Diabrotica bipartita Jacoby

Species name

Diabrotica bipartita Jacoby 1887: 508

Type locality

Panama, V. de Chiriqui

Type depository

BMNH, lectotype, male, verified

Diagnosis

Body length 4.3-4.4 mm. Body width 1.7-1.8 mm. Head basic color black. Antennae filiformfiliform:
slender antennae with antennomeres of similar shape
, bi- or tricolored, antennomeres 1-3 yellow, upper sides darkened, antennomeres 4-8 gradually infuscated by brown, antennomeres 9-10 uniformly yellow ocher, antennomereantennomere:
"segment" of antenna, more or less clearly separated
11 completely dark (cinnamon brown). Maxillary palpi and labrumlabrum:
the "upper lip" of beetles, a movable sclerite joined under clypeus
black. Pronotumpronotum:
the notum of the prothorax with highly sclerotized pronotal disc
yellow or light cadmium, subquadrate, deeply bifoveate, not shagreened. Scutellumscutellum:
small, usually triangular shield between the bases of elytra
yellow. Elytra black or piceous, with two sulphur yellow bandsbands:
(here) transverse maculae on the beetle elytra
, one - in the middle, another - at the apexapex:
<em>(pl. apices)</em> the far distal end of a structure; opposite of base
. Elytral epipleura completely yellow. Sutural anglesutural angle:
the posterior angle or apex of the elytron near the suture
of elytra round, punctation scattered, coarse. Abdomen yellow. Male protibiaeprotibiae:
tibiae of fore legs
thickened. Tarsi and tibiae black or chestnut, femora uniform yellow. Aedeagusaedeagus:
the main sclerotized part of the male genitalia; "aedeagus" is used here instead of "median lobe of aedeagus"
symmetric, with three internal sac scleritessclerites:
(here) the sclerotized hooks, spines or plates in the internal sac
.

Known distribution

Panama

Host plants

Unknown

             Diabrotica bipartita Jacoby, paralectotype,   male, habitus, dorsal view

Diabrotica bipartita Jacoby, paralectotype, male, habitus, dorsal view

             Diabrotica bipartita Jacoby, paralectotype, habitus,   lateral view

Diabrotica bipartita Jacoby, paralectotype, habitus, lateral view

             Diabrotica bipartita Jacoby, paralectotype, internal sac,   ventral view

Diabrotica bipartita Jacoby, paralectotype, internal sac, ventral view

             Diabrotica bipartita Jacoby, paralectotype, internal sac,   lateral view at right

Diabrotica bipartita Jacoby, paralectotype, internal sac, lateral view at right

             Diabrotica bipartita Jacoby, paralectotype, internal sac,   lateral view at left

Diabrotica bipartita Jacoby, paralectotype, internal sac, lateral view at left

             Diabrotica bipartita Jacoby, paralectotype, MCZ,   labels

Diabrotica bipartita Jacoby, paralectotype, MCZ, labels

             Diabrotica bipartita Jacoby, lectotype,   BMNH, labels

Diabrotica bipartita Jacoby, lectotype, BMNH, labels