New taxa of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from South India

Abstract

One new genus and three new species of Chysomelidae are described from South India. The monotypic genus Mesopana gen. n. (Galerucinae: Alticini) with the type species Mesopana viridis sp. n. is the most similar to Mesopa Jacoby, 1903, from which it distinctly differs by the transverse prothorax, short antennae, absence of basal convexity on elytra and simple mesotibiae. Cryptocephalus burgeri sp. n. (Cryptocephalinae) is similar to C. kandyensis Weise, 1903 from Sri Lanka and differs in the colour of underside, elytral black spots not margined with flavous, the pygidium with one black spot, the elytral punctation distinct at apex, pro- and mesotibiae of male very weakly widened to apex, tarsi not widened. Eurypelta splendida sp. n. (Eumolpinae) differs from E. modesta (Fabricius, 1792) from Bengal in having narrow longitudinal convexities on elytra, other colour and form of aedeagus and spermatheca. New distributional data and colour variations for Lema yerburyi Jacoby, 1908 (Criocerinae) and Aulacophora impressa (Fabricius, 1801) (Galerucinae) are given.

Keywords

• Coleoptera
• Chrysomelidae
• Galerucinae
• Cryptocephalinae
• Eumolpinae
• Alticini
• new genus
• new species
• South India