Diabrotica mitteri Derunkov, et al.

Species name

Diabrotica mitteri Derunkov, Prado, Tishechkin, Konstantinov 2015: 31

Type locality

Bugaba, Panama

Type depository

USNM, holotype, male

Diagnosis

Body length 5.8-6.5 mm. Body width 2.8-3.4 mm. Head basic color black. Antennae filiformfiliform:
slender antennae with antennomeres of similar shape
, uniformly yellow ocher. Maxillary palpi black or chestnut, 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 yellow ocher, quadrate, bifoveate, with small round foveae, not shagreened. Scutellumscutellum:
small, usually triangular shield between the bases of elytra
yellow. Elytra yellow or rufous, with two metallic black blue bandsbands:
(here) transverse maculae on the beetle elytra
, one at the base, another behind the middle. Elytral epipleura completely yellow, sutural anglesutural angle:
the posterior angle or apex of the elytron near the suture
of elytra round, punctation scattered, fine. Abdomen yellow or yellow ocher. Legs yellow or yellow ocher. Aedeagusaedeagus:
the main sclerotized part of the male genitalia; "aedeagus" is used here instead of "median lobe of aedeagus"
symmetric, with five internal sac scleritessclerites:
(here) the sclerotized hooks, spines or plates in the internal sac
.

Known distribution

Panama

Host plants

Unknown

Potential problems with identification

Diabrotica mitteri is very similar to D. godmani Jacoby and D. hartjei. They can be separated by the following features: the color of bandsbands:
(here) transverse maculae on the beetle elytra
on elytra of D. mitteri is metallic black blue, but metallic black green in D. godmani; basalbasal:
of or pertaining to the base, as in the first, or basal segment of an appendage; opposite of apical
band on the elytra of D. mitteri lacks maculae and spots, but with two small yellow spots in D. hartjei; the armament of the internal sac is quite different in all three species.