Guide to Palearctic Flea Beetle Genera
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae)

Arrhenocoela Foudras

Arrhenocoela lineata Click here to see a larger image

Arrhenocoela Foudras, 1859 (1860):147 (type species Chrysomela lineata Rossi, 1790, Europe, by monotypy). - Heikertinger, 1924a:40. - Heikertinger & Csiki in Junk, 1939:275. - Mohr, 1966:238. - Konstantinov & Vandenberg, 1996:300.

Distribution: Southwestern Europe, North Africa.

Statistics: Single species.

Host Plants: Erica scoparia (Weise, 1882-93), Calluna (Doguet, 1994).

Diagnosis: Body medium sized, elliptical, convex from lateral view. Color yellow with dark brown stripes on elytron.
Head hypo-prognathous, short, oval, more or less flat from lateral view. Frontal ridge wide and short, forming low T-shaped ridge with anterior margin of head capsule. Antennal calli raised, narrowly connected, delineated from frontal ridge and vertex by fine furrows. Orbital line present. Interantennal space wider than diameter of antennal socket and narrower than transverse diameter of eye. Eye small. Clypeus long. Antenna 11-segmented, filiform.
Pronotum more or less wide, narrowly explanate laterally, with transverse impression basally. Procoxal cavity closed behind. Intercoxal prosternal process more or less narrow, widely explanate posteriorly.
Elytra elongated, convex, with well developed humeral calli. Elytral punctures arranged in striae. Interspaces more or less wide, convex, covered with sparse, fine punctures. Epipleuron subvertical, not reaching elytral apex.
Metatibia long, slightly curved, dorsally flat at apical 1/3. Metatarsus inserted apically. First metatarsal segment shorter than following three segments combined. First tarsal segments of male notably enlarged.

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