Diabrotica impressipennis Jacoby

Species name

Diabrotica impressipennis Jacoby 1887: 531

Type locality

Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama

Type depository

BMNH, lectotype, female, verified

Diagnosis

Body length 6.8-8.3 mm. Body width 3.2-3.7 mm. Head basic color orange or rufous. Antennae filiformfiliform:
slender antennae with antennomeres of similar shape
, bi- or tricolored, antennomeres 1-3 uniformly yellow, antennomeres 4-8 gradually infuscated, antennomeres 9-10 light cadmium, antennomereantennomere:
"segment" of antenna, more or less clearly separated
11 brussels brown. Maxillary palpi black, chestnut or yellow ocher, labrumlabrum:
the "upper lip" of beetles, a movable sclerite joined under clypeus
black, chestnut or amber brown. Pronotumpronotum:
the notum of the prothorax with highly sclerotized pronotal disc
ochraceous orange, amber brown, chestnut, red or rufous, quadrate, deeply bifoveate, shagreened with minute wrinkles. Scutellumscutellum:
small, usually triangular shield between the bases of elytra
black, orange rufous or amber brown. Elytra uniformly paris green or yellow ocher. Elytral epipleura completely yellow or completely green, surface not sulcatesulcate:
bearing the carinae or ridges on the elytron
, transversely depressed before and behind the middle, the intervening space at sides with a semilunate depression. Sutural angle of elytra dentiform, punctation dense, fine. Abdomen yellow, yellow ocher or chestnut. Tarsi black or amber brown, tibiae uniform black or chestnut. Femora uniform yellow, yellow ocher or paris green. Aedeagusaedeagus:
the main sclerotized part of the male genitalia; "aedeagus" is used here instead of "median lobe of aedeagus"
symmetric, with four internal sac scleritessclerites:
(here) the sclerotized hooks, spines or plates in the internal sac
.

Known distribution

Panama

Host plants

Unknown