Hybosispa Weise 1910
Creators: name: Sekerka, Lukáš
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Hybosispa

description: Key to species of Hybosispa   
 1 Abdominal ventrites bare; antennae short and thick, distal antennomeres as wide as long. Lowland or mid-elevation species (usually below 1000 m) from southern Mexico to southern Brazil............................................................... Hybosispa Weise, 1910... 2   
 – Abdominal ventrites densely pubescent; antennae longer and slender, most of distal antennomeres longer than wide. Eight species in the Cordillera in Central America and the Andes from Costa Rica to Bolivia; all species at elevations above 1200 m................................................................................................................... Solenispa Weise, 1905   
2 Dorsum uniformly black............................................................................................... 3  
– Dorsum at least partly red............................................................................................. 5  
3 Legs and antennae dark coloured, pitchy-brown; frons weekly impressed with low and obtuse medial carina reaching only anterior part of vertex........................................... 4  
 – Legs and antennomere I pale coloured, yellowish-brown; frons deeply impressed between eyes with sharp and high mid carina extending to whole width of vertex. Brazil: Rio de Janeiro............................................................................. H. claripes (Pic, 1923)   
 4 Abdomen black; pronotum parallel-sided in whole length not converging in anterior third. Brazil: Santa Catarina.............................................................................................................................................................................................. H. nitida Uhmann, 1939   
 – Abdomen reddish-brown; sides of pronotum rounded in anterior third and distinctly converging anteriad. Brazil: Santa Catarina..................... H. rufiventris Uhmann, 1940   
5 At least apical part of elytra black................................................................................. 6  
– Dorsum uniformly red................................................................................................... 9  
6 Head black; inner margin of eyes not strongly carinate and projecting anteriad.......... 7  
– Head red; inner margin of eyes forming sharp carina, which is projecting anteriad.... 8  
 7 Pronotum 1.6–1.7 times as wide as long with conspicuously flat antero-lateral sides. Brazil: Rio de Janeiro............................................................ H. strandi Uhmann, 1933   
 – Pronotum 1.3–1.4 times as wide as long, not flattened on sides. Bolivia: Cochabamba....................................................................................................... H. macella (Pic, 1923)   
 8 Pronotum subrectangular, for most length parallel-sided and tapering anterad only at anterior corners; abdomen and thorax mostly black. Peru: Cuzco....................................................................................................................................... H. bipartita (Pic, 1926)   
 – Pronotum in anterior third rounded distinctly tapering anterad; ventral side red. Bolivia: La Paz and Peru: Marcapata................................................. H. melanura Weise, 19102   
9 Smaller species, body length below 4 mm. Central-American species...................... 10  
 – Larger species, length 5.7 mm. Described from ‘Upper Amazons’......................................................................................................................... H. truncatipennis (Baly, 1869)   
 10 Pronotum transverse, 1.4 times as wide as long; distal antennomeres brown. Costa Rica and Panamá............................................................................ H. sulciceps (Baly, 1885)   
 – Pronotum subquadrate, 1.1 times as wide as long; distal antennomeres black. Mexico: Chiapas........................................................................... H. delectabilis (Staines, 1996)
description: Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2017, Taxonomic changes within Imatidiini and Hybosispini (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae), pp. 351-380 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 57 (2) on pages 377-378, DOI: 10.1515/aemnp-2017-0081, http://zenodo.org/record/5316262