Cladispa Baly 1858: 22

Synonomys

None.

Type Species

Cladispa quadrimaculata Baly.

Diagnosis

Cladispa can be distinguished by the following combination of characters:

• the lateral margins of the 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 the elytra without long, stiff spines
• the head without a frontal horn; mouthparts not projecting forward
• the 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
  with a seta in each anterior angle, with transverse sulcus
• the apex of the elytra without a tooth-like projection
• the elytra without costae, rounded
• the antennae with 11-antennomeres, antennomeres 1-10 pectinate (comb-like)

Description

Body broadly oval; flattened.

Head: short; vertexvertex:
occupies the area behind and between the eyes
punctate; fronsfrons:
upper anterior portion of head capsule above the clypeus
vertical; eyeeye:
elongate, slightly prominent, multifaceted; usually slightly kidney-shaped
oval; maxillary palp with palpomere 2 almost as long as other three combined; clypeusclypeus:
usually quadrangular, elongate; joined to the labrum
with margin evenly arcuate.

Antenna: with 11-antennomeres, 1/2 body length; antennomeres 1 to 10 pectinate (comb-like) in both sexes; 2 to 5 wider than 1; antennomere 1 thicker than 2 or 3, cylindrical; 2 and 3 compressed laterally; apical 6 antennomeres slender and short, gradually decreasing in thickness.

Pronotum: at midline wider than long, convex; disc impunctate; lateral margin parallel for basal 3/4s, then sharply convergent, punctate, and margined laterally; basal margin bisinuate; basal impression present, defined by a transverse sulcus; anterior margin slightly emarginate.

Scutellum: short, almost pentagonal; impunctate.

Elytron: slightly 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
; with 10 rows of shallow punctures; margined laterally.

Venter: smooth; with 4 visible abdominal sterna.

Leg: tibiatibia:
variable in length; joins femur and tarsus
emarginate on outer surface, concave enough to cover tarsi; tarsomere 4 does not project beyond lobes of 3.

Distribution

French Guyana, Guyana.

World Fauna

Described species: 1- Cladispa quadrimaculata Baly (Staines 2012).

Hosts

Cyrtopodium (Orchidaceae).

References

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