Pentispa chevrolati

Pentispa chevrolati
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Genus:	Pentispa
Species:	P. chevrolati
Binomial name
Pentispa chevrolati (Chapuis, 1877) [1]
Synonyms
Uroplata (Pentispa) chevrolatiChapuis, 1877 Uroplata (Pentispa) fastidiosaChapuis, 1877

Pentispa chevrolati is a species of beetle of the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico (Veracruz). ^[2]

Description

The head is tinged with aeneous, the vertex and front impressed with three to five longitudinal grooves. The clypeus is produced, transverse and trigonate. The antennas are rather longer than the head and thorax, slightly thickened towards the apex. The thorax is transverse, the sides converging from the base to the apex, bisinuate. The upper surface is transversely convex, transversely excavated on the hinder disc, closely and strongly punctured. There is a subtorulose vitta on either side, rather less closely punctured than the disc, fulvous. The elytra are broader than the thorax, parallel on the sides, obtusely rounded at the apex. The lateral margin is finely, the apical one rather more distinctly, serrulate. Each elytron has eight, at the extreme base with nine, rows of punctures. The suture, together with the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces, moderately costate. ^[3]

Biology

The food plant is unknown. ^[4]

References

1. Integrated Taxonomic Information System
2. Mexican leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae, and Chrysomelidae): new records and checklist
3. Biologia Centrali-Americana: Insecta (Coleoptera) Vol. VI. part 2 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
4. Staines, C.L. (2012). "Hispines of the World: Tribe Chalepini" (PDF). USDA/APHIS/PPQ Science and Technology and National Natural History Museum. Retrieved August 26, 2025.