(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae)
Lipromima Heikertinger
Lipromima minuta |
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Lipromima minuta |
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Distribution: Southern Japan, China.
Statistics: 2 species worldwide.
Host Plants: Rhus javanica
(Takizawa 1994).
Diagnosis: Body small to
medium sized, oval, more or less convex from lateral view.
Color yellow to dark brown or black, sometimes with dark
spots on elytron. Body covered with long semierect hairs.
Head pro-hypognathous, ovoid, convex from lateral
view. Facial part long. Frontal ridge narrow between antennal
calli, Y-shaped, broadened apically, not forming elevated ridge
with anterior margin of head capsule. Antennal calli small,
raised, subquadrate, broadly connected, delineated from vertex by
deep transverse punctures. Vertex short. Interantennal space
narrower than diameter of antennal socket. Clypeus long, with
several long setae on basal margin. Eye large. Antenna
11-segmented, filiform.
Pronotum trapezoidal, much narrower basally than
elytra, with broad antebasal transverse impression. Procoxal
cavity closed behind, procoxa almost circular. Intercoxal
prosternal process wide, canaliculate.
Elytra oval, with well developed humeral callus.
Elytral punctures arranged in striae, interspaces very narrow and
convex. Epipleuron wide, almost reaching elytral apex.
Metatibia narrow, cylindrical, expanded apically;
apex flat. First metatarsal segment inserted apically, almost as
long as following three segments combined. Apical spine long,
inserted medially.
