Calligrapha multiguttata Stal 1859
Creators: name: Gómez-Zurita, Jesús
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Calligrapha
Calligrapha multiguttata

description: Calligrapha multiguttata Stål, 1859
(Figs 1 a, 2g, 2h, 3b)
Calligrapha multiguttata Stål, 1859. Öfvers. af K. Vet.-Akad. Förh. 16, p. 326. Chrysomela multiguttata: Stål, 1865. Mon. Chrysom. Am., pt. 3, pp. 265, 345. Calligrapha multiguttata: Gemminger & Harold, 1874. Cat. Col., p. 3433.
Calligrapha multiguttata: Jacoby, 1882. Biol. Centr.-Amer., vol. vi, pt. 1, p. 204. Calligrapha multiguttata: Horn, 1884. Canad. Entomol. 16, p. 128.
Calligrapha multiguttata: Jacoby, 1891. Biol. Centr.-Amer., vol. vi, pt. 1, suppl., p. 246. Calligrapha multiguttata: Linell, 1896. J. New York Ent. Soc. 4, p. 199.
Calligrapha multiguttata: Dugés, 1896. Cat. Col. Coleopt. Mex., p. 96.
Polyspila multiguttata: Weise, 1916. Coleopt. Cat., p. 41.
Calligrapha multiguttata: Leng, 1920. Cat. Col. Amer., p. 295.
Calligrapha multiguttata: Douglass, 1929. J. Kansas Ent. Soc. 2, p. 14.
Calligrapha multiguttata: Blackwelder, 1946. U.S. Natl. Mus. Bull. 185, p. 674. Calligrapha multiguttata: Leech & Green, 1955. Coleopt. Bull. 9(2), p. 28.
Calligrapha multiguttata: Wilcox, 1972. Bull. Univ. St. New York 421, p. 8. Calligrapha multiguttata: Wilcox, 1975. Checklist Chrysom., Biol. Res. Inst. Am., p. 66. Calligrapha multiguttata: Ward et al., 1977. Agr. Res. Serv. Tech. Bull. 1557, p. 17. Calligrapha multiguttata: Burgos-Solorio & Anaya-Rosales, 2004. Acta Zool. Mex. (n.s.) 20, p. 47.
The original description of C. multiguttata Stål, 1859 is succinct in all its details, as most Chrysomelinae descriptions by this author (Stål 1859, 1860), but it includes no useful details to recognise the type material. The subsequent revisionary monograph by the same author is more explicit and it provides some hints about the characteristics of the material available to him, including the collection where the specimens he knew were deposited (Stål 1862 –1865). In the case of C. multiguttata, two repositories are mentioned, the Natural History museums of Berlin and Stockholm, and specifically for the latter, F. E. Guérin-Méneville’s collection is given. Assuming that the multiple repositories imply the existence of a syntype series, I select as Lectotype one specimen at NRM (Stockholm, Sweden) with label information consistent with data reported in Stål (1865).
Lectotype by present designation: Mexico / Guérin / Type / Typus [red] (NRM). Specimen lacks onychium of right mesotarsus and one claw of right metatarsus.
Habitus (Fig. 1 a). Length: 5.74 mm, width: 3.91 mm. Body shortly oval, rather convex. Head, mandibles, pronotum, scutellum, dark parts of elytra, epipleura, legs and ventral surfaces dark brown (darker dorsally on head, pronotum and scutellum), with a hint of bronze metallic sheen, less apparent on elytra. Labrum, antennae, base of mandibles, mouthparts and tarsi dark rufous. Broad marginal stripe and discal markings of elytra creamy yellow. Apex of mandibles black.
