Calligrapha consputa Stal 1860
Creators: name: Gómez-Zurita, Jesús
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Calligrapha
Calligrapha consputa

description: Calligrapha consputa Stål, 1860
Stål, C. 1860: 462.
(Figs 3 a, 4c, 4f, 5)
Chrysomela consputa: Stål, 1865, Mon. Chrys. Amer., 3, p. 275.
Calligrapha consputa: Gemminger & Harold, 1874, Cat. Col., XI, p. 3432. Calligrapha consputa: Jacoby, 1882, Biol. Centr. Am., vol. 6, pt. 1, p. 196. Calligrapha consputa: Dugés, 1901, Cat. Col. Coleópt. Mex., p. 97.
Polyspila consputa: Weise, 1916, Col. Cat., pars 68, 12, p. 39.
Calligrapha consputa: Blackwelder, 1946, Checklist Col., Pt. 4, p. 674.
Calligrapha consputa: Wilcox, 1975, Checklist, Biol. Res. Inst. Amer., p. 66. Calligrapha consputa: Burgos-Solorio & Anaya-Rosales, 2004, Acta Zool. Mex. 20(3), p. 46.
Holotype: Oaxaca / Sallé / Type / Typus [red] (NRM). The holotype lacks seven apical antennomeres of right antenna and the claws of the right mesotarsus appear broken.
Habitus (Fig. 3 a). Length: 9.00 mm, width: 5.86 mm. Body elongated oval, moderately convex. Head, base of mandibles, pronotum, scutellum, ventral surfaces and legs black with bronzy metallic gloss. Labrum, basal antennomeres ventrally, apex of clypeus, apex of mandibles, knees, claws, epipleura and elytral markings dark rufous. Apical antennomeres and dorsum of basal antennomeres darkened. Abdominal segments with rufous tint. Ground of elytra creamy yellow.
Head sparsely punctured, smooth on antennal calli; supraocular sulci impressed, long, from antennal calli reaching well behind the eye; clypeal suture broadly U-shaped. Antennae slender but short, reaching humeri; first antennomere long, thick, posteriorly curved; antennomeres 2–6 elongated, thin, relatively smooth and nearly glabrous, second less than half as long as first, third nearly as long as first; antennomeres 3–6 shortening progressively, but sixth longer than second, and segments lengthening gradually beyond sixth antennomere, latest longer than first; antennomeres 7–11 thicker, and 8–11 rugose and pubescent; eighth antennomere 0.65x as wide as long. Labrum relatively short, emarginate anteriorly. Mandibles strong, largely protruding beyond labrum; external border feebly concave. Last segment of maxillary palpi large, with sides divergent, truncated obliquely at apex. Pronotum transverse (W/L=1.77), margined laterally and apically; surface microreticulate; rather densely, strongly punctured on disc, punctures larger, confluent towards sides. Hypomeral suture strongly impressed, not reaching base of pronotum basaly and gradually diverging from pronotal border towards apex; hypomera shagreened, unpunctured. Prosternal process truncated at apex; longitudinally carinated. Metanepisterna strongly punctured. Metaventrite with few relatively strong basal punctures, homogeneously sparse fine punctures elsewhere. Scutellum short (W/L=0.96), flat and smooth, microreticulate. Elytral punctures strong around and within markings; pale surface almost unpunctured except for premarginal dense row of finer punctures; scutellar row present. Elytral margin dark; numerous dark markings on elytra, most prominent being: (i) sutural stripe entire, width nearly constant from base, surrounding scutellum, to sudden preapical narrowing; (ii) subsutural stripe entire, confluent with sutural stripe from scutellar area nearly to elytral apex; (iii) basal arm of arcuate band slightly oblique, largely confluent with subsutural stripe; apical arm of arcuate band slightly divergent from suture as irregular spot connected to subsutural stripe; (iv) humeral spot large, irregularly delimited apically owing to confluence with additional minor markings; (v) humeral lunule large, confluent with humeral spot at basal half; apical half obliquely produced towards suture, surpassing posteriorly basal end of arcuate band; (vi) spot enclosed by humeral lunule large, occupying most of space between lunule and subsutural stripe, ovoid with loosely defined basal margin and enclosing a small pale spot; (vii) spot of apical declivity large, irregular, connected to subsutural stripe by dark suffusions; (viii) apical spot present and irregularly delimited; (ix) midlateral spot elliptical and elongated (covering eight premarginal line punctures), free from elytral dark margin; (x) most of free area of elytra occupied by many marks and spots of heterogeneous sizes and shapes; pale area among spots usually as wide as diameter of punctures surrounding markings. Tibiae externally canaliculated from 1/2 to 1/3 of their length, with some longitudinal ridges within. Abdominal ventrites finely punctured. Penis figured in Figs 4 c, 4f.
