Acritispa Uhmann 1937: 336 (unavailable name).
Physocoryna dilatata Uhmann.
Acritispa can be distinguished by the following combination of characters:
Head: medial sulcus present; vertexvertex:
occupies the area behind and between the eyes
micropunctate.
Antenna: with 8‑antennomeres; antennomeres 1 and 2 subequal in length; 3 widened apically; 7 as wide as 8, difficult to distinguish; 8 hirsute club.
Pronotum: wider than long; tooth present in anterior angle; lateral margin evenly convergent from base to apex; two tooth‑like projections present on lateral margin; densely coarsely punctate.
Elytron: tuberculate; greatly expanded at apex; lateral and apical margins dentate; with lateral and transverse plicae (folds); translucent at exterior apical angle.
Leg: profemur expanded apically.
Bolivia, Brazil, Panamá, and Paraguay.
Described species: 2 (Staines 2012). Key to species: Staines (1988).
Unknown.
Staines, C. L. 1988. A review of the species of Acritispa Uhmann (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Hispinae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 90:192‑195.
Staines, C. L. 2012. Tribe Chalepini. Catalog of the hispines of the world (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). http://entomology.si.edu/Collections_Coleoptera.html
Uhmann, E. 1937. Übersicht über die ersten Gattungen der Uroplatini (Col. Chrys.). (67. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Hispinen). Entomologische Blätter 33:336-337.
Uhmann, E. 1940. Die Genotypen der von mir aufgestellten Hispinen-Gattung. 88. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Hispinen (Col. Chrys.). Entomologisk Tidskrift 61:143-144.