Uroplata Baly.
Codiohispa Maulik 1930: 48.
Mimuroplata Pic 1933a: 389.
Uroplata (Plicatopalpa) Pic 1932b: 29.
Uroplata vicina Guérin-Méneville.
Uroplata can be distinguished by the following combination of characters:
Head: oblong, rounded; vertexvertex:
occupies the area behind and between the eyes
smooth or with no sulci.
Antenna: with 8‑antennomeres; antennomeres not laterally compressed; 7 and 8 with whorls of golden setae.
Pronotum: varying in form, at base narrower than elytra; lateral margin more or less rounded; disc frequently with 3 longitudinal vittae.
Scutellum: transverse.
Elytron: with 10 rows of punctures, scutellar row present or absent; 4 costae, 3 and 4 united on apex; 3 interrupted.
Leg: moderately long; protibia occasionally with a tooth; empodium present between tarsal claws.
Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.
Introduced to: Australia, Caroline Islands, Cook Islands, Fiji, Ghana, Guam, Hawaii, India, Mariana Islands, Mauritius, New Caledonia, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Palau, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Tanzania, Tonga Islands, Trinidad, Uganda, Vanuatu, Zambia.
Described species: 94 (Staines 2012). Key: Monrós & Viana 1947, Staines 1996(1997).
Dicliptera (Acanthaceae); Annona, Rollinia (Annonaceae); Aristolochia (Aristolochiaceae); Baccharis, Calea, Clibadium, Rolandra, Vernonia, Wedelia (Asteraceae); Arrhabidea,Bignonia, Pithecoctenium(Bignoniaceae);Bauhinia (Caesalpiniaceae); Igna, Sidedrella (Fabaceae); Ocotea (Laurineae); Brysonima, Malpighia (Malpighiaceae); Gouania (Rhamnaceae); Lantana, Lippa, Verbena (Verbenaceae); Caesaria (Geraniaceae).
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Maulik, S. 1930. New injurious Hispinae. Bulletin of Entomological Research 21:45-56.
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.
Pic, M. 1932b. Nouveautés diverses. Mélanges Exotico-Entomologiques 60:1-36.
Pic, M. 1933a. Nouveautés diverses. Mélanges Exotico-Entomologiques 62:1-36.
Staines, C. L. 1996(1997). The Hispinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Nicaragua. Revista Nicaragüense de Entomología 37/38:1-65.
Staines, C. L. 2012. Tribe Chalepini. Catalog of the hispines of the world (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). http://entomology.si.edu/Collections_Coleoptera.html