Paradecatelia Uhmann 1937b: 154 Nomen nudum.
Paradecatelia Uhmann 1940e: 143.
Decatelia lema Weise.
Decatelia can be distinguished by the following combination of characters:
Body small; rounded in front; eyeeye:
elongate, slightly prominent, multifaceted; usually slightly kidney-shaped
large.
Head: clypeusclypeus:
usually quadrangular, elongate; joined to the labrum
triangular, overlapping labrumlabrum:
triangular, joined to the clypeus and the oral orifice
.
Antenna: reaching humerus, filiform, with 9‑ or 10‑antennomeres; antennomere 2 longer than 1; 3 not significantly longer than 2; apical 5 antennomeres thicker and wider than preceding ones.
Pronotum: slightly wider than long, cylindrical; transverse sulcus present before base; lateral margin constricted before base.
Scutellum: transverse, quadrate.
Elytron: wider than 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
at humerus, almost parallel-sided; apex widely conjointly rounded; truncate at base; with 10 rows of punctures plus scutellar row; rows 5 to 8 in a longitudinal cavity with angular sides; rows before cavity confused or reduced to 2 or 3 rows.
Venter: abdominal sterna 1 and 2 separated by deep suture; prosternumprosternum:
contains two anterior coxal cavities
simple, truncate behind.
Leg: mesotibia curved; tarsal claws moderately divergent.
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia.
Described species: 7 (Staines 2012). Key: Monrós & Viana 1947.
Chusquea (Poaceae).
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. 2012. Tribe Chalepini. Catalog of the hispines of the world (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). http://entomology.si.edu/Collections_Coleoptera.html
Uhmann, E. 1937b. Südamerikanische Hispinen aus dem Deutschen Entomolgischen Institut, Berlin-Dahlem. II. Teil. 63. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Hispinen (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Arbeiten über morphologische und taxonomische Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem 4:153-157.
Uhmann, E. 1940e. Die Genotypen der von mir aufgestellten Hispinen-Gattung. 88. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Hispinen (Col. Chrys.). Entomologisk Tidskrift 61:143-144.
Weise, J. 1904b Einige neue Cassidinen und Hispinen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1904:433-452.