Diabrotica semiflava Jacoby

Species name

Diabrotica semiflava Jacoby 1887: 523

Type locality

Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui

Type depository

BMNH, lectotype, female, verified

Diagnosis

Body length 4.5-4.6 mm. Body width 2.3-2.5 mm. Head basic color black. Antennae filiformfiliform:
slender antennae with antennomeres of similar shape
, uniformly yellow ocher. Maxillary palpi yellow, 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 mustard yellow, subquadrate, weakly bifoveate, with wide shallow foveae, not shagreened. Scutellumscutellum:
small, usually triangular shield between the bases of elytra
black. Elytra green, with two humeral and one sutural black small maculae (around scutellumscutellum:
small, usually triangular shield between the bases of elytra
) and two transverse black maculae behind the middle of elytra. Elytral epipleura completely green, sutural anglesutural angle:
the posterior angle or apex of the elytron near the suture
of elytra round, punctation scattered, fine. Abdomen yellow. Tarsi yellow, tibiatibia:
<em>(pl. tibiae)</em> the forth part of the beetle leg articulated with femur on the one side and with tarsus on the other side
bicolored, yellow, outer edge with piceous or testaceous line, or extensively darkened. Femora pale olivine.

Known distribution

Panama

Host plants

Unknown