None.
Charistena basalis Baly.
Sternostena can be distinguished by the following combination of characters:
Body elongate, almost cylindrical.
Head: small, elongate; interocular area with some markings; antennaantenna:
3 to 11 segments, inserted in antennal pit in front of eyes
inserted into anterior of head.
Antenna: with 11‑antennomeres; antennomere 1 robust, longer than wide; 2 longer, more slender than 1; 3 longest, more slender than 2; 4 to 6 similar, shorter than 2; 7 to 11 somewhat thickened, more closely united than others.
Pronotum: slightly longer than wide; lateral margin curved.
Scutellum: quadrate, angle rounded.
Elytron: elongate, subparallel; apical denticulation irregular; with 8 rows of punctures plus scutellar row; tricostate.
Leg: short, relatively robust; mesotibia curved.
Venter: prosternumprosternum:
contains two anterior coxal cavities
projecting forward, covering part of mouth.
Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad.
Described species: 7 (Staines 2012). Key: Monrós & Viana 1947.
Paspalum (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
Weise, J. 1910b. Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Hispinen. Verhandlunger des Naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn 48:115‑162.