Monagonia Uhmann 1931e: 2

Synonomys

None.

Type Species

Agonia serena Weise.

Diagnosis

Monagonia 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 posterior angle
• elytra without scutellar row of punctures
• tarsi with 1 claw, orad directed; not thick at base

Description

Body slender; color yellow-brown with black markings; total length 4.9 to 6.0 mm.

Head: large; vertexvertex:
occupies the area behind and between the eyes
smooth; eyeeye:
elongate, slightly prominent, multifaceted; usually slightly kidney-shaped
large, rounded.

Antenna: with 11-antennomeres; short; as long as head and 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
combined; antennomere 1 longer than 2, obconic, thick; 2 thick, cylindrical; 3 to 10 subequal in length, each shorter than 2, cylindrical; 11 rounded at apex.

Pronotum: conical; lateral margin straight; anterior angle weakly angulate; anterior margin straight; posterior angle acute; posterior margin weakly sinuate; convex; surface irregularly punctate; with 2 weak basal impressions.

Scutellum: quadrate; rounded at apex.

Elytron: lateral margin straight, smooth; exterior apical angle and apex rounded; humerus rounded, not produced; with 8 rows of punctures, additional rows present between rows 3 and 4 after middle; tricostate, costa 3 more developed.

Leg: long, slender; tarsi with 1 claw, orad directed, not thick at base.

Distribution

Indonesia, Vietnam.

World Fauna

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

Hosts

Unknown.

References

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

Uhmann, E. 1931e. Hispinen aus Sumatra (31. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Hispinen (Col. Chrys.)). Miscellanea Zoologica Sumatrana 54:1‑4.