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

description: Key to species of Calligrapha with contrasting pattern of pale spots on dark background
1. Hypomeral suture obliterated. Apical expansion of penis clearly narrower than median tubular area (Fig. 2 i–j). Unknown origin...................................................................... Calligrapha pavimentata sp. nov.
-. Hypomeral suture impressed. Apical expansion of penis as broad or broader than median tubular area (Figs 2 a–h, 4a–d)... 2
2. Area around scutellum pale (Fig. 1 a). Double punctation on pale markings, including minute punctures and scattered dark punctures, the latter as large or larger than those on dark parts. Penis short, broad, with preapical lateral teeth very short, conspicuously produced backwards (Fig. 2 g–h). From southern US (Arizona and Texas) to El Salvador (Fig. 3 b)........................................................................................... Calligrapha multiguttata Stål
-. Periscutellar area dark (Figs 1 b–c, 5a–c). Single punctation on pale markings, weaker than on dark areas. Penis slender, with
prominent lateral acute teeth (Figs 2 a–f, 4a–d).............................................................. 3 3. Numerous spots on elytra (more than 15) (Fig. 1 b–c)........................................................ 4
-. Discrete number of spots (10–14) on elytra (Fig. 5 a–c)........................................................ 5
4. Epipleura completely dark. Transverse posthumeral area on elytra devoid of pale maculae. Basal marginal spot close to scutellum bilobed (Fig. 1 b). Legs and antennae pale rufous. Endemic to Mexico (Fig. 3 c).............. Calligrapha barda (Say)
-. Epipleura pale basally. Transverse posthumeral area on elytra with one spot beyond third interval. Basal marginal spot close to scutellum with three lobes (Fig. 1 c). Legs and antennae dark brown. Endemic to Mexico (Fig. 3 c)................................................................................................... Calligrapha zapoteca sp. nov.
5. Each elytron with ten pale spots; punctures on pale areas nearly as strong as on dark areas (Fig. 5 a). Longitudinal arrangements of punctures on elytra confused on disc and lateral declivity. From southern Mexico to El Salvador and Honduras (Fig. 3 a)....................................................................... Calligrapha vigintimaculata (Chevrolat)
-. Elytra with 12–14 pale spots, unpunctured or with minute punctures, smaller than these on dark parts of elytra (Fig. 5 b–c). Longitudinal arrangements of punctures on elytra relatively well indicated along suture, lateral declivity and basal half of elytra on dark areas................................................................................... 6
6. Legs and antennae blackish. Each elytron with 12–14 trapezoidal spots; transverse posthumeral area devoid of spots (Fig. 5 c). Disc of pronotum coarsely punctured. From Central Mexico (Fig. 3 a).................... Calligrapha stillatipennis Stål
-. Legs and antennae dark rufous. Each elytron with twelve medium-sized roundish spots; transverse posthumeral area with one median spot (Fig. 5 b). Disc of pronotum with fine punctures. From Guatemala and Nicaragua (Fig. 3 a)............................................................................................ Calligrapha panzoensis Bechyné
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 62-63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4072.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/270656