(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae)
Podontia Dalman
Podontia affinis |
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Podontia affinis |
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Distribution: Mostly Oriental genus distributed through
China, India, Vietnam, Korea, Malaysia, Australia.
Statistics: 1 species in Palearctic, about 15 species
worldwide.
Host Plants: Toxicodendron,
Canarium (Medvedev & Dan Tkhi Dap 1982).
Diagnosis: Body large or very large,
elongate-oval, convex from lateral view. Color yellow to
light brown, usually with dark spots on elytron .
Head hypo-prognathous, flat from lateral view. Facial
part of head flat and short. Frontal ridge not raised, wide and
flat. Antennal calli absent. Interantennal space wider than
transverse diameter of eye. Orbital line very deep. Anterolateral
angle of head prominently swollen. Antennal furrow present. Eye
prominent and small. Antenna 11-segmented, filiform.
Pronotum wide, deeply emarginate anteriorly, with
several longitudinal basal and apical impressions. Procoxal
cavity closed behind. Intercoxal prosternal process more or less
narrow, triangularly emarginate posteriorly. Anterior part of
prosternal suture deeply concave.
Elytra oval, convex from lateral view with well
developed humeral calli. Elytral punctures arranged in striae;
interspaces wide, slightly convex. Epipleuron subhorizontal, more
or less narrow, notably tapering apically.
Metafemur with obtuse preapical spine. Meso- and
metatibiae canaliculate, with obtuse tooth beyond middle,
followed by excavation having marginal row of stiff bristles.
Third tarsal segments wide. First male tarsal segments wide.
First metatarsal segment short, not longer than following two
segments combined.
