Diabrotica lemniscata LeConte

Species name

Diabrotica lemniscata LeConte 1868: 58

Type locality

Raton Mountain, New Mexico

Type depository

MCZ, lectotype, male, verified

Synonyms

nigrovittata Jacoby 1878: 995 (type locality: Mexico; type depository: MCZ, lectotype, male (?) [lacking abdomen], verified)

Diagnosis

Body length 4.6-5.4 mm. Body width 1.8-2.3 mm. Head basic color black. Antennae filiformfiliform:
slender antennae with antennomeres of similar shape
, uniformly black. 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
black, subquadrate, deeply bifoveate, not shagreened. Scutellumscutellum:
small, usually triangular shield between the bases of elytra
black. Elytra yellow or rufous, vittatevittate:
(here) marked by longitudinally extended maculae different from the basic color of elytron
with one sutural and one humeral black vittae (sometimes reduced to a variable extent). Elytral epipleura completely yellow. Sutural anglesutural angle:
the posterior angle or apex of the elytron near the suture
of elytra round, punctation dense, coarse. Abdomen piceous or black. Legs black. 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

USA: AZ, TX; Mexico, Guatemala. (Krysan & Smith, 1987a)

Host plants

Cucurbita foetidissima Kunth in H.B.K., perennial grasses (Poaceae) (Clark et al., 2004)