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Tribe Hispini Gyllenhal 1813 Hispoideae Gyllenhal 1813:448. Bouchard et al. 2011:515 (nomenclature). Hispites Fairmaire 1868:259. Chapuis 1875:263 (tribal classification); Handlirsch 1925:666

(classification); Gressitt 1950:94 (China species). Hispinae Chapuis. Gestro 1905b:519 (faunal list); Yang & Sun 1991:59 (types). Hispini Chapuis. Würmli 1975a:57 (genera); Staines 2004a:315 (host plants). Monochirites Chapuis 1875:263. Handlirsch 1925:666 (classification); Gressitt 1950:94 (China

species); Bouchard et al. 2011:515 (nomenclature). Monochirinae Chapuis. Gestro 1905b:538 (faunal list). Monochirini Weise 1905f:317. Gestro 1905b:556 (catalog); Handlirsch 1925:666 (classification);

Gressitt 1950:94 (China species); Bouchard et al. 2011:515 (nomenclature). Trichispites Chapuis 1875:263. Gressitt 1950:94 (China species); Bouchard et al. 2011:515

(nomenclature). Hispini Weise 1905f:317. Gestro 1905b:548 (catalog); 1909b:255 (Madagascar species), 1914:

280 (faunal list), 1920:396 (faunal list); Weise 1911a:59 (catalog), 1911b:89 (description); Maulik 1915:373 (museum list); Schaufuss 1916:1010 (faunal list); Dudich 1920:151 (stridulation); Handlirsch 1925:666 (classification); Hansen 1927:261 (faunal list); Hendriksen 1927:367 (faunal list); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Uhmann 1931g:79 (museum list), 1931i:850 (museum list), 1940g:121 (claws), 1943d:202 (sculpture), 1949a:5 (key), 1949b:669 (noted), 1945-1948:177 (noted), 1953b:20 (faunal list), 1954a:189 (faunal list), 1954f:26 (faunal list), 1954g:94 (West Africa species), 1954h:184 (faunal list), 1956f:339 (catalog), 1958e:260 (catalog), 1959d:6 (scutellum), 1960b:64 (faunal list), 1960c:17 (faunal list), 1960d:374 (faunal list), 1960e:260 (faunal list), 1961a:30 (noted), 1964a:467 (catalog), 1964c:170 (faunal list), 1964(1965):248 (faunal list), 1966b:216 (faunal list), 1966d:276 (noted), 1968a:362 (faunal list), 1969:298 (faunal list); Chûjô 1933:318 (Taiwan species); Liu 1936:249 (China species); Wu 1937:913 (faunal list); Gressitt 1938:325 (faunal list), 1939a:169 (distribution), 1939b:200 (distribution), 1939c:137 (distribution), 1950:94 (China species), 1953b:125 (distribution), 1957b:311 (South Pacific species), 1960a:89 (New Guinea species), 1960b:705 (New Guinea species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:912 (China species); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:164 (catalog); Chen et al. 1986:596 (China species); Jolivet 1988b:13 (host plants), 1989b:311 (host plants); Petitpierre et al. 1988:179 (chromosomes); Jolivet & Hawkeswood 1995:155 (host plants); Cox 1996a:171 (pupae); Jolivet & Verma 2002:62 (noted); Mohamedsaid 2004:179 (Malaysian species); Chaboo 2007:179 (phylogeny).

Hispini Gyllenhal 1813. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog); Bouchard et al. 2011:78 (nomenclature); Liao et al. 2015:162 (host plants).

Acmenychus Weise 1905f

Acmenychus Weise 1905f:318. Type species: Hispa inermis Zubkoff 1833, by monotypy. Weise 1911a:60 (catalog), 1911b:91 (redescription); Maulik 1919:156 (India species), 1939: 147 (noted); Reitter 1927:34 (Palearctic species); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Liu


1936:253 (China species); Wu 1937:913 (faunal list); Uhmann 1940g:122 (claws), 1949a:5 (key), 1958e:264 (catalog), 1964a:468 (catalog); Gressitt 1950:98 (China species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:914 (China species); Würmli 1975a:67 (genera); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); Jolivet 1989b:312 (host plants); Jolivet & Hawkeswood 1995:156 (host plants); Warchalowski 2003:556 (Europe species); Chaboo 2007:139 (noted); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog).

