Sternostenoides Monros & Viana 1947: 267

Synonomys

None.

Type Species

Sternostenoides daguerrei Monrós & Viana.

Diagnosis

Sternostenoides can be distinguished by the following combination of characters:

• body slender parallel-sided
• the lateral margins of the 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 the elytra without long, stiff spines
• the head without a frontal horn
• the 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
  with a seta in each anterior angle, without two blunt teeth on anterior margin
• the apex of the elytra without a tooth-like projection
• the elytra with 8 rows of punctures for entire length and 3 regular costae, humerus rounded without spine or tooth
• the antennae thickened at apex, with 10-antennomeres
• leg with apical tarsomere bearing 2 claws, mesofemora with tooth
• anterior margin of prosternumprosternum:
  contains two anterior coxal cavities
  not expanding forward partly covering mouth

Description

Body elongate, subcylindrical.

Head: medial sulcus faint; fronsfrons:
upper anterior portion of head capsule above the clypeus
punctate; clypeusclypeus:
usually quadrangular, elongate; joined to the labrum
finely punctate, with longitudinal carina.

Antenna: with 10‑antennomeres; antennomeres 1 and 2 similar, wider than the next three; 3 to 5 lengthened; 6 shorter and wider than 5; 8 to 10 thicker than rest, forming a poorly defined club.

Pronotum: narrower than elytra, cylindrical; parallel-sided, slightly elongate; irregularly punctate.

Scutellum: quadrangular.

Elytron: lateral and apical margins finely dentate; apex conjointly rounded; with 8 rows of punctures plus scutellar row; tricostate, united on apical 1/5.

Leg: mesotibia strongly curved; mesofemur with short spine.

Venter: prosternumprosternum:
contains two anterior coxal cavities
with short median plate on anterior margin.

Distribution

Argentina.

World Fauna

Described species: 1- Sternostenoides daguerrei Monrós & Viana (Staines 2012).

Hosts

Unknown.

References

Monrós, F. & M. J. Viana. 1947. Revisión sistemática de los Hispidae Argentinos (Insecta, Coleop. Chrysomeloid.). Anales del Museo Argentino Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" 42:125-324.

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