><p>­ Elytra evenly or only slightly unevenly convex, disc at most with very low posts­ cutellar elevation .................................................................................................... 9</p><p>8(7) Large, length 7.0­ 8.8 mm. Basal part of pronotal and elytral disc infuscate. Ground colour of dorsum yellowish­red; Brazil .......................... umbonata Hincks</p><p>­ Small, length 5.3 mm. Dorsum uniformly purple red; Ecuador ............................... ...................................................................... wegrzynowiczi Borowiec et Stojczew</p><p>9(8) Two apical antennal segments infuscate to black ................................................ 10</p><p>­ Antennae uniformly yellowish red; Brazil .................................... coccinea Spaeth</p><p>10(9) Pronotum simply coarsely punctuate; Brazil, Ecuador, French Guyana ................. .......................................................................................................... rubra (Olivier)</p><p>­ Pronotum dubly, coarsely and finely, punctuate; Brazil, French Guyana, Suriname .............................................................................................. cinnabarina Boheman</p><p>11(1) At least pronotal and elytral disc of same colour ................................................ 12</p><p>­ Pronotum yellowish red, elytral disc mostly metallic blue; Brazil, French Guyana ......................................................................................................... nimbata (Perty)</p><p>12(11) Antennae very short and stout, segments 8­9 at most as wide as long ................ 13</p><p>­ Antennae elongate and slim, segments 8­9 longer than wide .............................. 14</p><p>13(12) Dorsum deep black, thorax partly black. Elytral disc slightly unevenly convex, with low postscutellar elevation; Brazil, Peru ........................... brevicornis Spaeth</p><p>­ Dorsum brown, thorax yellowish. Elytral disc evenly convex; Brazil .................... ....................................................................................................... sahlbergi Spaeth</p><p>14(12) Pronotum unicolours, without yellow margin ..................................................... 15</p><p>­ Pronotum with yellow margin ............................................................................. 16</p><p>15(14) Elytra at base with yellow spot; French Guyana .................... discophora Boheman</p><p>­ Elytra at base without pale spot; Franch Guyana .................... funeraria Boheman</p><p>16(14) Antennae uniformly yellow ................................................................................ 17</p><p>­ Apical antennal segments infuscate to black ....................................................... 18</p><p>17(16) Thorax completely yellow; Bolivia ............................................. bicolor Boheman</p><p>­ Thorax partly black; Bolivia ................................................. testaceicornis (Weise)</p><p>18(16) Small, length 4.3­4.8 mm. Principal impression of elytral disc shallow. Intervals without punctures or with irregular micropunctation only .................................. 19</p><p>­ Large, length 4.9­5.7 mm. Principal impression of elytral disc deep. Intervals with two more or less regular rows of very fine punctures; Brazil .. limbaticollis Spaeth</p><p>19(18) Prosternum black. Elytra without yellow margin; Bolivia, Peru ... andicola Spaeth</p><p>­ Prosternum yellow. Elytra with yellow margin; Brazil ................... bohemani Baly</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/506CEF2D775F4932FEF1FDBA42088C4B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Borowiec, L.	Borowiec, L. (2003): A new species of Calliaspis Dejean, 1837 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) from French Guyana. 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