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Issue: Vol. 1615 No. 1: 15 Oct. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-10-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1615.1.6
Page range: 55–68
Abstract views: 38
PDF downloaded: 3

First descriptions of immatures for Megistops (Boheman) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae) in a new host-plant family, with notes on life history and redescription of M. vandepolli Duvivier

Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná. Caixa Postal 19020, 81531-990 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná. Caixa Postal 19020, 81531-990 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Museu de Ciências Naturais, Fundção Zoobotãnica do Rio Grande do Sul. Rua Dr. Salvador França, 1427, Jardim Botãnico, 90690-000 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Coleoptera Alticini Buddleja leaf-miner morphology pupa

Abstract

The adult of Megistops vandepolli Duvivier is redescribed and previously undescribed features such as mouth parts, wing venation and genitalia are included. Egg, mature larva and pupa are described and illustrated for the first time providing data for future phylogenetic studies in Galerucinae. Megistops vandepolli is found in Buddleja stachyoides Cham. & Schltdl (Buddlejaceae); their larvae are leaf-miners and the pupation occurs in soil. Additional comments on its life history are also presented and discussed. The genus Megistops (Boheman) is added to this list of Alticini leaf-miners and a new family of host-plant is recorded for it.

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