(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae)
Clitea Baly
Clitea picta |
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Clitea picta |
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Distribution: Northern China, India.
Statistics: 1 species in Palearctic, about 10 species
worldwide.
Host Plants: Citrus spp.,
Zanthoxylum spp. (Gressitt & Kimoto 1963).
Diagnosis: Body convex, robust, cylindrical.
Color dark brown or black with or without metallic lustre;
sometimes elytra reddish with dark spots.
Head hypognathous, broadly oval, flat from lateral
view. Frontal ridge very broad, flat and not raised. Antennal
calli absent. Frontal furrow sometimes absent. Orbital line
narrow and shallow, situated very close to eye. Eye large.
Interantennal space wider than transverse diameter of eye.
Clypeus very short. Antenna 11-segmented, filiform.
Pronotum broad, basal margin sinuate, without any
impressions. Procoxal cavity closed behind. Intercoxal prosternal
process narrow, not parallel-sided, broadly explanate laterally.
Mesosternum wide and very short.
Elytra broadly oval, with humeral calli. Punctures
arranged in striae; interspaces wide, flat, covered with numerous
small punctures. Epipleuron narrow, oblique basally and
horizontal apically, reaching posterolateral elytral margin.
Metafemur greatly swollen. Metatibia short, flat
dorsally, with two small longitudinal ridges on dorsal side.
Ridge without setiferous denticles. Metatarsus inserted apically,
metatibial spine inserted laterally. First metatarsal segment
short, shorter than following two segments combined.
