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Issue: Vol. 4531 No. 3: 13 Dec. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-12-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4531.3.5
Page range: 395–418
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The bromeliad leaf-scraper tortoise beetle Spaethiella intricata (Boheman, 1850) from Brazil (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae), description of immatures and biology

Programa de Pós-graduação em Sistemática, Taxonomia Animal e Biodiversidade (Post-graduation program on Systematics, Animal Taxonomy and Biodiversity). Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 42494; 04218-970, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Programa de Pós-graduação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva. Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, A1-107, Bloco A, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, Cidade Universitária, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Coleoptera Hemisphaerotini immature larva morphology

Abstract

This publication describes the life history and morphology of the immatures of Spaethiella intricata associated with bromeliads. Immature stages were previously unknown for the species. Adults and larvae are bromeliad leaf scrapers. First and fifth instar larvae and pupa of S. intricata are described and illustrated with further discussion upon the epipharynx of some Cassidinae species belonging to few tribes. General observations of the known Hemisphaerotini immatures and adults are compared.

 

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