Monochirus Heyden 1878:343 (not Chapuis). Weise 1893:1061 (faunal list), 1897:144 (faunal list); Reitter 1927:34 (Palearctic species); Liu 1937:250 (China species); Gressitt 1938:325 (faunal list).

Decispella Uhmann 1936:409 (nomen nudum). Decispella Uhmann 1940e:143. Type species: Decispella monochiri Uhmann 1940e, by

monotypy. Uhmann 1940g:122 (claws), 1943d:202 (sculpture), 1954:5 (West Africa species), 1958e:260 (catalog); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list).

Acmenychus caucasicus (Heyden 1879) Monochirus caucasicus Heyden 1878:343 (Nomen Nudum). Monochirus caucasicus Heyden 1879:87 (type: Elisabetpol, depository unknown). Kismali

1989:88 (faunal list). Acmenychus caucasicus (Heyden). Uhmann 1942d:212 (noted), 1943d:203 (sculpture), 1949a:5

(key), 1958e:264 (catalog); Würmli 1976e:367 (noted); Lopatin 1985:771 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog).

Hispa inermis Motschulsky 1861:239 (not Zubkoff) (type: Kirguieses, depository unknown). Monochirus inermis (Motschulsky). Chapuis 1877:47 (redescription); Weise 1889:487 (noted),

1893:1061 (faunal list), 1897:145 (noted), 1911a:60 (catalog), 1911b:91 (catalog); Reitter 1927:34 (faunal list).

Distribution: Armenia, Iran, Turkey. Food plant: Unknown. Acmenychus discernenda (Uhmann 1949) Decispella discernenda Uhmann 1949:43 (type: East Africa, Mt. Elgon, ZSMC). Uhmann

1954h:185 (West Africa species), 1955c:242 (distribution), 1956h:5 (museum list), 1958e:260 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:371 (types); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list). Distribution: French Guinea, Ivory Coast, Northern Rhodesia, Rwanda Food plant: Unknown.

Acmenychus inermis (Zubkoff 1833) Hispa inermis Zubkoff 1833:337 (type: Kirghiz, depository unknown). Dejean 1837:390

(collection list); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog). Monochirus inermis (Zubkoff). Weise 1890:486 (comparative note); Winkler 1929:1353

(catalog). Acmenychus inermis (Zubkoff). Weise 1905f:318 (transfer), 1911a:60 (catalog), 1911b:91

(catalog); Maulik 1919:156 (India species); Reitter 1927:34 (Palearctic species); Uhmann 1942d:212 (morphology), 1943d:203 (sculpture), 1949a:5 (key), 1949f:64 (museum list), 1958e:265 (catalog), 1964a:468 (catalog); Gressitt 1950:99 (China


species); L. Medvedev 1957:295 (Russian species), 1968:81 (larva); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:915 (China species); Würmli 1976e:367 (noted); Kismali 1989:87 (faunal list); Krivosheina & Nikulina 1991:55 (biology); Lopatin 1985:771 (faunal list), 1999:168 (faunal list); Mirzoeva 2001:50 (faunal list); Hua 2002:286 (faunal list); Warchalowski 2003:556 (Europe species); Santiago-Blay 2004:53 (host plant); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog).

Monochirus potanini Weise 1889:485 (type: Mongolia, ZMHB?). Weise 1893:1061 (faunal list), 1897:145 (noted), 1901:238 (noted), 1904b:451 (noted); Donckier 1899:598 (catalog); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog).

Acmenychus potanini (Weise). Weise 1905f:318 (noted), 1911a:60 (catalog), 1911b:92 (catalog); Reitter 1927:34 (Palearctic species); Liu 1936:253 (China species); Wu 1937:913

(faunal list); Uhmann 1942d:212 (synonymy). Distribution: Azerbaijan, China (Xinjiang), Iran, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tadzhikistan. Food plants: Phragmites communis Trinius (Lopatin 1985); P. australis (Cav.) Trin ex Steud (Krivosheina & Nikulina 1991) (Poaceae).

