Callispa sebakue

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Callispa sebakue
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Callispa
Species:
C. sebakue
Binomial name
Callispa sebakue
Péringuey, 1908
Synonyms
  • Callispa sebakuensisSpaeth, 1935

Callispa sebakue is a species of beetle of the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. [1]

Description

Adults reach a length of about 6 mm. They are red, with a black head and cerulean elytra. The head is punctate on both sides and reddish at the apex. The prothorax is rounded at the apex, not at all attenuated, then sub-obliquely enlarged towards the base, at this point wider at the apex by about a third, scarcely more convex, with no discoidal depressions, above the scutellum impressed in the middle of the base, densely covered with almost sub-foveolate dots, the middle part of the disc narrowly punctured. The scutellum is sub-rufescens, impressed posteriorly. The elytra run almost parallel to the prothorax, longer by a quarter, deeply punctate-striate. The body moderately punctate beneath. [2]

References

  1. Staines, C.L. (2012). "Hispines of the World". USDA/APHIS/PPQ Science and Technology and National Natural History Museum. Retrieved August 26, 2025.
  2. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum p. 335