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Issue: Vol. 1637 No. 1: 14 Nov. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-11-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1637.1.2
Page range: 21–36
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 6

Description of immatures and the bionomy of the Oriental leaf beetle Chaeridiona thailandica Kimoto, 1998 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Oncocephalini), a leaf-mining hispine beetle

Zoological Institute, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 63/77, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland
Entomologie I, Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany
Coleoptera morphology larva pupa plastron spiracular gill Chrysomelidae Cassidinae Chaeridiona thailandica Zingiberaceae Thailand Oriental Region

Abstract

Larva and pupa of the Oriental Chaeridiona thailandica Kimoto are described, figured in detail and compared with the recently described immatures of Ch. picea Baly. Ch. thailandica larvae mine in leaves of gingers belonging to Zingiber and Boesenbergia and pupate in the mid-ribs of leaves. The larvae and pupae possess plastron-bearing spiracular gills allowing respiration in water when temporarily submerged after heavy rain.

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