Omophoita personata
Creators: name: Begha, Bruno Piotrovski
name: Anjos, Camila Alves Dos
name: Santos, Mateus Henrique
name: Prado, Laura Rocha
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Omophoita
Omophoita personata

description: Omophoita personata (Illiger, 1807)
(Figs 10, 17, 21, 27)
References: Illiger 1807: 138 (Haltica); Bousquet & Bouchard 2013: 125 (Haltica) Weise 1921: 141; Blackwelder 1945: 709; Bechyné 1951a: 109; Bechyné 1955a: 4; Bechyné & Bechyné 1957a: 68; Bechyné 1957b: 19; Bechyné 1958a: 676; Bechyné 1959: 348; Scherer 1960: 257; Bechyné & Bechyné 1964a: 137 (Homophoeta); Sturm 1843: 281; Blackwelder 1945: 708; Bechyné & Bechyné’s unpublished catalog: 297.
Type (Syntype): Haltica personata, Illiger 1807: 86; Brazil, Bahia. Collector: Gomez. Deposit institution: Museum f̧r Naturkunde, Germany.
Length: 7,29–8,91 mm.
Head: black. Large pale macula extending to the vertex, rounded. Two pale maculae visible at the lower portion of the frons. Mouthparts: labrum with 12 setae. Antennae: black.
Prothorax: pronotum yellowish. Metathorax and mesothorax: with the same color as the head. Elytra: elytral integument reddish. Six large rectangular pale maculae visible; maculae equidistant, two in the proximal portion of the elytra, two in the median portion and two in the distal portion. Scutellum triangular, posterior portion rounded. Legs: black.
Abdomen: brownish. Male Aedeagus Median lobe (Fig. 21): ventral sclerite visible in dorsal view; longer than the sides of the median lobe, apex acuminated. Dorsal median process visible; proximal portion of the dorsal median process and apex with subequal width; with two wide divergent projections at the apex, triangular-shaped. Dorsal lateral sclerites visible, subtrapezoid, poorly defined. Oblique dorsal process ventrally curved. Female Tignum (Fig. 27): Base wider than the apex; hood-like structure in the median portion present (Fig. 4); median portion opaque; distal portion slender, lateral margins divergent; apex rounded.
Specimens studied: BRAZIL: Mato Grosso: Rosário Oeste, Dirings, I.1972 (MZUSP); Minas Gerais: Pouso Alegre, Pereira & Medeiros, I.1960 1 ♁ (MZUSP); Paraná, Ponta Grossa, Camargo, II.1939 1 ♀; Ponta Grossa, Camargo, XII.1938 1 ♁ (MZUSP); Rio Negro, No collector (IB-SP); Rio Grande do Sul, Marcelino Ramos, No collector, 13.X.1939 (MZUSP); Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Dirings, XII.1956 (MZUSP); Timbó, Dirings, I.1964 (MZUSP); São Paulo, Barueri, Papavero & Lenko, 10.VII.1963 (MZUSP); Cássia dos Coqueiros, Barreto, M. P., X.1954 (MZUSP); Ipiranga, Moreira 7.X.1943, 1F (MZUSP); Maripor „, Costa, C., 13.I.1967 (MZUSP); Rio Preto, Dirings, XI.1938 (MZUSP); S„o Paulo, Ipiranga (MZUSP).
Observed distribution in the Southern Brazil: Paraná (Ponta Grossa, Rio Negro), Rio Grande do Sul (Marcelino Ramos) and Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, Itapiranga, Nova Teutônia, Timbó) (Fig. 33).
description: Published as part of Begha, Bruno Piotrovski, Anjos, Camila Alves Dos, Santos, Mateus Henrique & Prado, Laura Rocha, 2023, Checklist of Omophoita Chevrolat, 1836 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini) and diagnoses for some species from southern Brazil: notes on the taxonomic history, redescriptions and new records, pp. 375-397 in Zootaxa 5357 (3) on pages 387-388, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5357.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/10061420