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Pentispa

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Pentispa is a genus of tortoise beetles and hispines in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 20 described species in Pentispa.

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GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderColeoptera
  5. FamilyChrysomelidae

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Specimen records
262
With media
4
Family
Chrysomelidae
Collections
ECOSUR, USNM, FMNH
Recorded in
Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador, Panamá, MéXico

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Pentispa is a genus of tortoise beetles and hispines in the family Chrysomelidae. There are more than 20 described species in Pentispa.

==Species== These species belong to the genus Pentispa: Pentispa aequatoriana Weise, 1910 Pentispa atrocaerulea (Champion, 1894) Pentispa beata (Baly, 1886) Pentispa bilimeki Spaeth, 1937 Pentispa bivittaticollis (Baly, 1885) Pentispa candezei (Chapuis, 1877) Pentispa chevrolati (Chapuis, 1877) Pentispa clarkella (Baly, 1886) Pentispa collaris (Thunberg, 1805) Pentispa distincta (Baly, 1886) Pentispa fairmairei (Chapuis, 1877) Pentispa geniculata Pic, 1932 Pentispa melanura (Chapuis, 1877) Pentispa perroudi Pic, 1933 Pentispa pratti Pic, 1932 Pentispa sallaei (Baly, 1886) Pentispa sanguinipennis (Baly, 1886) Pentispa sulcifrons (Champion, 1894) Pentispa suturalis (Baly, 1885) Pentispa vittatipennis (Baly, 1886) Pentispa viturati Pic, 1932

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