Theone species

Ahmed, Zubair & Lalika, Haseeb Ahmed, 2024, Some interesting and new records of leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Pakistan, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 24 (2), pp. 245-249 : 247

Theone species (female):

Measurement: 10 mm; head, antennae, legs, scutellum black, pronotum, elytra dark brown; head rounded, vertex raised with rounded shiny median part, coarse punctures, a median line depressed, lateral margin of vertex not shiny, black, smooth; antennal tubercles raised, antennal length ahead of elytral shoulders, scape long, slender, 2 nd segment small, slender, 3 rd segment long but shorter than 4 th segment, rest of segment slender; pronotum transverse, broader than long, narrow at middle, disc depressed with coarse, dense punctures, anterior margin scarcely depressed just behind of that, lateral margin irregular rounded; scutellum depressed, broad, lobate shiny, black; elytra connate, without distinct humeral shoulders, lateral margin more emerginate, expanded posteriorly, elytral strial margin distinct, three more strial margin raised with distinct gap, explanate margin broad, intervals with deep, coarse punctures; pygidium transverse, narrow with straight apex.

247 Female genitalia: Spermatheca with proximal lobe swollen scarce, narrow in the middle then cylindrical distally.