Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 92. (Budapest 2000)

Medvedev, L. N.: Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of Laos from the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum

Cneorella flavipes sp. n. (Galerucinae) (Fig. 7) Description. Metallic dark green, antennae fuscous with fulvous basal segments, apices of femora, tibiae, tarsi and abdomen fulvous. Body elongate ovate. Head with sharply delimited and convex frontal tubercles, vertex sparsely punctate. Antennae reach apical slope of elytra, proportions of segments are as 15-6-10-14-15-15-15-17-15-15-16. Prothorax 1.65 times as wide as long, shining, finely and not densely punctate. Elytra 1.3 times as long as wide, shining, strongly punctate, with feeble postbasal impression. Tarsal segments of male not enlarged. Aedeagus with simple triangular apex (Fig. 7). Length of male 4.1 mm, of female 4.4-4.6 mm. Type material - Holotype (male): Laos, Champassak prov., Dong Hua Xao NBCA, 2 km S of Nong Luang village, the bank of Touay-Guai stream, 15°4'n, 106°13'e, 800 m, 1-5 April 1998. (HNHM). Paratypes: same locality, 2 females (HNHM, LM). Remarks - Near C. cyanea MEDVEDEV et DANG DAP, 1981, differs with legs largely fulvous and aedeagus with simple apex (in all typical species of Cneorella aedeagus is bifurcate). This species is also very similar to the species of Calomicrus STEPHENS, 1834, but has a distinct spur on mid and hind tibiae. Martinella gen. n. (Galerucinae) In 1892 Dr. MARTIN JACOBY described a new species from Burma, which he placed doubtfully in the genus Agelastica Chevrolat, 1837 (he had only a single female). One hundred years later KlMOTO (1989) placed this species {Agelastica fulva JACOBY, 1892) in the genus Calomicrus STEPHENS, 1834 and described C. persimilis KlMOTO, 1989, nearest to JACOBY'

s species. Now I have at my disposal two more species of this group, represented with good series from Laos and Vietnam, as well as a type of Agelastica fulva JACOBY. They cannot be placed either in Agelastica or in Calomicrus, and I propose a new genus for them. Theoretically Agelastica fulva JACOBY might be a type species of the genus, but because only one female is known I prefer to propose for type species a new species from Laos. Description - Body oblong ovate, rather large, resembles Agelastica. Frontal tubercles triangular, with anterior angles produced to interantennal space, clypeus with longitudinal ridge. Maxillar palpi not thickened, with last segment not shorter than segment 3. Antennae thin and long, segment 3 about 1.5 times as long as 2, segment 4 much longer than 3. Prothorax transverse with margined posterior and unmargined anterior border, convex except short transverse impression on each side behind anterior angles. Elytra irregularly punctate, without postbasal impression, with short and very sparse erect hairs, more distinct on margins. Epipleurae broad at base, gradually narrowed behind anterior third and disappear before apex. Anterior coxal cavities open, prosternum between