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Genus: Neodillonia
Diagnostic Features
- Description: Elongate-ovate, robust, small to moderate-sized, ranging from about 10–18 mm in length. Integument generally dark brown or black with whitish, brown, and ochraceous pubescence. Head with frons elongate, about as wide as width of 2 1/2 lower eye lobes. Eyes with lower lobes ovate-oblong. Genae elongate, about as tall as lower eye lobes. Antennal tubercles prominent, narrowly separated, contiguous at base; tubercles armed at apex with a small projection, or with a short, blunt horn; antennae about as long as overall body length, or as much as twice as long; scape gradually expanded to apex, longer than antennomere IV; antennomere III nearly straight, about as long as scape and longer than antennomere IV. Pronotum transverse, roughly conical, wider at base, with lateral tubercles. Elytra with sides attenuate; elytral apices individually rounded; elytra generally uniform in coloration or speckled; base of elytra with two prominent tubercles at humeri. Basal 1/3 of elytra with dense punctation, surface granulate-punctate. Procoxae without projection (females) or with small acute projection (males). Mesosternal process with apex deeply emarginate. Metafemora moderate in length, about 1/3 as long as elytra.
- The combination of the following characters will help to distinguish this genus: narrowly separated antennal tubercles, contiguous at base; scape gradually expanded to apex; roughly conical pronotum, with distinct lateral tubercles; and base of elytra with two prominent tubercles at humeri.
- Similar genus/genera: superficially resembles Euthima, Hypsioma, and Jamesia.
Geographic Distribution
- South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay)
Host Plants/Trees
- Asteraceae (Baccharis dracunculifolia, B. tandilensis, Grindelia buphthalmoides, Tessaria absinthioides); Malvaceae (Abutilon pauciflorum, Sphaeralcea bonariensis); Mimosaceae (Acacia caven); Solanaceae (Cestrum parqui)
Girdling Behavior
Notes
Generic Synonymies
- The type species of this genus was originally described in the genus Trachysomus; the genus Dillonia was renamed Neodillonia; the genus Clytemnestra was synonymized with Neodillonia.
Selected References
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Neodillonia albisparsa
♀ specimen
© E.H. Nearns
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© 2011-2015 Nearns, E.H., Lord, N.P., and K.B. Miller
The University of New Mexico and Center for Plant Health Science and Technology, USDA, APHIS, PPQ.
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