Sumitrosis diversipes

Sumitrosis diversipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Sumitrosis
Species:
S. diversipes
Binomial name
Sumitrosis diversipes
(Baly, 1885)[1]
Synonyms
  • Chalepus diversipes Baly, 1885
  • Anoplitis diversipes

Sumitrosis diversipes is a species of beetle of the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Mexico (Oaxaca).[2]

Description

The head is moderately produced between the eyes and minutely granulose. The front impressed with a longitudinal groove. The antennae are slender and filiform. The thorax is transverse, the sides converging from base to apex, distinctly angulate, slightly bisinuate. The upper surface is subcylindrical, transversely depressed on the hinder disc, closely covered with large coarse punctures. The elytra are narrowly oblong, slightly dilated apical margin conjointly obtuse, broadly sinuate on either side. The outer margin (the sinuate apices excepted) is serrulate and the upper surface is granulose. Each elytron (at the base and on the medial disc) has eight, at the apex with nine, rows of fine, but distinctly impressed punctures, the second interspace, together with the suture at its apex, strongly costate. The sixth interspace is less strongly elevated.[3]

Biology

The food plant is unknown.[4]

References

  1. ^ Integrated Taxonomic Information System
  2. ^ Mexican leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae, and Chrysomelidae): new records and checklist
  3. ^ Biologia Centrali-Americana: Insecta (Coleoptera) Vol. VI. part 2 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ Staines, C.L. (2012). "Hispines of the World: Tribe Chalepini" (PDF). USDA/APHIS/PPQ Science and Technology and National Natural History Museum. Retrieved August 26, 2025.