Sumitrosis pallescens is a species of leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Central America and North America,White, Richard E. (1968). A Review of the Genus Cryptocephalus in America North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Press. where it has been recorded from the United States (Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia), Costa Rica, Mexico (Guerrero, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz),Mexican leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae, and Chrysomelidae): new records and checklist Nicaragua and Panama.
Description Adults reach a length of about 3.1-3.5 mm. The pronotum and elytra are pale yellow, the latter with some piceous spots towards the apex.
Biology The recorded food plant is Chamaecrista fasciculata, while adults have been collected on Chamaecrista nictitans.
References
Riley, Edward G., Shawn M. Clark, and Terry N. Seeno (2003). "Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae)". Coleopterists Society Special Publication no. 1, 290.
Further reading
Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.