Head broad, sub-hypognathous, deeply inserted into prothorax; microreticulate, heavily punctured on frons, especially near and above eyes, almost unpunctured on vertex and at antennal calli; frontal suture weakly impressed, joining broadly V-shaped clypeal suture; supraocular sulcus deep, running close and slightly surpassing upper eye margin. Antennae reaching humeri, slightly clavate; scape thick, convex at anterior edge, broadest at apical 1/3, flattened posteriorly; second antennomere about 0.6x as long as scape, subcylindrical; third antennomere straight, slender, subclavate, slightly shorter than scape; fourth and seventh antennomeres about half as long as scape, fourth as longitudinally compressed version of third and seventh, compressed laterally and gradually widened apically; fifth and sixth antennomeres slightly shorter than previous two; antennomere eighth slightly longer than seventh, 0.9x as long as wide preapically; antennomeres 8–11 progressively longer, conspicuously dilated at apical 2/3, rugose, densely pubescent; antennomeres 1–6 glossy, nearly glabrous, antennomere seventh glabrous at narrow base, pubescent elsewhere. Clypeus densely microsculptured, with shallow punctation and fine translucent pale yellowish setae at angles near anterior border. Labrum relatively long, weakly concave basally at sides with regularly round angles and feebly emarginate apically; lateral lobes with slightly curved long translucent pale yellowish setae convergent medially. Mandibles strong; largely protruding beyond apex of labrum by twice its length; sides subparallel before strong preapical curvature, sparsely strongly punctured (the lectotype has its right mandible more developed than the left, which is not usual). Apical maxillary palpomere long, parallel sided, as broad or slightly narrower than apex of third palpomere, weakly narrowed at apex and slightly obliquely truncate; third palpomere as long as previous, weakly curved, strongly widened towards apex, shortly cylindrical at base; second palpomere longest, straight, club-shaped. Pronotum short, markedly transverse (width between posterior angles/length along midline; W/L=2.14), widest between posterior angles, with sides straight, converging to moderately produced anterior angles; sides margined, convex, concealing margin as seen from above; anterior border biconcave, finely margined, posterior border with marked median lobe, unmargined; surface microreticulate, rather coarsely punctured at sides of disc and laterally, punctures sometimes confluent, with scattered smaller punctures on disc and relatively strong elongated punctures confluent with basal border of pronotum laterally. Hypomeral suture moderately impressed, not reaching base of pronotum and slightly diverging from border of pronotum apically; hypomera depressed, rugose-punctate in sutural border, finely microreticulate elsewhere, smooth and shiny. Prosternum rather flat, microreticulate, wrinkled near procoxae, shiny in front; prosternal process narrow between procoxae, enlarged towards round angles and truncate apex. Mesepimera and mesanepisterna microreticulate, strongly punctured. Metanepisterna strongly punctured, with a single row of punctures at narrow apex. Metaventrite moderately strongly punctured at basal angles and laterally; punctures weaker and sparser elsewhere. Scutellum short, as long as wide at base, flat, microreticulate, with sides weakly convex to blunt apex. Elytra oval, with humeri weakly indicated, sides feebly convex and apex regularly round, finely margined dark; surface with homogeneously scattered very fine punctures and relatively strong punctures around and within pale markings; punctures in pale markings dark; scutellar row of 8–9 strong punctures present; first and second elytral intervals delimited by longitudinal arrangements of punctures, as well as last two intervals, but confused at humeral area. Pattern of markings on elytra including: (i) lateral and apical margins of elytra almost entirely pale with broad stripe reaching second premarginal row of punctures in humeral area and beyond elsewhere; pale marginal stripe interrupted before subsutural row of punctures at sutural angle of elytra and by trapezoidal, dark midlateral spot; stripe projecting one short lobe basally at humeral angle, reaching slightly beyond tip of scutellum, and three large roundish lobes laterally; basal premedian lobe elliptical, large, with narrow base and expanding longitudinally at apex; middle lobe placed behind middle, roundish; apical lobe on apical declivity, roundish, similar to previous; (ii) large irregular spot in scutellar angle, confluent with basal border of elytron, with two divergent lobes apically; inner lobe subtrapezoidal, completely surrounding scutellum, occupying first and second intervals, truncated in arc posteriorly at 2x scutellum length, narrowly interrupted at middle by fine dark line along first, presutural row of punctures; outer lobe elongated, about 1/3 longer than inner lobe, obliquely directed towards lateral declivity of elytron behind humerus, blunt at apex and narrowly separated medially from basal lobe of marginal stripe by dark line along line of punctures at internal humeral declivity, and basally by small subtriangular dark spot confluent with basal margin of elytron; (iii) two large longitudinally elongated spots on disc, beyond second longitudinal row of punctures; basal end of basal spot placed between lobes of basal marking, apical spot medially on disc, both spots narrowly separated at level with basal lobe of marginal stripe; (iv) large roundish spot on latero-apical declivity of elytron; (v) large irregular spot on apical declivity, beyond second longitudinal row of punctures; (vi) additional minute pale spot with diffuse margins basally on disc of elytron.
