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Description . Length: 6.0-8.2 mm; Width: 3.1-4.4 mm. 



Body elongate, widest at basal third of elytra; dull, 

 microreticulate; yellow to orange with black color pattern 

 (Fig. 34) . 



Head solid black or with varying amounts of orange on 

 the epistome and vertex. Pronotum with 2 anterior spots and 

 2 basal spots connected to margin; 2 free spots set so 

 distance between centers is less than head width including 

 eyes; all pronotal spots together form longitudinally 

 elongate circle; base with thin black margin on central 

 half. Scutellum black. Each elytron with orange epipleural 

 fold, rarely dark and appearing black; subhumeral spot 

 connected to large scutellar spot, rarely free; scutellar 

 spot broadly connected to base and suture; suture black; 

 central spot roughly triangular, broadly connected to suture 

 from elytral half nearly to apex, anteriorly widened, 

 posteriorly blunt, rarely swollen apically, with 2 

 indentations on anterior and posterior edges giving the spot 

 the appearance of being formed from the fusion of 3 spots. 

 Venter black with orange lateral margins of sclerites. 

 Appendages black; palpi and tarsi brown. 



Head dorsal distance between eyes = 2 x eye width; 

 ocular striae reaching 0.5 distance to anterior angle of 

 eye, continued forward as row of punctures; vertex puncture 

 size = 1 x facet, separated by 1 to 3 diameters; epistome 

 puncture size = 0.75 x facet, separated by 1 diameter. 

 Antenna reaching basal 0.25 of pronotum; antennomere III as 



