Cryptocephalus simulans simulans Schaeffer,1906

Diagnostic description: 

Pronotum: Disk usually orange and clouded with brownish or black, varying to black with two oblique elongate light basal spots and with apical and lateral margins broadly creamy yellow to light orange; with a small coarsely punctate dark to black spot on each side. Punctation usually dual, small punctures sparse, larger punctures on disk minute to small, distinctly larger at side. Elytra: Creamy yellow to light orange, each elytron with brown to black, usually distinct markings as follows: on sutural stria; on second interval, complete to broadly interrupted; on base, middle, and apex of fourth stria; on humerus, this joining a more posterior spot on sixth and seventh intervals; on sixth and seventh intervals behind middle; at apex of seventh interval. With eight rows of punctures, fifth sometimes, sixth and seventh always confused, sixth often much reduced; punctures as large, dense as usual, finer at elytral apex; inner and outer rows at apex distinct, usually clearly meeting. Prosternum: Anterior margin in female produced downward into a broad, distinct lobe; male not examined. Length: 5.4 to 6.3 mm” (White, 1968: 85).

Distribution: 

USA: AZ.

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith