Platybrotica misionensis a New Genus and Species of Luperini (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) from Argentina

Nora Cabrera; Guillermo Cabrera Walsh

doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2004)097[0006:PMANGA]2.0.CO;2

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Nora Cabrera,¹ Guillermo Cabrera Walsh²

¹Departamento Científico de Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Argentina ( ) ncabrera@museo.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar
²South American Biocontrol Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service/United States Department of Agriculture, 3130 Buenos Aires PL, Washington, DC 20521–3130 ( ) gcabrera@mail.retina.ar

Abstract

A new genus and species of Galerucinae, Platybrotica misionensis, is described from northeast Argentina (Misiones Province). This monotypic genus is characterized by the antennomeres 6–10 ventrally excavated, genal space equal to one-fourth to less than one-half of maximum ocular diameter, elytra with 2 posthumeral costae, and internal sac of aedeagus with 5 sclerites, and is assigned to the Diabroticites, a section of the subtribe Diabroticina, tribe Luperini. Adults have been found associated with wild and cultivated Cucurbitaceae.

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Nora Cabrera and Guillermo Cabrera Walsh "Platybrotica misionensis a New Genus and Species of Luperini (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) from Argentina," Annals of the Entomological Society of America 97(1), 6-14, (1 January 2004). https://doi.org/10.1603/0013-8746(2004)097[0006:PMANGA]2.0.CO;2

Received: 8 January 2003; Accepted: 1 July 2003; Published: 1 January 2004