None.
Hispa metallica Fabricius.
Stenispa can be distinguished by the following combination of characters:
Body cylindrical or flattened; parallel‑sided or narrowing posteriorly.
Head: small, rounded; fronsfrons:
upper anterior portion of head capsule above the clypeus
concave; maxillary palp with palpomere 1 small, 2 and 3 obconical, subequal in length and width, 4 oval, acuminate; antennaantenna:
3 to 11 segments, inserted in antennal pit in front of eyes
inserted close to eyeeye:
elongate, slightly prominent, multifaceted; usually slightly kidney-shaped
in shallow pits, divided by longitudinal keel; eyeeye:
elongate, slightly prominent, multifaceted; usually slightly kidney-shaped
oval, finely faceted, slightly prominent.
Antenna: with 11‑antennomeres; antennomeres 1 to 2 subglobose; 3 to 10 cylindrical, 3 longer than 4; 11 subacute, slightly dilated toward apex.
Pronotum: quadrate; slightly narrower than elytra; anterior margin rounded; lateral margin straight.
Scutellum: pentagonal or subcylindrical.
Elytron: elongate; slightly convex; narrowing apically; lateral and apical margins finely dentate; with 10 rows of punctures plus scutellar row.
Venter: metepisternum very narrow at middle; prosternumprosternum:
contains two anterior coxal cavities
narrow, longitudinally furrowed; abdominal sternites 1 and 2 with suture obsolete in middle.
Leg: short; robust; femurfemur:
largest part of the leg; more or less cylindrical, attached at base to trochanter and at apex to tibia
stout; tibiatibia:
variable in length; joins femur and tarsus
not arcuate, slightly flattened; tarsomeres dilated, densely pubescent beneath, tarsomere 4 with nearly half its length projecting beyond 3; claws stout, moderately arcuate, divaricate.
Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, United States.
Described species: 21 (Staines 2012). Key: Monrós & Viana (1947); Staines (2006).
Carex, Cyperus, Scirpus (Cyperaceae); Andropogon, Paspalum, Spartina (Poaceae).
Baly, J. S. 1858. Catalogue of Hispidae in the collection of the BritishMuseum. London, 172 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. 2006. 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 Imatidiini. Catalog of the hispines of the world (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). http://entomology.si.edu/Collections_Coleoptera.html