Cyrtonota pyramidata ( Boheman, 1850 )

Simões, Marianna V. P. & Monné, Marcela L., 2014, Taxonomic Revision of the genus Mesomphalia Hope, 1839 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), Zootaxa 3835 (2), pp. 151-197 : 195

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3835.2.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:007CBD0C-3259-4AFD-9ABB-0E9FE9B3A4C3
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6124905
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CC18F555-4A6D-FF85-FF2B-FF43FBF10E2B
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Cyrtonota pyramidata ( Boheman, 1850 )
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Cyrtonota pyramidata ( Boheman, 1850) , comb. nov.

( Figs. 152–153 View FIGURES 148 – 155 )

Mesomphalia pyramidata Boheman, 1850: 230 View in CoL ; 1856: 39; 1862: 105; Gemminger & Harold, 1876: 3634; Wagener, 1881: 75; Spaeth, 1914: 33; Blackwelder, 1946: 738; Borowiec, 1999: 117.

Remarks. From study of the description and type specimens (at BMNH; Figs. 152–153 View FIGURES 148 – 155 ), this species does not belong in Mesomphalia .

Mesomphalia pyramidata shares the following characters with Cyrtonota : five basal antennal segments and pronotum glabrous, prosternal collar without lateral projections at apical margin or median transverse sulcus. These features are lacking in Mesomphalia . We therefore place this species in Cyrtonota , as C. pyramidata (Boheman, 12850) comb. nov. Cyrtonota pyramidata can also be distinguished from Mesomphalia species by: color pattern of black with red spots and strongly punctate elytra; frontoclypeus not swollen; absence of tufts of setae on pronotum and elytra.

Geographical distribution. Described from “ Columbia ( Boheman, 1850).

Material examined. Holotype: COLOMBIA: “ Nova Granada ” ( BMNH).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Chrysomelidae
Genus	Cyrtonota