Pentispa vittatipennis

Pentispa vittatipennis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Genus:	Pentispa
Species:	P. vittatipennis
Binomial name
Pentispa vittatipennis (Baly, 1886) [1]
Synonyms
Uroplata vittatipennisBaly, 1886

Pentispa vittatipennis is a species of beetle of the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua.

Description

The vertex is deeply trisulcate and the interocular space is rather strongly produced. The clypeus is blackish-piceous, prominent, transverse and subpentangular. The antennae are robust and longer than the head and thorax, scarcely thickened towards the apex. The thorax is transverse, the sides obliquely converging from the base to the apex, distinctly angulate. The upper surface is transversely convex, flattened on the hinder disc, coarsely and strongly punctured. There is a subcallose, nearly impunctate, vitta on either side, obscure fulvous. The scutellum is transverse, its apex truncate. The elytra is oblong, parallel on the sides, rounded at the apex. Each elytron has eight regular rows of punctures, the second, fourth, and sixth interspaces, together with the suture, costate. ^[2]

Biology

The recorded food plants are Asteraceae species. ^[3]

References

1. Integrated Taxonomic Information System
2. Biologia Centrali-Americana: Insecta (Coleoptera) Vol. VI. part 2 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
3. 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.