Gonophora haemorrhoidalis

Gonophora haemorrhoidalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Genus:	Gonophora
Species:	G. haemorrhoidalis
Binomial name
Gonophora haemorrhoidalis (Weber, 1801)
Synonyms
Hispa haemorrhoidalisWeber, 1801 Gonophora harmorrhoidalis atripennisWeise, 1924 Gonophora harmorrhoidalis niasensisGestro, 1897 Gonophora harmorrhoidalis undulataWeise, 1905

Gonophora haemorrhoidalis is a species of beetle of the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sumatra) and Malaysia.

Description

Adults are broadly elongate, slightly wider behind and shining testaceous. The elytra (their extreme apex excepted) and antennae are black. The head is smooth and the basal joint of the antennae and eyes are rufo-piceous. The thorax is broader at the base than long, its apex narrowly strangulated, the sides margined, straight and indistinctly sinuate behind, narrowed and deeply sinuate in front. The margin is produced and angled near the middle, its outer border finely serrate. The disc is convex, thickened and rugose-punctate, longitudinally grooved down the middle, the hinder portion deeply impressed with a transverse excavation, which extends on either side obliquely upwards nearly to the anterior angles, the extreme base transversely grooved. The scutellum is smooth, its apex blackish-piceous. The elytra are broader than the thorax, slightly increasing in width to the posterior angles, the apex obtusely rounded, posterior angles distinct and obtuse, the sides nearly parallel, their entire margin distinctly serrate, above subdepressed along the back. Each elytron has three elevated costae, the upper margins of which are deeply undulate, the edge itself being coarsely serrate, the intermediate costa is nearly obsolete in the middle, the interspaces impressed with three or more rows of deep punctures, their interstices transversely costulate, black. There is a transverse apical spot, and, more rarely, a patch at the extreme base, testaceous. ^[1]

Life history

The recorded host plants for this species are Amomum species. ^[2]

References

1. Catalogue of Hispidae in the collection of the British Museum This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
2. Staines, C.L. (2012). "Hispines of the World: Tribe Gonophorini" (PDF). USDA/APHIS/PPQ Science and Technology and National Natural History Museum. Retrieved September 26, 2025.