(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae)
Blepharida Chevrolat
Blepharida sacra |
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Blepharida sacra |
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Distribution: Southeastern Mediterranean region; Oriental
region; Afrotropical region; New World.
Statistics: 1 species in Palearctic, about 60 species
worldwide.
Host Plants: Rhus, Schinus
(Frost 1973).
Diagnosis: Body large, convex,
cylindrical, comparatively broad. Color yellow, brown or
dark brown sometimes with light metallic lustre and dark or light
stripes and spots on elytron.
Head hypognathous, broadly oval, flat anteriorly.
Frontal ridge very wide. Antennal calli absent. Frontal furrow
visible only above frontal ridge. Orbital line very indistinct,
consisting of several deep wrinkles directed toward dorsal side
of eye. Space between these wrinkles and eyes covered with deep
and large punctures. Interantennal space wider than transverse
diameter of eye. Clypeus and labrum short. Antennal furrows well
developed. Antenna 11-segmented, filiform.
Pronotum wide, posteriorly sinuate, with two
semicircular rows of large punctures anteriorly. Lateral margins
broad, prominent. Procoxal cavity closed behind. Intercoxal
prosternal process narrow, broadly explanate posteriorly.
Mesosternum shorter and wider.
Elytra broad semicylindrical, with well developed
humeral calli. Punctures arranged in striae; interspaces narrow
and convex. Epipleuron subvertical, comparatively wide, not
reaching posterolateral elytral margin.
Metafemur swollen. Tibiae comparatively short,
notably thickened apically. Meso- and metatibiae with obtuse
tooth beyond middle followed by excavation having marginal row of
stiff bristles. Metatibial spine inserted laterally. First
metatarsal segment comparatively short, not longer than following
two segments combined.
