Conicobruchus strangulatus
- Dataset
- Taxonomy, host-plant associations and phylogeny of African Crotalaria - feeding seed beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Bruchinae): the Conicobruchus strangulatus (Fåhraeus) species group
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Chrysomelidae
- genus
- Conicobruchus
- species
- Conicobruchus strangulatus
Conicobruchus strangulatus
Key to the Conicobruchus strangulatus species group based on external morphology of the adults
(see Fig. 1)
1. Pronotum short, its sides not concave, not compressed anteriorly into a neck. Mostly red, with dark markings on elytra................................................................................................ C. decoratus
- Pronotum long with sides concave, produced anteriorly into a neck.............................................. 2
2(1). Elytra with bare spots alternating with densely setose patches........................................ C. cicatricosus
- Elytra uniformly covered with setae....................................................................... 3
3(2). Pronotum bearing brushes and spots of dense white setae, quite noticeable on black background........... C. flabellicornis
- Lack of white setae spots on pronotum.................................................................... 4
4(3). Last visible tergite and elytra black or dark reddish-brown......................................... C. strangulatus
- Last visible tergite red.................................................................................. 5
5(4). Body mostly deep reddish brown, elytra mainly black, pronotum with a longitudinal line of whitish setae..... C. rubricollis
- Body black, elytra bright orange with suture black............................................... C. atrosuturalis