Javeta pallida

Javeta pallida
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Genus:	Javeta
Species:	J. pallida
Binomial name
Javeta pallida Baly, 1858 [1]
Synonyms
Distolaca flavidaGestro, 1911

Javeta pallida is a species of beetle of the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in India (Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal).

Description

Adults are elongate, convex and pale shining fulvous. The antennae are equal in length to the head and thorax and robust. The thorax is rather longer than broad, the sides subparallel, sinuate behind, slightly narrowed in front, with the posterior angle acute and the anterior margin straight. The surface is transversely depressed behind, deeply and irregularly excavated on the sides and front, the excavated portions are coarsely punctured. The disc is irregularly shining, deeply pitted in the middle. The scutellum is smooth and shining. The elytra are broader than the thorax, the sides parallel, narrowly margined and the apex rounded, above convex, deeply and regularly punctate-striate, with the alternate interstices indistinctly costate. ^[2]

Biology

The food plant is unknown. ^[3]

References

1. Integrated Taxonomic Information System
2. Catalogue of Hispidae in the collection of the British Museum This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
3. Staines, C. L. (2015). "Tribe Coelaenomenoderini" (PDF). Catalog of the Hispines of the World (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Retrieved 19 September 2025.