(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae)
Philopona Weise
Philopona vibex |
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Philopona vibex |
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Distribution: Southeastern part of Palearctic, Oriental
region, Australia, Africa, Madagascar.
Statistics: 1 species in Palearctic, more than 40
species worldwide.
Host Plants: Plantago
sp.(Medvedev & Roginskaya 1988).
Diagnosis:
Body usually medium sized, oval or oblong-ovate, more or less
convex from lateral view. Color yellow, brown or black,
sometimes metallic blue; elytron sometimes metallic blue with
spots or stripes.
Head pro-hypognathous, short, convex from lateral
view. Frontal ridge wide, flat and short, forming elevated,
angular T-shaped ridge with anterior margin of head capsule.
Antennal calli raised, oval, widely connected, well delineated
from vertex by furrows, weakly delineated laterally.
Interantennal space wider than diameter of antennal socket.
Orbital line present above antennal calli. Eye small. Clypeus and
labrum wide. Antenna 11-segmented, filiform, few apical segments
moniliform.
Pronotum wide, slightly emarginate anteriorly,
broadly explanate laterally, with distinct antebasal transverse
impression. Posterolateral angle acute. Procoxal cavity open
behind. Intercoxal prosternal process long, carinate.
Elytra wide, oval, broadly explanate laterally, with
well developed humeral calli and shallow transverse impression
behind antennal calli sometimes covered with large deep
punctures. Elytral punctures irregularly placed. Epipleuron wide,
subhorizontal.
Hind femur greatly swollen. Metatibia short, straight
and canaliculate, with obtuse tooth behind middle, followed by
shallow impression. Metatarsus inserted subapically. First
metatarsal segment as short as second one. Last metatarsal
segment greatly swollen.
