Callispa sebakue
Species of beetle
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Callispa sebakue is a species of beetle of the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Mozambique and Zimbabwe.[1]
| Callispa sebakue | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Callispa |
| Species: | C. sebakue |
| Binomial name | |
| Callispa sebakue Péringuey, 1908 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Description
Adults reach a length of about 6 mm. They are red, with a black head and cerulean elytra. The head is punctate on both sides and reddish at the apex. The prothorax is rounded at the apex, not at all attenuated, then sub-obliquely enlarged towards the base, at this point wider at the apex by about a third, scarcely more convex, with no discoidal depressions, above the scutellum impressed in the middle of the base, densely covered with almost sub-foveolate dots, the middle part of the disc narrowly punctured. The scutellum is sub-rufescens, impressed posteriorly. The elytra run almost parallel to the prothorax, longer by a quarter, deeply punctate-striate. The body moderately punctate beneath.[2]