Acmenychus monochiri (Uhmann 1940e) Decispella monochiri Uhmann 1936:410 (nomen nudum). Uhmann 1938c:114 (museum list). Decispella monochiri Uhmann 1940e:143 (type: locality not specified, depository unknown).

Uhmann 1942a:32 (faunal list), 1943d:206 (sculpture), 1947a:134 (faunal list), 1949f:43 (faunal list), 1958e:260 (catalog).

Distribution: Angola, Rwanda. Food plant: Unknown.

Acmenychus planus Maulik 1919 Acmenychus planus Maulik 1919:409 (type: Arabia, BMNH). Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog);

Uhmann 1949a:5 (noted), 1958e:265 (catalog); Würmli 1979:317 (faunal list); L. Medvedev 1996:261 (faunal list); Lopatin et al. 2003:108 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog). Distribution: Israel, Jordan, Turkomania, Kurdistan, Saudi Arabia. Food plant: Unknown.

Asamangulia Maulik 1915

Asamangulia Maulik 1915:378. Type species: Asamangulia cuspidata Maulik 1915, by monotypy. Maulik 1919:169 (India species), 1939:147 (noted); Chûjô 1933:322 (Taiwan species); Uhmann 1943d:202 (sculpture), 1958e:272 (catalog); Gressitt 1950:104 (China species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:916 (China species); Würmli 1975a:66 (genera); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); Anand 1984:11 (noted); Chen et al. 1986:350 (China species); Jolivet 1989b:312 (host plants); T’an 1993:382 (faunal list); Kimoto & Takizawa 1994:344 (Japan species); Jolivet & Hawkeswood 1995:155 (host plants); Kimoto & Chu 1996:129 (faunal list); Staines 1997b:412 (Uhmann species list); Basu 1999:177 (distribution); Kimoto 1987:30 (Japanese species), 1999:118 (southeast Asia


species), 2005:100 (faunal list); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 2005:334 (Nepal species); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog). Asmanguila Maulik (sic). Nayar et al. 1976:353 (lapsus calami, noted); Anand 1989:4 (faunal list), 1997:5 (morphology); Chaboo 2007:98 (noted).

Asamangulia cuspidata Maulik 1915 Asamangulia cuspidata Maulik 1915:378 (type: India, BMNH, NZSI?, MCSN). Maulik

1919:169 (India species), 1937:153 (host plant); Handlirsch 1925:666 (classification); Uhmann 1927d:113 (noted), 1954o:174 (faunal list), 1958e:272 (catalog); Isaac & Misra 1933:315 (immatures); Anwar 1944:248 (parasites); Prasad & Triar 1955:426 (biology); Kalshoven 1957:11 (host plant); Sen-Gupta & Behura 1957:35 (noted); Prasad & Butani 1962:138 (morphology); Lopatin 1963:371 (faunal list); David & Kumaraswami 1975:73 (pest species); Nair 1975:141 (pest species); Nayar et al. 1976:353 (noted); Würmli 1976e:367 (noted); Mann & Crowson 1983b:2 (noted); Suzuki 1983a:94 (noted); L. Medvedev 1985:377 (faunal list), 1986:46 (faunal list); Mann & Crowson 1985a:79 (male genitalia), 1996:301 (internal sac); Gruev 1988:166 (faunal list); Mann 1988:125 (male genitalia); Zaka-Ur-Rab 1991:22 (biology); Anand 1997:10 (morphology); Basu 1999:177 (distribution); Kimoto 1999:118 (southeast Asia species); Quicke & Polaszek 2000:106 (parasites); Santiago-Blay 2004:54 (host plants).

