identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
9E1DFE61FFB9166EFF1D70D0FDEB2FAB.text	9E1DFE61FFB9166EFF1D70D0FDEB2FAB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cephaloleia simplex Staines 2008	<div><p>Cephaloleia simplex Staines, new species</p> <p>(Figure 5)</p> <p>Cephaloleia sp. Peck 2006: 195 (faunal list).</p> <p>Holotype: female, Dominica, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-61.335&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=15.351667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -61.335/lat 15.351667)">St. Paul Parish</a>, Mornes Trois Piton Nat’l. Pk., trail to Middleham Falls, 15 o 21’06” N, 61 o 20’06” W, el. 2200 ft., V-20-VI-2-2000 // L. Benavides, E. Chavez, J. Dye &amp; E. Kretsch, Malaise trap, 2000/10// Holotype Cephaloleia simplex Staines 2007 [red label] (TAMU).</p> <p>Description. Yellowish-brown; eyes and antennae (except basal antennomere) nearly black, venter brownish except pro- and mesosterna blackish; base of pronotum much narrower than base of elytra. Head: vertex punctate, alutaceous between punctures; medial sulcus present; front nearly vertical; interantennal carina absent; clypeus small, punctate; maxillary and labial palps yellowish. Antenna: extends beyond humerus; antennomeres cylindrical; I short; II two times length of I; III longer than I and II combined; IV-VI subequal in length; VII-X subequal in length, shorter than preceding; XI two times length of X, bluntly pointed at apex. Pronotum: wider than long; lateral margin straight and slightly divergent for basal 7/8, then rounded and convergent; anterior angle with small tooth; posterior angle acute; convex; central 1/3 sparsely punctate; moderately coarsely punctate at sides; pronotal length 0.9 mm (n=1); pronotal width 1.1 mm. Scutellum: large; pentagonal; alutaceous; acutely pointed at apex. Elytron: lateral and apical margins smooth; exterior apical angle rounded; humerus rounded, impunctate; puncture rows with few punctures; scutellar row reaching basal 1/3; elytral length 2.9 mm; elytral width 1.6 mm. Venter: pro-, meso-, and metasterna smooth medially, punctate laterally; abdominal sternite 1 punctate; sterna 2-5 with white setae. Leg: short, robust; coxa and femur punctate. Total length: 3.0 mm.</p> <p>Etymology. From simplex (Latin= simple) for the unadorned appearance of this species.</p> <p>Comparative notes. Cephaloleia simplex keys to couplet 83 in Staines (1996). It differs from C. distincta Baly by the following combination of characters: antennomere I not compressed at base, elytra not strongly punctate-striate, prosternum punctate at sides, size small (3.0 mm); C. distincta is known from Costa Rica and Panama.</p> <p>Larval host plants. Unknown. The probable host plant of this species is one of the Zingiberales native to Dominica. Hodge (1954) records Heliconia caribaea Lam., H. bihai L. (Heliconiaceae); Canna lambertii Lindl. (Cannaceae); Renealmia racemosa (L.) A. Rich. (Zingiberaceae); Costus cylindricus Jacq. (Costaceae); Calathea lutea (Aubl.) G. F. W. Meyer, C. allouia (Aubl.) Lindl., and Ischnosiphon ariuma (Aubl.) Koern. (Marantaceae) as native to the island. Additionally, Alpinia speciosa (Wendl.) K. Schum., Hedychium</p> <p>coronarium Koenig, Curcuma longa L. (Zingiberaceae), and Maranta arundinacea L. (Marantaceae)</p> <p>have been introduced to Dominica.</p> <p>Immatures. Unknown.</p> <p>Biology. Unknown.</p> <p>Distribution. Dominica.</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9E1DFE61FFB9166EFF1D70D0FDEB2FAB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Staines, C. L.	Staines, C. L. (2008): A new species of Cephaloleia Chevrolat, 1837 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) from Dominica. Insecta Mundi 2008 (30): 1-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4532893
