None.
Melanispa truncata Baly.
Melanispa can be distinguished by the following combination of characters:
Head: moderately slender, flat; triangular depression present on vertexvertex:
occupies the area behind and between the eyes
; punctate between eyes; palpomere 3 of labial palp clavate, longer and wider than preceding.
Antenna: with 11-antennomeres, slender, filiform, 1/2 length of body; antennomere 1 thickened; 3 longest; 1 to 5 shiny, others dull.
Pronotum: transverse, slightly narrower than elytra; disc depressed; sparsely punctate; lateral margin convergent from base to apex; margined laterally; basal margin bisinuate.
Scutellum: large, triangular.
Elytron: lateral and apical margins smooth; humerus not produced; parallel-sided; truncate at apex; pygidium not exposed; with 10 rows of lightly impressed punctures plus scutellar row.
Venter: pro-, meso-, and metasterna smooth medially, punctate laterally; with 5 visible abdominal sterna.
Cuba, Guadeloupe.
Described species: 2 (Staines 2012). Key to species: none.
Unknown.
Baly, J. S. 1858. Catalogue of Hispidae in the collection of the BritishMuseum. London, 172 pp.
Staines, C. L. 2012. Tribe Imatidiini. Catalog of the hispines of the world (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). http://entomology.si.edu/Collections_Coleoptera.html