Aslamidium (Neoaslamidium) strandi New Combination.
Creators: name: Staines, C. L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Aslamidium
Aslamidium strandi

description: Aslamidium (Neoaslamidium) strandi (Uhmann) New Combination
Figure 3
Demothispa strandi Uhmann 1930:213 [Type depository: DEI]; Uhmann 1937:202.
Demotispa strandi Uhmann. Uhmann 1948:218, 1950:336, 1957:13; Blackwelder 1946:718; Papp 1953:11; Wilcox 1975:136; Flowers & Janzen 1997:353.
Aslamidium strandi (Uhmann) New Combination.
The genus Demotispa has been a catch­all genus for species belonging in Aslamidium Borowiec, Cephaloleia Chevrolat, Parimatidium Spaeth, and Stilpnaspis Weise. This species is congeneric with Aslamidium.
New records
Panama, Bocas del Toro Prov., 750m, 8°49N; 83°12’W, 7 June 1997, D.M. Windsor, from Calathea sp. (STRI, 3); Panama, Bocas del Toro Prov., Rio Teribe, Wekso St.; 9°23N; 82°39W, 22­I­2000, D.M. Windsor (STRI, 2).
Distribution Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama.
Plant associations Spermacoce sp. [Rubiaceae] (Flowers & Janzen 1997), probably not the true host plant; Calathea sp. [Marantaceae].
Key to the species of Aslamidium
1. Body broadly oval, elytra rounded at sides, base of elytra only slightly wider than base of pronotum; pronotum trapezoidal with lateral margin regularly converging anteriorly ..................................................................... Aslamidium (s. str.)...2 ­ Body narrow, elytra almost parallel­sided, base of elytra distinctly wider than base of pronotum; pronotum rectangular, lateral margin on basal half nearly parallel or slightly convergent posteriorly ........................... Aslamidium (Neoaslamidium) ...8 2(1). No elytral intervals two times the width of puncture rows; Colombia, Ecuador, French Guyana, Panama, Peru, Venezuela .......................... semicirculare (Olivier) ­ Some elytral intervals two times the width of puncture rows ................................ 3 3(2). Elytral intervals near the suture two times the width of puncture rows ................. 4 ­ Elytral intervals on sides two times the width of puncture rows............................ 5 4(3). Antennomeres I and II combined longer than III; explanate margin of elytra coarsely punctate, surface appears partly rugose; Bolivia ...... bolivianum Borowiec ­ Antennomeres I and II combined shorter than III; explanate margin of elytra impunctate, smooth; Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela ........................ ............................................................................quaturodecimmaculata (Latreille) 5(3). Antennomeres I and II combined longer than III; Ecuador. ecuadoricum Borowiec
­ Antennomeres I and II combined shorter than III .................................................. 6
6(5). Pronotal impressions densely punctate; explanate margin of elytra without transverse bands; Ecuador ....................................................................... coca Borowiec
­ Pronotal impressions sparsely punctate; explanate margin of elytra with three complete transverse bands ..................................................................................... 7
7(6). Antennomeres I and II combined longer than IV; explanate margin of elytra coarsely punctate, surface appears partly rugose; Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guyana, Peru, Venezuela ............................................ capense (Herbst)
­ Antennomeres I and II combined shorter than IV; explanate margin of elytra impunctate, smooth; Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama ............................................. impurum (Boheman)
8(1). Lateral margin of pronotum dentate ....................................................................... 9
­ Lateral margin of pronotum smooth ..................................................................... 10
9(8). Antennomere I subequal in length to III; pronotum with small black spot near scutellum; elytra yellow with black transverse bands and spots; Ecuador, Peru ...... .................................................................................................... lescheni Borowiec
­ Antennomere I shorter than III; pronotum with medial black vitta; elytra brownish with yellow spots; Colombia, Ecuador, Panama ...................................................... ........................................................................ flavomaculata Staines, New Species
10(8). Elytral punctures uniform in size.......................................................................... 11
­ Elytral punctures not uniform in size.................................................................... 12
11(10). Antennomere I subequal in length to III; humeral area of elytra with black spot; Colombia ................................................................... lepidum Staines, New Species
­ Antennomere I longer than III; humeral area of elytra with yellow spot; Peru ........ .................................................................................................... formosum (Spaeth)
12(10). Elytral punctures smaller on disc than on sides; elytra yellow with black transverse bands and black spots; Ecuador ........................................ pichinchaensis Borowiec
­ Elytral punctures larger on disc than on sides; elytra brownish with yellow spots; Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama ................................................... strandi (Uhmann)
description: Published as part of Staines, C. L., 2006, A new combination and two new species of Aslamidium Borowiec (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae), pp. 61-68 in Zootaxa 1195 on pages 65-67, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2646243