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Sangariola Jacobson

habitus illustration of Sangariola punctatostriata
Sangariola punctatostriata
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  • Charidea Baly, 1888:157, a junior homonym of Charidea Dalman, 1816 (type species Galeruca ? punctatostriata Motschulsky, 1859 (1860), Russian Far East, by monotypy).
  • Allophyla Weise, 1889:624, a junior homonym of Allophyla Loew, 1864 (type species A.aurora Weise, Far East, by monotypy). - Chen, 1936b:647.
  • Sangariola Jacobson, 1922:522 (type species Galeruca ? punctatostriata Motschulsky, 1860, Far East, by original designation). - Heikertinger, 1924a:49, 52; 1941a:85, 86; 1950:46. - Heikertinger & Csiki in Junk, 1939:267. - Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963:754. - Medvedev, 1992:585. - Konstantinov & Vandenberg, 1996:274.
  • Lophallya Hincks, 1949:616 (nomen novum for Allophyla Weise). - Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963:755 (synonymized).


Distribution: Saghalin, Japan, China, Korea.

Statistics: 1 species in Palearctic, 3 species worldwide.

Host Plants: Lilium cardatum, L. leichtlinii, Erythronium japonicum, Smilax sp. (Gressitt & Kimoto 1963).

Diagnosis: Body large, elongate, more or less flat. Color reddish or dark reddish brown. Ventral side dark brown or black. Legs and antenna dark brown. Pronotum and elytron with short and very sparse hair.
Head oval, more or less convex from lateral view. Frontal ridge replaced by short longitudinal furrow between antennal sockets. Anterior margin of head capsule with deep transverse impression. Antennal calli longitudinal, raised, triangular, broadly connected, their apices situated between antennal sockets. Orbital line deeply impressed. Eye small. Interantennal space much narrower than diameter of antennal socket. Antenna 11-segmented, filiform.
Pronotum more or less narrow, flat, with transverse and longitudinal antebasal impressions and with few more impressions on disk. Procoxal cavity closed behind.
Elytron carinate, with large, deep punctures forming striae. Humeral callus well developed. Epipleuron more or less vertical, almost reaching elytral apex. Apex with acute tooth.
Metafemur slightly swollen. Metatibia cylindrical, slightly expanded distally; apex oblique. Metatarsus inserted apically. First metatarsal segment short, shorter than following two segments combined.

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