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Adetus subellipticus
Classification
Diagnostic Features of Larvae
- Larva. Form cylindrical, slender; sparsely clothed with fine yellowish-white hairs. Head similar to that of Ataxia, but protuberances on hypostoma not so sharply conical. Prothorax cylindrical; pronotum rectangular, entirely smooth, shining, somewhat chitinized or posteriorly indistinctly striate; alar area a chitinous plate; sternum trapezoidal, widest in front, laterally bearing an oval chitinous spot; eusternum elliptical; sternellum well defined; mesonotum bearing x-shaped suture, with the lateral elliptical areas well defined; metanotum bearing two regular rows of large tubercles; mesosternum not tuberculate, metasternum bearing a few large irregular ones. Abdomen cylindrical, segments short; seven ampullae bearing large regular tubercles, the first three of two rows, the remainder of one, posterior row of about five or six tubercles, ventral similar; epipleurum protuberant on all segments, tubercles large, elongate oval, chitinous pits not distinct; ninth segment swollen, densely ciliate, tergum produced into an inflexed conical, chitinous tipped process. Adapted from Craighead (1923).
Biology and Economic Importance
- Members of this tribe are known from various host plant families. Species of this tribe are potentially invasive outside their native range.
Selected References to Larvae Specimens
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