Murgantia varicolor (Westwood, 1837)

Distribution. USA, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, and Brazil.

Distribution in Colombia. Unknown. This species was recorded for Colombia by Kirkaldy (1909), but without specific locality.

Remarks. Murgantia varicolor has the head dark dorsally with five pale spots, a pair oval on the mandibular plates, and a pair elongated on the anteocular region, and one longitudinal medial; the pronotum is dark with the lateral margins pale, a longitudinal stripe pale and a pair of the transversal stripes pale on anterior and posterior portion respectively.

References. Kirkaldy 1909; Brailovsky & Barrera 1989.