Asamangulia cuspidate Maulik (sic). Chaboo 2007:150 (lapsus calami, phylogeny). Asmanguila cuspidata Maulik (sic). Anand 1989:4 (lapsus calami, India species). Asamangulia dreesi Uhmann 1954o:174 (type: Afghanistan, Nuristan, Bashgultal, NMPC,

NHRS). Uhmann 1958e:272 (catalog); Lopatin 1963:371 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:371 (types); Würmli 1976e:367 (synonymy); Staines 1997b:412 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Afghanistan, India (Bihar, West Bengal), Thailand. Food plants: Saccharum officinarum L. (Fletcher 1921); Oryza sativa L. (Maulik 1919); Sorghum sp. (Prasad & Triar 1955) (Poaceae).

Asamangulia horni Uhmann 1927d Asamangulia horni Uhmann 1927d:112 (type: Taiwan, Tainan, DEI). Chûjô 1933:322 (Taiwan

species), 1954:47 (host plant); Gressitt 1950:104 (China species); Kalshoven 1957:11 (host plant); Uhmann 1958e:272 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:916 (China species); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:375 (types); Staines 1997b:412 (Uhmann species list); Hua 2002:287 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:54 (host plants); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog). Distribution: Taiwan. Food plants: Saccharum officinarum L. (Chûjô 1954); S. sinensis (Gressitt 1950) (Poaceae).

Asamangulia longispina Gressitt 1950 Asamangulia reticulata Gressitt 1938:325 (not Baly) (type: China, Hainan, ICRI). Gressitt

1939b:200 (faunal list).


Asamangulia longispina Gressitt 1950:104 (replacement name from Asamangulia reticulata Gressitt). Uhmann 1958e:273 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:916 (China species); T’an 1993:382 (faunal list); Staines & Staines 1997:12 (types); Hua 2002:287 (faunal list); T’an 2002:460 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog). Distribution: China (Fukien, Guangdong, Hainan, Jiangxi, Kiangsi, Kwangtung, Yunnan, Zhejiang). Food plant: Miscanthus sp.? (Poaceae) (Gressitt 1950).

Asamangulia tuberculosus (Motschulsky 1861) Hispa tuberculosus Motschulsky 1861:239 (type: Nepal, ZMUM). Hispa tuberculosa Motschulsky. Motschulsky 1869:80 (types); Gemminger & Harold 1876:

3618 (catalog); Donckier 1899:612 (catalog). Monochirus tuberculosus (Motschulsky). Weise 1897:145 (noted). Acmenychus tuberculosus (Motschulsky). Weise 1911a:60 (catalog), 1911b:92 (catalog); Maulik

1919:156 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:265 (catalog). Asamangulia tuberculosa (Motschulsky). Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1998:41 (faunal list),

1999a:343 (faunal list), 2005:334 (Nepal species); Kimoto 2005:100 (faunal list); L. Medvedev 2006:417 (types); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog); SprecherUebersax 2011:487 (faunal list). Distribution: India, Nepal. Food plant: Unknown.

Asamangulia wakkeri (Zehntner 1896) Hispella wakkeri Zehntner 1896:796 (type: Java, depository unknown). Koningsberger 1898:37

(biology); van Deventer 1906:66 (biology); Reh 1913:532 (noted); Leefmans 1918b:78 (noted); Uhmann 1943d:206 (sculpture); Kalshoven 1951:760 (host plant), 1957:11 (host plant), 1981:456 (host plant); Speyer 1954:367 (noted).

Hispa (Asamangulia) wakkeri Zehntner. Dammerman 1919:87 (host plant), 1929:93 (host plant). Hispella walkeri Zehntner. Frost 1924:464 (host plant); Speyer 1932:226 (noted). Hispa wakkeri Zehntner. Taylor 1937:145 (host plant). Asamangulia wakkeri (Zehntner). Gestro 1919:343 (host plant); Maulik 1919:11 (noted), 1937:

153 (host plant); Uhmann 1927d:113 (noted), 1935g:148 (faunal list), 1958e:273 (catalog); Grist & Lever 1969:225 (biology); Al-Ahmadi & Salem 1993:121 (host plant); Maddison 1993:383, 405 (host plant); Santiago-Blay 2004:54 (host plants).

