Pentispa fairmairei

Pentispa fairmairei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Genus:	Pentispa
Species:	P. fairmairei
Binomial name
Pentispa fairmairei (Chapuis, 1877) [1]
Synonyms
Uroplata (Pentispa) fairmaireiChapuis, 1877 Uroplata guatemalensisDonckier, 1899 Uroplata (Pentispa) rodrigueziChapuis, 1877 Uroplata (Pentispa) subvirensChapuis, 1877

Pentispa fairmairei is a species of beetle of the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico (Mexico City, Chiapas, Jalisco, Veracruz), ^[2] Nicaragua and Panama

Description

The head is black-aeneous or black, with the vertex and front deeply trisulcate and the clypeus semilunate, piceous, its upper margin free. The antennae are longer than the head and thorax. The thorax is transverse, the sides obtusely angulate, the upper surface excavated behind the middle, closely and deeply punctured. On either side, just within the lateral margin, is a broad, torulose, impunctate, fulvous vitta. The elytra are oblong, with the lateral margin serrulate, the apical one irregularly notched, emarginate at the sutural angle, strongly serrulate. Each elytron has eight regular rows of punctures, the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces, together with the suture, strongly costate. ^[3]

Biology

The recorded food plants are Chusquea species, Calea urticaefolia , Calea axillaries , Vernonia mollis , Verbesina species, Eupatorium populifolium , Clibadium species, Ageratina adenophora , Elephantopus spicatus , Malpighia glabra , Serjania species and Lepidaptoa tortuosa . ^[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.