(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae)
Novofoudrasia Jacobson
Novofoudrasia rufiventris |
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Novofoudrasia rufiventris |
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Distribution: Central Asia.
Statistics: Single species.
Host Plants: Fabaceae (Lopatin,
personal communication). Citation of Equisetum arvense
(Palii & Avanesova, 1975; Medvedev & Roginskaja, 1988) and
Salix spp. (Lopatin & Kulenova, 1986) as host plants
appears to be unreliable.
Diagnosis: Body
medium sized, oval, more or less convex from lateral view.
Pronotum red or reddish brown; elytron dark blue or violet; legs
and antenna dark brown.
Head hypognathous, flat from lateral view.
Anterolateral angles swollen and lateral sides of head almost
parallel to each other. Frontal ridge very narrow and short.
Anterior part of head with deep and narrow transverse impression
before anterior margin. Antennal calli raised, small, contiguous,
well delineated from vertex by deep furrows. Vertex sometimes
with additional deep longitudinal furrow above antennal calli.
Orbital line situated close to eye margin. Interantennal space
wider than diameter of antennal socket, but narrower than
transverse diameter of eye. Eye small. Antenna 11-segmented,
filiform.
Pronotum wide, flat, with transverse and longitudinal
impression basally; lateral side almost vertical anteriorly.
Procoxal cavity closed behind. Prosternum very short. Intercoxal
prosternal process narrow.
Elytra wide, oval, with well developed humeral calli.
Elytral punctures arranged in striae; latter sometimes irregular;
interspaces wide and flat. Epipleuron almost horizontal,
narrow.
Metatibia thin, cylindrical, more or less long,
slightly expanded and flattened apically. Fourth metatarsal
segment long and thin, as long as segments 2 and 3 combined.
First pro- and mesotarsal segments of male greatly enlarged.