Asamangulia walkeri (Zehntner) (sic). Baltazar 1968:221 (lapsus calami, mites). Distribution: Indonesia (Java), Saudi Arabia (?). Food plants: Bamboo (Zehntner 1896); Saccharum officinatum L. (van Deventer 1906); Oryza sativa L. (von Heurn 1923), Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. (Al-Ahmadi & Salem 1993) (Poaceae).

Asamangulia yonakuni Kimoto & Gressitt 1966 Asamangulia yonakuni Kimoto & Gressitt 1966:570 (type: Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Kubara,

Yonaguni, KUEC). Kimoto 1967:37 (faunal list), 1987:30 (Japanese species), 1989:483 (faunal list); Kimoto & Takizawa 1994:344 (Japan species).


Distribution: Japan (Ryukyu Islands). Food plant: Unknown.

Callanispa Uhmann 1959b

Callanispa Uhmann 1959b:229. Type species: Callanispa rasa Uhmann 1959b, by monotypy. Uhmann 1964a:470 (catalog); Würmli 1975a:65 (genera); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); Staines 1997b:413 (Uhmann species list), 2011:1 (noted); Chaboo 2007:179 (noted).

Callinispa Uhmann. L. Medvedev 2003:152 (lapsus calami, noted).

Callanispa rasa Uhmann 1959b Callanispa rasa Uhmann 1959b:230 (type: South Africa, Springmount, BMNH). Uhmann

1964a:470 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:386 (types); Staines 1997b:413 (Uhmann species list), 2011:1 (noted).

Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Cassidispa Gestro 1899d Cassidispa Gestro 1899:174. Type species: Cassidispa mirabilis Gestro 1899d, by monotypy.

Donckier 1899:599 (catalog); Weise 1905f:317 (key), 1911a:75 (catalog), 1911b:108 (catalog); Winkler 1929:1354 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:891 (museum list), 1940g:122 (claws), 1947a:130 (noted), 1958e:352 (catalog), 1964a:485 (catalog); Liu 1936:249 (China species); Wu 1937:915 (faunal list); Maulik 1939:148 (noted); Gressitt 1950:135 (China species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:939 (China species); Würmli 1975a:73 (genera); T’an & Yu 1981:518 (faunal list); Minelli 1982:94 (antennae); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); Jolivet 1989b:313 (host plants); Jolivet & Hawkeswood 1995:157 (host plants); Staines 1997b:413 (Uhmann species list); Santiago-Blay 2004:57 (host plants); Chaboo 2007:179 (noted); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog).

Cassidispa bipuncticollis Chen 1941 Cassidispa bipuncticollis Chen 1941:196 (type: China, Kiao-cheu, Shansi, Hoangho-Paiho,

IZAS). Gressitt 1953b:126 (distribution); Uhmann 1958e:352 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:939 (China species); Hua 2002:289 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog). Distribution: China (Hebei, Shansi). Food plant: Betula sp. (Betulaceae) (Hua 2002).

Cassidispa fermoralis Chen & Yu 1976 Cassidispa fermoralis Chen & Yu 1976:218 (type: Tibet, Chayu, IZAS). T’an & Yu 1981:518

(faunal list); Hua 2002:289 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog). Distribution: China (Xizang). Food plant: Unknown.


Cassidispa granulosa Weise 1911d Cassidispa granulosa Weise 1911d:173 (type: Angola, Bailundo, ZMHB). Weise 1911a:75

(catalog), 1911b:108 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:891 (museum list), 1947a:133 (types), 1958e:352 (catalog)

Distribution: Angola. Food plant: Unknown.

Cassidispa maderi Uhmann 1938f Cassidispa maderi Uhmann 1938f:225 (type: China, Yunnan, DEI). Uhmann 1947a:133 (type),

1958e:352 (catalog); Gressitt 1950:135 (China species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:939 (China species); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:380 (types); Staines 1997b:413 (noted); Hua 2002:289 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog). Distribution: China (Yunnan).

