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Description . Length: 5.5-6.9 mm: Width: 2.6-3.1 mm. 



Body elongate, widest at basal third of elytra; 

 microreticulate; orange with black pattern (Fig. 36). 



Head orange or black (see Variation) . Pronotum with 2 

 free pronotal spots; medial half of base margined in black, 

 occasionally with a black spot at ends of black margin. 

 Scutellum black. Each elytron with orange epipleural fold; 

 subhumeral spot free or touching base (see Variation) ; large 

 scutellar spot, broadly connected to base and suture; suture 

 margin black; free central spot, rarely touching black 

 sutural edge; apical spot free. Venter black with orange 

 lateral abdominal sternites and lateral prothorax. Legs 

 black; tarsi and palpi brown. 



Head dorsal distance between eyes = 2.5 x eye width; 

 ocular striae reaching 0.7 to 0.8 distance to anterior angle 

 of eye; vertex puncture size = 1 x facet, separated 1 to 3 

 diameters; epistome puncture size = 0.5 x facet, separated 

 by 1 diameter. Antenna reaching basal 0.25 of pronotum; 

 antennomere III as long as next 3 antennomere combined; 

 antennomeres X to XI asymmetrical; antennomere XI transverse 

 (similar to Fig. 6e) . 



Maxillary palp terminal segment triangular, securiform, 

 basally rounded, apical angles 90° or more, length = 0.66 x 

 width. Labial palp terminal segment triangular, extended on 

 medial side, length = 0.66 x width. Labial palp width = 0.8 

 x maxillary palp width (Fig. 7e) . Mentum with plate broadly 



