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Sceloenopla scherzeri

species of beetle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ119153460 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sceloenopla scherzeri is a species of beetle of the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama.

Description

Adults are elongate, subdepressed, dilated towards the apex and pale opaque fulvous. The antennae, eyes, a central vitta, and the extreme lateral border of the thorax, the scutellum, and a short longitudinal stripe at the base of the elytra, just within their outer border, are all black.

Life history

The recorded host plant for this species is Davilla nitida.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sceloenopla scherzeri” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.