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