Suture completely dark except briefly in postscutellar area; dark area at apex narrowed gradually by pale marginal band. Femora straight, moderately widened at middle, finely microsculptured and sparsely punctured; tibiae straight, sparsely punctured, briefly and shallowly canaliculated at apical 1/3; ensemble tarsomeres shorter than corresponding tibiae, claws weakly divergent at base. Basal abdominal ventrite moderately strongly punctured, shagreened at sides, glossier at middle. Penis (Fig. 2 g, 2h) short, relatively broad and thick, with regularly curved dorsal profile in lateral view, nearly straight ventrally at apical 2/3; sides slightly divergent from base up to preapical lateral teeth, short, curved posteriorly, marking maximal penis width; apical border at very wide blunt obtuse angle with pronounced curved angles to lateral teeth.
Distribution. At present, the range of this species is best circumscribed to the Sierra Madre Occidental, from southern Arizona to the Sierra Madre de Chiapas in southern Mexico and Guatemala and El Salvador, with isolated spots in the Sierra Madre Oriental, including Chisos Mts., its northern spurs in southern Texas (Fig. 3 b). A few specimens were found with labels referring to exotic sources, but they need to be considered labelling mistakes, including these from Costa Rica, where the species has not been reported despite intensive sampling in the country carried out by INBio for more than two decades.
Material examined (201 specimens).
COLOMBIA. NHM: (1) one specimen: 67-56, Chry. multiguttata Stål, Bogota.
COSTA RICA. MfN: (1) one specimen: Costa Rica, Wagner. NHM: (1) one specimen: C. Rica, multiguttata Stål, Stål.
EL SALVADOR. MIZA: (1) one specimen: MIZA 0040488, El Salvador, Ahuachapan, Apaneca, 13.860000ºN 89.801110ºW, 17.viii.1959, J. Bechyné & B. Bechyné coll., Calligrapha multiguttata St. J. Bechyné det.
FRENCH GUYANA. NMCZ: (1) one specimen: Cayenne, Coll. Achard Mus. Pragense.
GUATEMALA. MCZ: (1) two specimens: Guatemala 5000, 1st Jacoby Collection; (2) five specimens: Guatem.; (3) one specimen: Guatemala, Coll. Van Patten; (4) one specimen: Tepan, Guatemala, Conradt, Jacoby 2nd Coll.; (5) two specimens: Gua. NHM: (1) one specimen: Guatemala, Godman-Salvin Coll., Biol. Centr.- Amer.; (2) one specimen: Guatemala City, Champion, Godman-Salvin Coll., Biol. Centr.-Amer.; (3) one specimen: Guatema. 55.71; (4) one specimen: Chimaltenango, Guatemala, Conradt., Godman-Salvin Coll., Biol. Centr.- Amer.; (5) one specimen: Guatemala, Sallé Coll., Calligrapha multiguttata Stål apud Sallé; (6) one specimen: Tepan, Guatemala, Conradt., Godman-Salvin Coll., Biol. Centr.-Amer. NMNH: (1) one specimen: Yepocapa, Guatemala, May 1948, H.T. Dalmat collector, Calligrapha multiguttata Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2011. OUMNH: (1) one specimen: Guatemª 55·71, From the Brit. Mus. Duplicates Pres. 1899.
