(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae)
Anthobiodes Weise
Anthobiodes angusta |
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Anthobiodes angusta |
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Distribution: Spain, Syria, Turkey.
Statistics: 3 species.
Host Plants: Unknown.
Comments: This genus contains a highly unusual
combination of characters which occur rarely among Palearctic
flea beetles. All of these characters are also present in
Wittmeriana, therefore the latter is placed as a
junior synonym of Anthobiodes.
Diagnosis: Body very small, elongate, more or less
flat. Color yellow; meso- and metasternum, abdomen and 7
apical antennal segments dark brown; metafemoral apices dark.
Head hypo-prognathous, small, oval, convex from
lateral view. Facial part of head much shorter than region above
antennal calli. Frontal ridge very short and wide, not forming
T-shaped ridge with anterior margin of head capsule.
Interantennal space wider than diameter of antennal socket.
Antennal calli not raised and not delimited from vertex by
furrows. Clypeus and labrum short. Antenna 11-segmented,
filiform.
Pronotum. Lateral and basal margins covered with thin
short setae. Procoxal cavity open behind. Intercoxal prosternal
process and mesosternum very narrow.
Elytra almost parallel-sided, flat from lateral view.
Humeral callus raised. Lateral side with very thin and short
setae. Elytral punctures arranged in striae; interspaces almost
flat. Epipleuron comparatively wide, not reaching posterolateral
margin of elytron.
Metafemur large. Metatibia with flat apical 1/3.
Metatibial apex slightly thickened, spine inserted at middle.
First metatarsal segment as long as following three segments
combined.
