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Crops Ornamentals Bromeliads Brontispa sp., Mexico

Brontispa sp., Mexico

October 2004. The beetle was collected from bromeliads imported from Mexico. The specimen is 7mm in length. The tarsal formula appears to be 4-4-4 with 1 to 3 lobed and setose and the 3rd distinctly bilobed (like chrysomelids).

The consensus was that it is a hispine chrysomelid. Brontispa longissima and Promecotheca papuana of this group are serious Cocoa and Coconut. There is the possibility that it is a species of Brontispa (Chrysomelidae: Hispinae).