MEXICO. EGRC: (1) one specimen: Mexico, Guerrero, 3.3km Cachuamilpa, 1495m, 2.vii.1992, C. Bellamy coll., Calligrapha multiguttata Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2011; (2) one specimen: Mexico, Chiapas, Sumidero Natl. Pk., 17.vi.1989, D. Thomas, H. Howden & R. Ratcliffe coll.; (3) one specimen: Mexico, Guerrero, Microondas at 10.7km N Iguala, 3800–4300ft, 21.ix.1989, R. Turnbow coll.; (4) one specimen: Mexico, Atencingo, 1.vi.1922, E.G. Smyth coll. FSCA: (1) four specimens: Mexico, Sonora, 9mi S Cananea, 16.ix.1970, K. Stephan coll.; (2) four specimens: Mexico, Sonora, Sierra del Ajos, Cyn de Evans, 17.ix.1970, K. Stephan coll. MCZ: (1) one specimen: Cuernavaca, Morelos, Höge; (2) six specimens: Apipilulco, Gro., Mex., Wickman [one with: Calligrapha multiguttata Stal]; (3) one specimen: Jacala, Hidalgo 4500 ft, 22.vi, Mexico 1939, Ralph Haag; (4) two specimens: Cuernavaca, Morelos, June H.H.S., Jacoby 2nd Coll.; (5) one specimen: Amula Guerrero 6000ft, Aug., H.H.S., Jacoby 2nd Coll.; (6) three specimens: Pte. de Ixtla, Mor. Mex., Wickham. MfN: (1) one specimen: 29815, multiguttata Stål, Mexico, Koppe; (2) one specimen: Guanajuato 21; (3) one specimen: Yantepec 25; (4) one specimen: Ventanas 17; (5) three specimens: Tepetlapa [one with: 589]; (6) two specimens: Tlaltizapan. NHM: (1) one specimen: Ex Mus. Murray, Mexico, Fry Coll. 1905.100; (2) one specimen: Yolos, Mexico, Sallé Coll., Calligrapha multiguttata Stål apud Sallé, Godman-Salvin Coll., Biol. Centr.-Amer.; (3) one specimen: Amula, Guerrero, 6000ft, Aug., H.H. Smith, Godman-Salvin Coll., Biol. Centr.-Amer.; (4) one specimen: Puebla, Mexico, Sallé Coll., 626, Calligrapha multiguttata Stål apud Sallé, Sp. figured, Godman-Salvin Coll., Biol. Centr.-Amer.; (5) one specimen: Chiapas, Mexico, Sallé Coll., 627, Calligrapha multiguttata var. Stål, Sp. figured, Godman- Salvin Coll., Biol. Centr.-Amer.; (6) one specimen: Ventanas, Mex., 2000ft, Forrer, Godman-Salvin Coll., Biol. Centr.-Amer.; (7) one specimen: Ex Coll. J. Sturm, Mexico B Chrys. alboguttata Mihi, Mexico, Sallé Coll., Calligrapha multipunctata Stål apud Sallé, Godman-Salvin Coll., Biol. Centr.-Amer.; (8) one specimen: Real de Arriba, Temescaltepec, Mex., 6–7000ft, 1932, B.M. 1959-100, H.E. Hinton, R.L. Usinger collectors; (9) one specimen: Real de Arriba, Temescaltepec, Mex., 1934, B.M. 1959-100, H.E. Hinton, R.L. Usinger collectors; (10) one specimen: Bejucos, Mex., Temescaltlepec, ca. 2000ft, vii.1933, B.M. 1959-100, Calligrapha multiguttata Stål, det. M. Daccordi 2000; (11) two specimens: Mexico, Temascaltepec Dist., Temascaltepec, 1933, ca. 5000ft, H.E. Hinton, R.L. Usinger, B.M. 1959-100. NMB: (1) one specimen: Mexico, Calligrapha multiguttata Stål J. Bechyné det. 1951. NMCZ: (1) one specimen: Mexique, ex coll. Chevrolat, multiguttata Stal J. Achard det., Coll. Achard Mus. Pragense; (2) one specimen: Guanajuato, Coll. Achard Mus. Pragense; (3) one specimen: Guanajuato, E. Dugés, Coll. Achard Mus. Pragense; (4) one specimen: Mex., Coll. Achard Mus. Pragense; (5) one