Food plant: Unknown. Cassidispa mirabilis Gestro 1899d Cassidispa mirabilis Gestro 1899d:175 (type: China, Ta-tsien-lu, MCSN). Donckier 1899:599

(catalog); Weise 1911a:75 (catalog), 1911b:108 (catalog); Winkler 1929:1354 (catalog); Liu 1936:254 (China species); Wu 1937:915 (faunal list); Uhmann 1947a:133 (type), 1958e:352 (catalog); Gressitt 1950:136 (China species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:939 (China species); Hua 2002:289 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog). Distribution: China (Hebei, Shanxi, Sikang). Food plant: Unknown.

Cassidispa reducta Uhmann 1931g Cassidispa reducta Uhmann 1931g:164 (type: Congo, Kapiri; Nieuwdorp; Elizabethville,

MRAC). Uhmann 1947a:133 (type), 1958e:352 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:386 (types); Würmli 1976e:367 (noted); Staines 1997b:413 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Congo. Food plant: Unknown.

Cassidispa relicta L. Medvedev 1957 Cassidispa relicta L. Medvedev 1957:295 (type: Russia, Vladivostock, Gold Horn, Medvedev).

Uhmann 1964a:485 (catalog); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog). Distribution: Russia. Food plant: Unknown.

Cassidispa simplex Uhmann 1931g Cassidispa simplex Uhmann 1931g:163 (type: Congo, Elisabethville; Kapiri; MRAC). Uhmann

1935i:177 (faunal list), 1947b:130 (type), 1956f:343 (catalog), 1958e:352 (catalog); Staines 1997b:413 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Angola, Congo, Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown.


Chrysispa Weise 1897 Chrysispa Weise 1897:139. Type species: Hispa viridicyanea Kraatz 1895, designated by

Uhmann 1945-1948. Gestro 1905b:552 (catalog); Würmli 1975a:72 (new status), 1976i:514 (revision); Medler 1980:262 (faunal list); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); Jolivet 1989b:313 (host plants); Jolivet & Hawkeswood 1995:156 (host plants); Santiago-Blay 2004:59 (host plants); Chaboo 2007:179 (noted); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog).

Hispa (Chrysispa) Weise. Weise 1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:103 (redescription); Uhmann 19451948:183 (type species), 1954f:62 (faunal list).

Dicladispa (Chrysispa) Weise. Gestro 1914:293 (faunal list); Uhmann 1954f:62 (faunal list), 1954h:192 (West Africa species), 1958e:340 (catalog), 1960d:386 (distribution), 1961a:58 (faunal list), 1964a:483 (catalog); Monrós 1959:32 (illustration).

Chrysispa acanthina (Reiche 1850) Hispa acanthina Reiche 1850:398 (type: Abyssinia, depository unknown). Gemminger & Harold

1876:3617 (catalog); Donckier 1899:601 (catalog). Chrysispa acanthina (Reiche). Gestro 1904a:174 (faunal list), 1905b:552 (catalog); Würmli

1976i:524 (revision); L. Medvedev 1997:324 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog).

Hispa (Chrysispa) acanthina Reiche. Weise 1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog), 1915:163 (faunal list); Uhmann 1927b:62 (noted), 1930g:85 (noted), 1931i:875 (noted), 1936a:450 (faunal list), 1942a:31 (faunal list), 1945-1948:183 (noted).

Dicladispa (Chrysispa) acanthina (Reiche). Gestro 1914:293 (faunal list); Uhmann 1953b:37 (distribution), 1954f:63 (faunal list), 1954h:192 (West Africa species), 1955c:245 (distribution), 1958e:340 (catalog), 1961a:58 (distribution), 1964a:483 (catalog).

Hispa (Chrysispa) squarrosa Weise 1901:231 (type: Angola?, ZMHB). Weise 1911a:73 (synonymy), 1911b:103 (synonymy).

Chrysispa squarrosa Weise. Gestro 1905b:552 (catalog). Distribution: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Togo. Food plant: Unknown.

