Description
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Body length 1.94–2.16 mm, width 1.18–1.29 mm. Color chestnut brown with appendages lighter (Fig. 47). Head surface shiny with few small punctures (Fig. 48), supraorbital pore much larger than a few small punctures on vertex. Supracallinal sulcus clearly separates antennal calli and vertex medially. Frontal ridge wide, longer than antennal calli. Anterofrontal ridge making long denticle about as long as half clypeus length. Pronotum and elytron with fine punctures. Interspaces of elytron flat. Proportions of tarsomeres of male as follows: protarsomeres 7:4:4:9; mesotarsomeres 7:4:4:9; metatarsomeres 10:4:4:9. Median lobe of aedeagus more or less parallel sided in ventral, median lobe view, with ridge in middle being wider at base, narrowing towards middle and widening and disappearing towards apex. In lateral, median lobe view slightly curved with bump on ventral side beyond middle (Fig. 50).
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- A. S. Konstantinov, A. A. Konstantinova
- bibliographic citation
- Konstantinov A, Konstantinova A (2011) New genus and species of flea beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini) from Puerto Rico, with comments on flea beetle diversity in the West Indies and a key to the West Indian Monoplatini genera ZooKeys 155: 61–87
- author
- A. S. Konstantinov
- author
- A. A. Konstantinova