specimen: Mexique, multiguttata Stål, Coll. Achard Mus. Pragense; (6) one specimen: Mexiq., Coll. Achard Mus. Pragense; (7) one specimen: Tepic (?), Sierra de Durango, Coll. Achard Mus. Pragense; (8) one specimen: [illegible], Sierra de Durango, Coll. Achard Mus. Pragense. NMNH: (1) one specimen: Cuernavaca, Mex., 12.26.0 0, 123, Calligrapha multiguttata Stål F. Monrós det. 1953; (2) one specimen: Mexico, Estado de Mexico, Tenancingo, 15.ix. 948, coll. Alfredo Barrera, F. Monrós Collection 1959, Calligrapha multiguttata Stål F. Monrós det. 1951; (3) one specimen: Sierra San José, Sonora, Mexico, 20 Sept. ’69, Calligrapha multiguttata Stål; (4) one specimen: Mexico, Dec 2, 1998, on Tillandsia concolor, Calligrapha multiguttata Stål Det. S.W. Lingafelter ’99; (5) four specimens: Mexico, Morelos, Cañón de Lobos 4300’, 9.1mi E Cuernavaca, vii.24.1966, George E. Ball, D.R. Whitehead collectors [one with: Calligrapha multiguttata Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2011]; (6) two specimens: Mexico, Veracruz, 22.0mi E Jalapa, Rte. 140, 1000’, iii. 9.66 in bromeliads, George E. Ball, D.E. Whitehead collectors; (7) three specimens: Pte. De Ixtla, Mor., Mex., Wickham, Wickham Collection 1933 [one with: Calligrapha multiguttata Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2011]; (8) one specimen: Monte Alban, Oaxaca, Mexico, 21.vii.63, Ackerman & Whitehead, Calligrapha multiguttata Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2011; (9) one specimen: Mexico, Puebla, 18km SE Tehuacan, 18º22’N 97º26’W, 12 July 1995, leg. D.G. Furth; (10) one specimen: Mexico, East Coast, 24.x.1972, D. Ladeey, bromeliads Lot 72-19724, Calligrapha sp. d. RWhite; (11) one specimen: Chiap. Mex., gift of FC Bowditch, gift ex MCZ dupl. series; (12) one specimen: Mexico, Hidalgo, 10-2-66, Pierce et al. with Selaginella plants, Bro. 89156, 66-7230; (13) one specimen: on Echinocactus flavovirens, San Luis Potosí Mex., vi.6. ’39, Laredo 16946; (14) one specimen: Cuernavaca, mex., 8-15-54, D.D. Dreisbach, F. Monrós Collection 1959, Calligrapha multiguttata Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2011; (15) two specimens: Mexico, Oaxaca, Tehuacan, Oaxaca Rd. Route 135D, km. #76, 18º15’N 97º26’W, 22–23 July 1997, leg. D.G. Furth [one with: Zygogramma sp. Det. C.L. Staines 2002, Calligrapha multiguttata Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2011]; (16) three specimens: Mexico, Sonora, ca. 5km W Yecora, 28º 21.613N 108º 56.995W, 1612m, 2 Aug 2007, leg. David G. Furth [one with: Calligrapha multiguttata Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2011]. NRM: (1) one specimen: Mexico, Tarnier. TAMUIC: (1) one specimen: X0536840, Mexico, Guerrero, 8mi SW Iguala, vii.10.1966, P.M. Wagner & P.K. Wagner coll.; (2) one specimen: X0549295, Mexico, Guerrero, 17mi E Tixtla, vii.11.1985, Jones & Schaffner coll.; (3) two specimens: [X0541511, X0550333] Mexico, Guerrero, 6mi E Xochipala, vii.6.1987, Woolley & Zolnerowich coll.; (4) one specimen: X0550892, Mexico, Morelos, 14km E Cuernavaca, ix.12.1969.
