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Vol. 48 No. 4, 2009
Prionispa houjayi
(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Oncocephalini), a Newly
Recorded Genus and New Species from Taiwan, with a Description of Its
Immature Stages and Notes on Its Bionomy
Chi-Feng
Lee1,*, Jolanta Świętojańska2, and Charles L. Staines3
1Applied
Zoology Division, Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, 189
Chung-Cheng Road, Wufeng, Taichung 413, Taiwan
2Zoological Institute, University of Wrocław,
Przbyszewskiego 63/77, 51-148 Wrocław, Poland.
E-mail:sindiola@biol.uni.wroc.pl
3Department of Entomology, MRC 187, National Museum of
Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, Washington,
DC 20013-7012, USA. E-mail:stainesc@si.edu
Chi-Feng
Lee, Jolanta Świętojańska, and Charles L. Staines (2009) The
larva, pupa, and adult of Prionispa
houjayi sp. nov., a new species in the Oncocephalini are
described and illustrated in detail. Some autapomorphies of the
immature stages of this new species are proposed by comparing it to Chaeridiona picea Baly, C. thailandica Kimoto, and Oncocephala quadrilobata (Guérin),
including the quadrate abdominal apex and prominent labial palpi in the
larva, and the lateral scoli of the pronotum in the pupa. Prionispa houjayi sp. nov. larvae
mine the leaves of Disporum Salisbury
(Liliaceae). This is the first host record of the Liliaceae for
the subfamily Cassidinae.
Key words: Morphology,
Larva, Pupa, Liliaceae, Disporum.
*Correspondence: Tel: 886-4-23302301 ext. 631. Fax:
886-4-23302804. E-mail:cflee@gate.sinica.edu.tw
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