Diabrotica piceonotata Jacoby

Species name

Diabrotica piceonotata Jacoby 1887: 531

Type locality

Bugaba, Panama

Type depository

BMNH, holotype, male, verified

Diagnosis

Body length 8.5-8.7 mm. Body width 4.2-4.4 mm. Head basic color green. Antennae filiformfiliform:
slender antennae with antennomeres of similar shape
, antennomeres 1-5 light cadmium, 6-7 gray, 8-10 sulphur yellow, 11 cinnamon brown. Maxillary palpi black or amber brown, labrumlabrum:
the "upper lip" of beetles, a movable sclerite joined under clypeus
black or piceous. Pronotumpronotum:
the notum of the prothorax with highly sclerotized pronotal disc
green or cress green, infuscated, subquadrate, nonfoveate, shagreened with microsculptural narrow, long meshes. Scutellumscutellum:
small, usually triangular shield between the bases of elytra
black. Elytra uniformly cress green, narrowly margined with chestnut. Elytral epipleura completely green, sutural anglesutural angle:
the posterior angle or apex of the elytron near the suture
of elytra dentiform, punctation scattered, fine. Abdomen chestnut. Tarsomeres 1-2 pale olivine, 3-4 chestnut, tibiae pale olivine, femora black or chestnut. Aedeagusaedeagus:
the main sclerotized part of the male genitalia; "aedeagus" is used here instead of "median lobe of aedeagus"
symmetric, with five internal sac scleritessclerites:
(here) the sclerotized hooks, spines or plates in the internal sac
.

Known distribution

Panama

Host plants

Unknown