USA. EGRC: (1) two specimens: USA, Arizona, Huachuca Mts., Carr Peak, 23.vii.1961, A.R. Gillogly coll.; (2) one specimen: USA, Arizona, Huachuca Mts., Copper Cyn, 17.vii.1977, Scott McCleve coll.; (3) one specimen: USA, Arizona, Chiricahua Mtns., West Turkey Creek, 20.vi.1972, at light, Scott McCleve coll. FSCA: (1) two specimens: USA, Arizona, Pajarito Mts., Pena Blanca Cyn., 15.viii.1971, K. Stepha; (2) one specimen: USA, Arizona, Pajarito Mts., Pena Blanca, 9.ix.1969; (3) two specimens: USA, Arizona, Cochise Co., S.W. Res. Sta. 5– 6000 ft., 2.x.1958, H.V. Weems coll.; (4) four specimens: USA, Arizona, Santa Cruz Co., 17.viii.1975, Karl Stephan coll.; (5) three specimens: USA, Arizona, Cochise Co., Portal to Rustler Pk., 17.ix.1982, L.G. Bezark [one with: Calligrapha multiguttata (Stal) det. I. Askevold 1984]; (6) one specimen: USA, Texas, Brewster Co., Chisos Basin, Big Bend N.P., 21–23.vi.1979, F. Hovore coll. MCZ: (1) one specimen: Baboquivar Mts., Ariz., F.H. Snow, Liebeck Collection, C. multiguttata Stal; (2) one specimen: Huach. Mt., Ari., Liebeck Collection; (3) one specimen: Madera Cn., Sta. Rita Mts., Pima Co., Ariz., viii-8-1957, C.W. O’Brien, C.A. Frost Collection 1962; (4) two specimens: Arizona, Huach. Mts., 05-VIII-29, Schaefer, Frederick Blanchard Collection [one with: Chrysomela multiguttata Stal]; (5) one specimen: Huachuca Mts., Ariz., VII-21, Millers Cañon, Chrysomela multiguttata Stal, H.C. Fall Collection; (6) one specimen: Sta. Cruz Valley, Sta. Cruz Co., Ariz., Aug., D.K. Duncan, H.C. Fall Collection; (7) one specimen: Huach. Mt., Ari., Liebeck Coll., H.C. Fall Collection; (8) one specimen: Ariz., C. multiguttata Stal [LeConte Coll.]. MfN: (1) one specimen: Arizona, Cochise Co., Biederman. NMNH: (1) one specimen: Philodendrum from Cuernavaca Mor., Mex., Laredo Tex., 21.x.47; (2) one specimen: orchid from Guanajuato Mex., at Nogales Ariz., 27.i.48 – 1485; (3) one specimen: Chiric. Mts. Ariz., 1.7, Coll. Hubbard & Schwarz, 1435, Calligrapha multiguttata Stål; (4) two specimens: Huachuca Mts., Ariz., Collection F.
