Coelaenomenodera (Anomalispa) Gestro 1909b: 229

Synonomys

None.

Type Species

Anomalispa crioceriformis Gestro.

Diagnosis

Coelaenomenodera (Anomalispa) can be distinguished by the following combination of characters:

• lateral margin of pronotumpronotum:
  occupies all of dorsal part of the prothorax; in anterior angles or posterior angles there may be a small tubercle or pore with a seta
  and elytra without long, stiff spines
• head without frontal horn between antennae
• pronotum pronotum:
  occupies all of dorsal part of the prothorax; in anterior angles or posterior angles there may be a small tubercle or pore with a seta
  with seta in each angle, flattened, never constricted basally, anterior margin not projecting over head, with 1 to 3 deep depressions, anterior ½ glabrous
• anterior margin of prosternumprosternum:
  contains two anterior coxal cavities
  not projecting forward, not partly covering mouth
• less than 14 mm in length
• antennae with 11-antennomeres, antennomere 3 shorter than 1 and 2 combined, apical antennomeres without sensory pits on lower surface
• elytra with interspace 7 carinate apically

Description

Elongate; convex; shining; yellow-brown with black markings.

Head: large; vertexvertex:
occupies the area behind and between the eyes
impunctate.

Antenna: reaches humerus; antennomere 1 thickened apically; 2 oblong; 3 thinner, slightly longer than 2, shorter than 1; 4 and 6 subequal in length, each a little shorter than 3; 7 longer and wider than 6; 8 longer than 7, expanded medially; 9 to 11 as wide as 8, shorter, close to one another; anterior ½; apical antennomeres without sensory pits on lower surface.

Pronotum: longer than wide; disc convex; lateral margin straight; anterior angle obliquely truncate; anterior margin broadly rounded, slightly emarginate medially, not projecting over head; posterior angle acute, projecting; posterior margin strongly bisinuate; surface irregularly sparsely punctate laterally; with 1 to 3 deep depressions; depressed on each side posteriorly; anterior ½ glabrous.

Scutellum: triangular, apex rounded; impunctate.

Elytron: lateral margin straight; apex rounded; humerus slightly angulate, not produced; surface with 10 regular rows of punctures; interspace 7 slightly carinate apically.

Leg: long; robust; femurfemur:
largest part of the leg; more or less cylindrical, attached at base to trochanter and at apex to tibia
swollen, meso- and metatibiae curved.

Distribution

Madagascar.

World Fauna

Described species: 2 (Staines 2012). Key: none.

Hosts

Unknown.

References

Gestro, R. 1909b. Materiali por lo studio delle Hispidae. XXXVII. Saggio sulle Hispidae di Madagascar. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova (3)4(44):221-301.

Staines, C. L. 2012. Tribe Coelaenomenoderini. Catalog of the hispines of the world (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). http://entomology.si.edu/Collections_Coleoptera.html