Allocolaspis grandicollis ( Blake, 1976a )

Gómez-Zurita, Jesús & Maes, Jean-Michel, 2022, New Genera and Species Records of Nicaraguan Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Including a New Species in a New Generic Record for Central America, Neotropical Entomology 51 (5), pp. 705-721 : 709-710

Allocolaspis grandicollis ( Blake, 1976a)

( Figs. 3h , 4a )

New species record: JGZC: (1) male ( JGZC-1236 ), Rivas, Cárdenas , Finca Sierra Serena , 11.234449 -85.5539179, 66 m, 14 July 2010, J.-M. Maes leg., Allocolaspis grandicollis (Blake) J. Gómez-Zurita det. 2022. MEL: (1) 1 ex., # 232 , Región Autónoma de la Costa Caribe Norte, Reserva Biosfera BOSAWAS , Cerro Saslaya , 13.75054 -84.97857, 250–300 m, 6–10 May 2011, B. Hernández leg.; (2) 2 exx., # 152 , Región Autónoma de la Costa Caribe Norte, 8 km E Bonanza , Centro de Información y Comunicación Regional para el Trópico Húmedo (CICABO) , 14.013335 -84.525334, 21 August 2000, sobre cacao, Y. Dixon leg., Allocolaspis sp. W. Flowers det. 2020; (3) 1 ex., # 270 , idem, 8 September 2000, J. Flores leg.; (4) 1 ex., idem, 12 December 2000, sobre aguacate, Y. Dixon leg.; (5) 1 ex., Río San Juan , Los Guatuzos, Río Papaturro , 11.032255 -85.053492, 40 m, 17–24 March 2000, J.-M. Maes, J. Sunyer & B. Hernández leg.; (6) 1 ex., Rivas, Mata de Caña , 11.554471 -85.968130, 110 m, 31 July–1 August 2002, en bosque ripario, B. Hernández leg.

Allocolaspis Bechyné 1950a , as currently defined, is a genus with species distributed in northern South America, Central America south from Guatemala, and the Antilles ( Bechyné 1953; Flowers 1996). Fourteen species were reported from the region of interest, with one of them endemic from Nicaragua, A. belti (Jacoby 1881) , and the only record of the genus in the country. The current species, originally described from Panama, and confirmed studying the penis ( Fig. 3h ) of the only specimen collected in Nicaragua ( Fig. 4a ), would be the second registered species of Allocolaspis in this country.

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Fig. 3 Lateral and dorsal apical views of the penis of Colaspis jalapae (Bechyné) (a), Chrysodinopsis cupriceps (Lefèvre) (b), Antitypona submetallica (Jacoby) (c), Rhabdopterus uncotibialis (Blake) (d), Spintherophyta minuta (Jacoby) (e), Talurus tortonesei Bechyné (f), Typophorus subbrunneus Jacoby (g), Allocolaspis grandicollis (Blake) (h), Nodocolaspis femoralis (Lefèvre) (i), Brachypnoea modesta animatoria (Bechyné) (j), and Caryonoda funebris n. sp. (k). Scale bar=0.2 mm

Fig. 4 Dorsal views of some of the new records of Nicara- guan Eumolpinae in the tribes Eumolpini and Megascelini, including Allocolaspis gran- dicollis (Blake) (a), Nodoco- laspis femoralis (Lefèvre) (b), Colaspis jalapae (Bechyné) (c), Rhabdopterus uncotibialis (Blake) (d), Talurus tortonesei Bechyné (e), and Megascelis spinipes Jacoby (f). Scale bar=1.0 mm