Calligrapha elegantula

Body length given as a single figure (no range). Head, mandibles, disc of labrum, antennae, mouthparts, pronotum, scutellum, elytral markings, epipleura, ventral surfaces and legs black, shiny, with a hint of greenish metallic reflection; margins of labrum, narrow apex of antennal and maxillary segments, apex of mandibles, knees and claws dark rufous. Clypeus finely microreticulate, moderately strongly punctured with fine, long setae curved towards middle. Antennomeres 2–6 elongated, thin, relatively smooth and almost glabrous; antennomeres 7–11 thicker, widening from base to apex, rugose and pubescent, eleventh about as long as first, tapering towards blunt apex and slightly emarginate dorsally. Labrum relatively long, smooth, emarginate anteriorly, with very long fine setae convergent medially. Mandibles large, sturdy, densely punctured except at apical molar area, with very long fine curved setae directed to middle. Pronotum transverse (W/L=1.96), sides straight, narrowly convergent from base, regularly smoothly curved at apical third towards moderately produced anterior angles; anterior angles with long setae strongly bent dorsolaterally backwards, posterior angles with long setae bent laterally forwards. Hypomera shagreened, convex medially, unpunctured, transversally wrinkled basally. Prosternum concave and finely margined apically, microreticulate, punctured near coxae and laterally on process, with long fine setae. Metepisterna with weakly raised margins, densely punctured, almost rugose on shagreened background. Metaventrite leathery at sides, punctured mainly at anterior angles with fine long hairs on punctures, smooth and shiny medially. Scutellum small, lancet-like and relatively elongate (W/L=0.88), very finely microsculptured, unpunctured. Elytra elongated, broader than pronotum basally, with faintly marked shoulders, smoothly curved at sides before regular apical curvature. Elytral markings: sutural and subsutural stripes forming a continuous sutural marking, broadest at level with apex of scutellum, quickly narrowing at base almost reaching border of scutellum basally, and gradually narrowing posteriorly to apical angle of elytra, slightly widening again at apical declivity; humeral spot and humeral lunule broadly confluent as large humeral marking, elongated on shoulder, with apex of lunule curved towards suture, slightly surpassing basal end of arcuate band; spot enclosed by humeral lunule large, elongated oval. Tibiae very hairy ventrally, with dense and long golden setae apically on rugose background. Abdominal ventrites shiny, smooth, finely, densely punctured at basal half, with fine hairs.

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