Species Xanthonia texana

Xanthonia texana Weisman, 2019

length 2.5–3.4 mm (1)

ground color of dorsum light reddish brown, elytra ranging from immaculate to a pattern of well-defined brownish to black maculae76), venter of body brownish to distinctly darkened or partially black; pubescence of elytra composed of erect hairs on intervals in single lines and smaller appressed hairs arising from punctures nearly as long as erect hairs; ventral tooth of profemur minute to obsolete (1)

can be difficult to identify without reference to the male genitalia. Its pattern of dark maculation, when well developed, differs slightly from similar species. (1)

PARATYPE

TX, 1137 spmns examined from Val Verde to Victoria to Wharton to Tarrant County (1)

primarily the post oak savanna and blackland prairie regions of east-central Texas, but extending well into the eastern portion of the Edwards Plateau (1)

March to August in TX (1), mostly April in CenTex (2)

mostly on cedar elm - Ulmus crassifolia (2)

Type Locality: Victoria, TX, 3-30-10, WDPierce & JDMitchell collectors, sweeping herbage

Quinn, M.A. 2000. Abundance and distribution of potential arthropod prey species in a typical Golden-cheeked Warbler habitat. Unpublished Thesis. Texas A&M University, College Station. ix + 182 pp. (2)

Riley, E.G., D.M. Weisman, and M.A. Quinn. 2019. A taxonomic review of the Xanthonia species occurring in Texas (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae). Zootaxa 4668(1): 001–029. (1)

Weisman, D. M. 1960. A revision of the species of the genus Xanthonia Baly in America north of Mexico. unpublished thesis, North Carolina State College, Raleigh. vii + 69 pp.