Chrysispa natalica (Péringuey 1898) Hispa natalica Péringuey 1898:125 (type: South Africa, Natal, Maritzburg, SAMC). Donckier

1899:608 (catalog); Weise 1901:240 (noted), 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b; 104 (catalog). Dicladispa natalica (Péringuey). Gestro 1905b:554 (catalog); Uhmann 1954f:85 (faunal list),

1956f:342 (catalog), 1958e:332 (catalog), 1960d:379 (key), 1964a:481 (catalog). Chrysispa natalica (Péringuey). Würmli 1976i:524 (revision). Chrysispa fera Weise 1901:232 (type: Congo, Sassa, ZMHB). Gestro 1905b:552 (catalog);

Weise 1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog); Uhmann 1945-1948:184 (noted). Hispa (Chrysispa) fera Weise. Uhmann 1927b:62 (noted), 1930g:86 (noted), 1931c:6 (noted),

1931i:876 (noted), 1934b:393 (museum list), 1936a:450 (faunal list), 1937g:377 (museum list).


Dicladispa (Chrysispa) fera (Weise). Uhmann 1953b:37 (distribution), 1954f:63 (faunal list), 1954h:192 (West Africa species), 1954l:1114 (museum list), 1956f:342 (catalog), 1957e:342 (faunal list), 1957j:124 (faunal list), 1958e:341 (catalog), 1961a:59 (distribution), 1964a:482 (catalog), 1966a:24 (synonymy).

Chrysispa fera (Weise). Medler 1980:262 (faunal list). Hispa formosa Achard 1917:70 (not Gestro) (type: Fort Carmpel, NMPC). Uhmann 1936:450

(synonymy); Gomes Alves 1951:187 (distribution). Hispa chatanayi Achard 1921:61 (replacement name for Hispa formosa Achard). Hispa quadrifida var. Chapuis 1877:52 (misidentification); Weise 1897:128 (identification);

Uhmann 1931:6 (nomenclature). Distribution: Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Guinea, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown.

Chrysispa paucispina Weise 1897 Chrysispa paucispina Weise 1897:139 (type: Africa Meridionalis, ZMHB). Weise 1897:146

(noted), 1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog); Gestro 1905b:552 (catalog); Uhmann 1928g:90 (key), 1945-1948:183 (noted).

Hispa paucispina Weise. Donckier 1899:609 (catalog). Hispa (Chrysispa) paucispina Weise. Uhmann 1927b:62 (noted), 1930g:86 (noted), 1931i:876

(noted), 1936a:450 (faunal list), 1937g:377 (museum list). Dicladispa (Chrysispa) paucispina Weise. Uhmann 1953b:37 (distribution), 1954f:64 (faunal

list), 1954h:192 (key), 1954l:1114 (museum list), 1955c:245 (distribution), 1956i:391 (museum list), 1957j:124 (faunal list), 1958e:341 (catalog), 1961a:59 (distribution), 1964a:482 (catalog); Descamps 1956:752 (host plant).

Chrysispa paucispina Weise. Uhmann 1945-1948:180 (sculpture); Medler 1980:262 (faunal list).

Dicladispa paucispina (Weise). Grist & Lever 1969:227 (noted); Heinrichs et al. 1997:292 (noted); Heinrichs & Barrion 2004:64 (pest status).

Distribution: Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Nigeria, Rwanda, Togo. Food plant: Oryza sativa L. (Poaceae) (Descamps 1956).

Chrysispa viridiaenea (Guérin-Méneville 1841)

Hispa viridiaenea Guérin-Méneville 1841:8 (type: Senegal, NMNH?). Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Donckier 1899:612 (catalog); Gomes Alves 1949:115 (distribution); Uhmann 1966d:279 (noted).

Hispa (Chrysispa) viridiaenea Guérin-Méneville. Weise 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog); Uhmann 1927b:62 (noted).

Dicladispa (Chrysispa) viridiaenea (Guérin-Méneville). Uhmann 1953b:39 (key), 1954h:192 (West Africa species), 1958e:342 (catalog), 1969:299 (faunal list).

