Calepus Thunberg (sic).
Cephalodonta (Chalepus) Thunberg.
Anoplitis Kirby 1837: 227 (in part).
Parachalepus Baly 1885: 47.
Hispa sanguinicollis Linnaeus.
Chalepus can be distinguished by the following combination of characters:
Head: wider than long; vertexvertex:
occupies the area behind and between the eyes
sulcate or micropunctate; frontal carina feebly developed, elongate or diamond‑shaped, extending between antennaantenna:
3 to 11 segments, inserted in antennal pit in front of eyes
and joining clypeal base; clypeusclypeus:
usually quadrangular, elongate; joined to the labrum
large and usually longer than wide, triangularly elevated, apex feebly arcuate, surface finely punctate or coarsely granularly tuberculate with long white setae.
Antenna: with 11-antennomeres; basal antennomere incrassate.
Pronotum: transverse; convex; slight basal depression with ante‑scutellar transverse carina; lateral margin angulate in middle.
Elytron: subelongate, parallel, slightly indented at sides; apex regularly rounded, finely serrulate; with 10 rows of punctures at base and apex, may be reduced after middle, scutellar row absent.
Venter: sparsely, irregularly micropunctate; abdominal sternite 5 apically truncate.
Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Bequita, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guana, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, México, Mona, Monsterrat, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, St. Croix, St. Vincent, Suriname, Tortola, Union, United States, Venezuela, Vieques.
Described species: 94 (Staines 2012). Key: Butte (1968b); Uhmann (1936e); Monrós & Viana (1947); Staines (1996) 1997, 2006b.
Aristolochia (Aristolochiaceae); Verbesina (Asteraceae); Arrabidea (Bignoniaceae); Cordia (Boraginaceae); Aloysia, Bauhinia (Caesalpinaceae); Actinostemon sp. (Euphorbiaceae); Benthamantha, Phaseolus (Fabaceae); Chusquea, Dichanthelium, Elymus, Hystrix, Lasiacis, Olyra, Panicum, Pasaplum, Lasiacis, Valota, Yaguapinda, Zea (Poaceae).
Baly, J. S. 1885. Hispidae. in F. D. Godman & O. Salvin (eds.). Biologia Centrali‑Americana, Zoology, Insecta, Coleoptera, Phytophaga. 6(2):1‑124. London.
Butte, J. G. 1968b. The revision of the tribe Chalepini of America north of Mexico. II. Genus Chalepus Thunberg (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 75:117‑133.
Kirby, W. 1837. in J. Richardson, Fauna Boreali‑Americana. Part 4, Insects. 325 pp.
Monrós, F. & M. J. Viana. 1947. Revisión sistemática de los Hispidae Argentinos (Insecta, Coleop. Chrysomeloid.). Anales del Museo Argentino Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" 42:125-324.
Staines, C. L. 1996(1997). The Hispinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Nicaragua. Revista Nicaragüense de Entomología 37/38:1-65.
Staines, C. L. 2006b. The hispine beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) of America north of Mexico. VirginiaMuseum of Natural History Special Publication Number 13. 178 pp.
Staines, C. L. 2012. Tribe Chalepini. Catalog of the hispines of the world (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). http://entomology.si.edu/Collections_Coleoptera.html
Thunberg, C. P. 1805. 29. Stud. Den 21. Februar 1805. inGottingen gelehrte Anzeiger. 1805:281‑282.
Uhmann, E. 1936e. Amerikanische Hispinen aus dem Zoologischen Museum der Universität Berlin. V. Teil. Die Gattung Chalepus i. sp. Thunberg. 61. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Hispinen (Col. Chrys.). Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstage von Professor Dr. Embrik Strand 1:613-629.