Bruchiella Weise 1916: 39 (invalid replacement name for Bruchia).
Bruchia sparsa Weise.
Bruchia can be distinguished by the following combination of characters:
Head: medial sulcus present.
Antenna: with 7‑antennomeres; antennomeres 1 to 5 very sharp, gradually widening after 3, apical two antennomeres less separated; 1 to 3 short, transverse; 4 to 5 very short, strongly transverse; 6 as long and wider than preceding two combined, as wide as 7; 7 subovate, pointed at apex.
Pronotum: narrow, width at base and apex equal; lateral margin deflexed, nearly parallel-sided; disc convex, regularly punctate; medial line finely impressed.
Scutellum: small, quadrate.
Elytron: 3x as long as pronotumpronotum:
occupies all of dorsal part of the prothorax; in anterior angles or posterior angles there may be a small tubercle or pore with a seta
, slightly convex; apex conjointly rounded; with 8 rows of punctures; lightly bicostate, costae interrupted, transversely united before apex.
Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panamá, Peru.
Described species: 4 (Staines 2012). Key: Staines (2007b).
Unknown.
Staines, C. L. 2007b. A review of the genus Bruchia Weise 1906 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Zootaxa 1449:45-50.
Staines, C. L. 2012. Tribe Chalepini. Catalog of the hispines of the world (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). http://entomology.si.edu/Collections_Coleoptera.html
Weise, J. 1906b. Hispinae, Coccinellidae et Endomychidae Argentina et Vicinitate e Collectione Bruchiana. Revista del Museo de La Plata 12:219-231.
Weise, J. 1916. Synonymische Mitteilungen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1916:37-41.