Chelymorpha alternans Boheman, 1854
Chelymorpha
alternans Boheman,
1854: 33
(LT! in NRS!), 1856: 76, 1862: 200; Gemminger
and Harold, 1876: 3638; Champion, 1893: 151; Spaeth,
1914 g: 57; Blackwelder,
1946: 744; Wilcox,
1975: 152; Vasconcellos-Neto,
1988: 217-232
(as ab. of cribraria); Windsor
et al., 1992: 389; Rodriguez, 1994: 198 (spermatheca), 1995:
327-331
(behaviour); Borowiec, 1999 d: 98 (as syn. of cribraria);
Rodriguez et al., 2004: 739-748 (morphology); Borowiec
and Skuza, 2004: 450 (spermatheca); Cuignet,
2008: 364, 366
(parasitoids); Morrison and Windsor, 2018: 31-41 (biology, incl. colour photos).
Host plant:
Convolvulaceae: Convolvulus arvensis, Ipomoea batatas, Ipomoea hederifolia, Ipomoea lindenii, Ipomoea nil, Ipomoea phillomega, Ipomoea squamosa, Ipomoea tiliacea, Ipomoea tricolor, Ipomoea trifida and Merremia umbellata (Morrison & Windsor, 2018).
Distr.: Columbia. Colombia: Amazonica; Panama; Surinam: Nickeri; Venezuela: Anzoategui, Aragua, Distr. Federal, Falcon, Miranda, Portugesa, Yaracuy, Zulia.
figure: habitus in colour