Cryptocephalus chloroticus Olivier,1808
This is a nice yellowish-brown species found on plant shoots in the spring.
This is a nice yellowish-brown species found on plant shoots in the spring.
D'un jaune testace; elytres avec des points en stries. C. pallide testaceus, elytris punctatus-striatis. Similis C. Pini. Corpus totum pallidi rufum. Thorax levis nitidus. Elytra punctato-striata striis obscurioribus, foveola valde impressa ad apicem abdominis. A Saint-Domingue. (Olivier, 1808: 787)
"Large, straw-yellow, legs and antennae reddish-brown, distally darker. Head small, hidden, brown, with yellow labrum, frons flat, without depression between eyes. Pronotum wide, produced, with two brown deltoid markings on disc reaching margin, basal margin black. Scutellum short, flat, truncate and elevated distally, brown border. Elytra short, flat, lateral margins with epipleura anteriorly expanded narrowing posterad. Surface smooth, punctures irregular, with weak depressions each with weak brown margin. Interstices flat and humeral tubercles slightly elevated, brown. Ventrally yellowish-white and sternites with brown border, prosternum gradually and broadly produced anterad, deeple incised and margined posterad, posterior lobes divided in two; one directed posterad and other laterad. Fossa wide, open posterad. (Translated from Zayas, 1960: 145)
Smoothly curved, pale yellow body; head and middle of the glossy, finely and dispersedly punctured pronotum, darker; the elytra spaciously puncture-striped with scarred interspaces. [Translated from the original German in Suffrian, 1858: 247].
Cuba, Hispaniola.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (Museum Chevrolat). [Translated from Suffrian, 1858].