Distribution. This species is restricted to the Pacific slopes of the Sierra Madre del Sur in the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca in Mexico (Fig. 5, white circles). This species is only found in the Caribbean Mesoamerican domain.
Material examined (21 specimens).
MEXICO
EGRC: (1) one specimen: Mexico, Oaxaca, 5 mi S Candelaria Loxicha, 18–19.vii.1974, Clark, R.R. Murray, J.S. Ashe, Joseph C. Schaffner coll. MCZ: (1) one specimen: Panistlahuca, Mexico, Salle Coll., 1st Jacoby Coll. MfN: (1) one specimen: Mexico, v. Studt, Calligrapha consputa det. Daccordi '80. NHM: (1) one specimen: named by Stål, Baly Coll., consputa Stål Mexico; (2) two specimens: Oax., Baly Coll.; (3) one specimen: Oax., 143, consputa Stål, 67-56; (4) one specimen: Mex., consputa Stål, 67-56; (5) one specimen: Panistlahuca, Mexico, Sallé Coll., Calligrapha consputa Stål apud Sallé, Godman-Salvin Coll., Biol. Centr.-Amer.; (6) one specimen: Panistlahuca, 640, Calligrapha consputa Stål apud Sallé, Sp. figured, Godman-Salvin Coll., Biol. Centr.-Amer. NMB: (1) one specimen: Mexico, Calligrapha consputa Stal J. Bechyne det. 1954 2. NRM: (1) one specimen: Oaxaca, Sallé. TAMUIC: (1) two specimens: [X0536352 and X0538391], Mexico, Oaxaca, 5 mi S Candelaria Loxicha, 18–19.vii.1974, Clark, R.R. Murray, J.S. Ashe, Joseph C. Schaffner coll.; (2) two specimens: [X0536353 and X0547093], Mexico, Guerrero, Hwy95 on Hwy200, 2.8 km W Veintidos, James E. Wappes; (3) one specimen: X0548166, Mexico, Oaxaca, 4.7 mi S San Gabriel Mixtepec, 16.vii.1985, Robert W. Jones & Joseph C. Schaffner.
UNKNOWN SOURCE
MCZ: (1) one specimen: Calligrapha signata Ol., diversa Dj., Hagewisch, Calligrapha consputa Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2010; (2) one specimen: Calligrapha consputa Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2011; (3) one specimen: 172, CM, ex. Chev. coll.?, Calligrapha consputa Stål J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2011.
Variation. The pale minute spot within the spot enclosed by humeral lunule can be absent, but it is always indicated by the punctures associated with it. The midlateral spot can be narrow, as a dark line covering a line of punctures of the premarginal row, or more rarely, in particularly dark specimens, can emit dark suffusions laterally confluent with dark margin of elytra. Pale surface of elytra can be greatly reduced by spot confluence.
description: Published as part of Gómez-Zurita, Jesús, 2015, Systematic revision of the genus Calligrapha Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae) in Central America: The group of Calligrapha argus Stål, pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 3922 (1) on pages 16-17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3922.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/287929