EUMOLPINAE - OVALOID LEAF BEETLES
Small to medium-sized beetles with dull or bright metallic colouration. They are subglobose to oblong-oval in shape. The head is deflexed anteriorly and the eyes are very slightly or entirely emarginate. Elytra cover the pygidium. Antennae are filiform and procoxae are round and globose, separated by the prosternum. Third tarsal segment is conspicuously bilobed. Larvae feed on roots.

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Thanks to Rob Westerduijn for his assistance with identification of some of the images in this gallery.
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FIGURE 1 - Alethaxius sp - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith November 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 2 - Alethaxius sp. - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith November 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 3 - Allocolaspis sp. - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith November 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 4 - Chalcophana sp. - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith November 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 5 - Colapsis sp. - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith November 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 6 - Percolapsis sp. - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Leila K August 2008 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).
FIGURE 7 - Unidentified sp. - PROCOSARA, PN San Rafael (Paul Smith November 2007 - ECOSARA Biodiversity Database).