Calamispa Gressitt 1957b: 241

Synonomys

None.

Type Species

Calamispa fasciata Gressitt.

Diagnosis

Calamispa can be distinguished by the following combination of characters:

• lateral margin of 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
  and elytra without long, stiff spines
• head with frontal horn between antennae
• antennomere 1 without spine-like process
• anterior angle of 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
  not projecting
• elytra without scutellar row, no costae
• anterior margin of prosternumprosternum:
  contains two anterior coxal cavities
  not projecting forward, not partly covering mouth

Description

Body elongate, narrow; subparallel; flat; color orange-red with dark violet metallic markings; total length 5.5 mm.

Head: large; with quadrate cephalic plate, medial sulcus present; frontal horn narrow, subacute apically; fronsfrons:
upper anterior portion of head capsule above the clypeus
long, narrow, pubescent; eyeeye:
elongate, slightly prominent, multifaceted; usually slightly kidney-shaped
large.

Antenna: filiform; reaches to humerus; with 11-antennomeres; antennomere 1 distinctly longer than 2 and 3 combined; 2 shorter than 3; 4 to 10 subequal in length, each longer than 3; 11 longer than 10, pointed at apex.

Pronotum: slightly longer than wide; lateral margin rounded, without distinct anterior or posterior angles, finely margined; anterior margin rounded; posterior margin bisinuate; surface sparsely punctate, with 2 sizes of punctures.

Scutellum: short; rounded at apex.

Elytron: lateral margin straight, smooth; exterior apical angle rounded; apical margin rounded; humerus angulate, not produced; with 8 rows of punctures at base, with additional rows of punctures present near apex, scutellar row absent; no costae.

Venter: sparsely punctate; anterior margin of prosternumprosternum:
contains two anterior coxal cavities
not projecting forward, not partly covering mouth.

Distribution

Solomon Islands.

World Fauna

Described species: 1- Calamispa fasciata Gressitt (Staines 2012).

Hosts

Calamus (Araceae).

References

Gressitt, J. L. 1957b. Hispine beetles from the South Pacific (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Nova Guinea n. s. 8:205‑324.

Staines, C. L. 2012. Tribe Cryptonychini. Catalog of the hispines of the world (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). http://entomology.si.edu/Collections_Coleoptera.html