Macrispa Baly 1858: 90

Synonomys

None.

Type Species

Macrispa saundersi Baly.

Diagnosis

Macrispa 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 without frontal horn between antennae
• pronotum pronotum:
  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
  without seta in any angle
• profemur with tooth on inner margin, meso- and metafemora unarmed
• elytral punctures confused laterally
• elytra expanding apically

Description

Large (20-27 mm); elongate; head, antennae, 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
, venter, and legs black, elytra red.

Head: large; eyeeye:
elongate, slightly prominent, multifaceted; usually slightly kidney-shaped
oval; vertexvertex:
occupies the area behind and between the eyes
depressed, finely rugose; clypeusclypeus:
usually quadrangular, elongate; joined to the labrum
absent; labrumlabrum:
triangular, joined to the clypeus and the oral orifice
setose; labium transverse, small; mandible robust, triangular; maxillary palps with palpomeres 1 to 3 obconic, 4 oval, compressed laterally.

Antenna: ½ body length; filiform; with 11-antennomeres; antennomere 1 subglobose; 3 to 6 with elongate punctures; 7 to 11 elongate, impunctate.

Pronotum: subquadrate; lateral margin sinuate, divergent base to apex; surface with apical ½ impunctate, with longitudinal sulcus; basal ½ deeply, coarsely punctate, variolose-punctate laterally; transverse basal impression present.

Scutellum: triangular; impunctate.

Elytron: elongate; dilated apically; apex rounded; sutural angle with acute tooth; surface punctate, punctures in regular rows near suture, confused laterally; interspaces subcostate.

Leg: ventral surface of profemur with deep sulcus, with tooth on inner margin; meso- and metafemora unarmed.

Distribution

Bangladesh, Bhutan, India.

World Fauna

Described species: 1- Macrispa saundersi Baly (Staines 2012).

Hosts

Unknown.

References

Baly, J. S. 1858. Catalogue of Hispidae in the collection of the BritishMuseum. London, 172 pp.

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