Knab [one with Calligrapha multiguttata Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2003]; (5) four specimens: Palmerlee, Cochise Co., Ariz., vi., Brooklyn Museum Colln 1929 [one with: Calligrapha multiguttata Stål Schaeffer det.; one with: Calligrapha multiguttata Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2003]; (6) one specimen: Palmerlee, Cochise Co., Ariz., viii, Brooklyn Museum Colln 1929; (7) one specimen: Palmerlee, Cochise Co., Ariz. Viii, Charles Schaeffer Collection, HSBarber Bequest 1950; (8) one specimen: Helianthus canus, Chisos Mts., B. Bend Tex., Houston 5627, vii-31- 49, 49-19141; (9) one specimen: Huachuca Mts., Ariz., vii-’05, 15682, Schaeffer Collection 1956; (10) three specimens: Huachuca Mts., Ariz., Charles Schaeffer Collection, HSBarber Bequest 1950 [one with: Calligrapha multiguttata Stål]; (11) five specimens: Huachuca Mts., Ariz., viii [3x] vi [1x] or vii-26 [1x], Charles Schaeffer Collection, HSBarber Bequest 1950; (12) three specimens: Huachuca Mts., Ariz., 0 5, 15682, Ernest Shoemaker Collection, HSBarber Bequest 1950 [one with: Calligrapha multiguttata Stål 15682] [one with: vii’05]; (13) six specimens: Portal, Arizona, 7.1968, Dr. Leuczy [one with: Calligrapha multiguttata Stål]; (14) six specimens: Sta. Rita Mts., Ariz., Madera Cn. 4600–5600’, Aug 30, 1969 [5x] Sept 21 1969 [1x], Coll. D. Richman; (15) one specimen: Portal, Az., 8/12/44, W.W. Jones, Calligrapha multipunctata Det. C.L. Staines 2004; (16) one specimen: Mexico 26.xi.65, T. Pigott with orchid plants, Nog.-91001, 66-548; (17) one specimen: Ari., Casey bequest 1925. TAMUIC: (1) one specimen: X0542466, USA, Southeast Arizona, Chochise Co., Carr Canyon & AZ rt. 92, vii.20.1975, Scott McCleve coll., on Baccharis. UASM: (1) one specimen: USA, Ariz., Huachuca Mts., vii.1926.
UNKNOWN SOURCE. MCZ: (1) four specimens: 1st Jacoby Coll.; (2) one specimen: multiguttis St., Horn Coll. H6816. MfN: (1) two specimens: [no data]. NHM: (1) four specimens: Baly Coll.; (2) one specimen: 59-57, Vigors’ Coll.; (3) one specimen: 55-24, 320, Baly Coll.; (4) one specimen: 13112, Mexico, Fry Coll. 1905.100; (5) one specimen: 67-56. NMNH: (1) one specimen: Mat. XI; (2) one specimen: gift ex MCZ dupl. series; (3) one specimen: Ecuador, 18.xi.63, E.B. Bauman with bananas, Jack 665, 63-26515, Calligrapha sp. prob. multiguttata Stål G.B. Vogt. NRM: (1) one specimen: Mus. Payk.; (2) one specimen: multiguttata Stål, Boliographa rubrolimbata Motsch. Am. centr. OUMNH: (1) one specimen: Named 1898 by M. Jacoby Calligrapha multiguttata Stal, 1773. ZSM: (1) one specimen: Calligrapha multiguttata Stal, Staatssammlung München 1975 Erwerb Coll. Machatschke.
Variation. The main variability in the species affects colouration, which can vary from rusty red to very dark brown, and also discal spots that can show different confluence patterns among them or with lobes of pale marginal band. The minute pale discal spot is usually missing and the midlateral spot is rarely free from lateral margin of elytron and sometimes almost disappearing, leaving a small dark trace briefly expanding from dark elytral margin. All spots are generally present, but they can be also reduced. For example, in one of the specimens from Chiapas (Mexico), originally from Auguste Sallé’s collection (now at NHM) and figured in the Biologia Centrali- Americana (fig. 6, Vol. VI, Pt. 1, Tab. 10), lateral pale lobes and discal spots are missing or longitudinally narrowed in the case of spots adjacent to sutural stripe, resulting in a large dark marking occupying most of the elytra. Dark background of punctures on pale areas can be appreciated by the naked eye, but in some specimens, the punctures are so delicate that magnification is needed to appreciate this character.
description: Published as part of Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, 2016, Systematic revision of Calligrapha Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) with pale spots on dark elytra and description of two new species, pp. 61-89 in Zootaxa 4072 (1) on pages 63-70, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4072.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/270656