Chrysispa viridiaenea (Guérin-Méneville). Weise 1897:139 (noted), 1903:61 (faunal list); Gestro 1905b:552 (catalog); Würmli 1976i:525 (revision).

Distribution: Guinea-Bissau, Senegal. Food plant: Unknown.


Chrysispa viridicyanea (Kraatz 1895) Hispa viridicyanea Kraatz 1895:270 (type: West Africa, DEI). Donckier 1899:612 (catalog);

Collart 1934:250 (host plant); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:394 (types); Santiago-Blay 2004:65 (host plants).

Hispa (Chrysispa) viridicyanea Kraatz. Weise 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog), 1915: 182 (faunal list); Uhmann 1927b:62 (noted), 1930g:86 (noted), 1931c:6 (noted), 1931i:876 (noted), 1936a:450 (faunal list), 1937g:377 (museum list), 1945-1948:183 (sculpture); Collart 1934:250 (host plant); Risbec 1950a:383 (host plants).

Chrysispa viridicyanea (Kraatz). Weise 1897:139 (noted), 1901:232 (noted); Gestro 1905b:552 (catalog); Würmli 1976i:525 (revision).

Dicladispa viridicyanea (Kraatz). Grist & Lever 1969:226 (biology); Barrion & Litsinger 1994: 176 (key); Heinrichs et al. 1997:292 (noted); Banwo et al. 2004:31 (distribution).

Dicladispa (Chrysispa) viridicyanea (Kraatz). Uhmann 1953b:37 (noted), 1954h:192 (West Africa species), 1958e:342 (catalog), 1960d:386 (noted), 1961a:60 (host plant), 1964a:483 (catalog); Bakker 1971:201 (pest status); Abo & Sy 1997:122 (pest status); Kouassi et al. 2005:126 (pest status).

Chrysispa viridicyanea Weise. Heinrichs & Barrion 2004:64 (misattribution, pest status). Dicladispa viridicyanea (Kraatz). Heinrichs & Barrion 2004:64 (pest status). Hispa (Chrysispa) horni Uhmann 1927b:61 (type: German Southwest Africa, Caprivizipfel,

DEI). Uhmann 1949b:682 (type); Würmli 1976i:525 (synonymy); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Chrysispa horni Uhmann. Uhmann 1945-1948:180 (sculpture). Dicladispa (Chrysispa) horni (Uhmann). Uhmann 1953b:39 (key), 1956f:342 (catalog),

1957j:124 (faunal list), 1958e:341 (catalog). Hispa horni Uhmann. Gaedike & Döbler 1971:375 (types).

Distribution: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda. Food plants: Vossia sp. (Collart 1934); Oryza sativa L., other grasses (Hargreaves 1937) (Poaceae).

Dactylispa Weise 1897 Dactylispa Weise 1897:137. Type species: Hispa andrewesi Weise (=Hispa severini Gestro

1897), by Maulik 1919. Gestro 1899(1901):329 (nomenclature), 1901b:439 (key), 1905b:521 (faunal list), 1909b:256 (Madagascar species), 1914:282 (faunal list), 1917:426 (faunal list), 1920:396 (faunal list); Weise 1897:145 (key), 1899:265 (noted), 1905f:317 (key), 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911b:95 (catalog), 1911b:95 (redescription); Péringuey 1908:336 (South Africa species); Maulik 1915:379 (museum list), 1916:575 (museum list), 1919:170 (India species), 1939:147 (noted); Schultze 1916:101 (faunal list); Handlirsch 1925:666 (classification); Menzel 1923:55 (noted); Collart 1928:341 (host plant); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Uhmann 1931g:154 (key), 1932i:855 (museum list), 1936a:446 (key), 1940g:122 (claws), 1942a:13 (faunal list), 1953i:4 (key), 1954b:1 (key), 1954f:35, 59 (faunal list), 1954h:184 (key), 1955h:148 (Africa species),


1956a:62 (key), 1956i:387 (noted), 1958e:278 (catalog), 1960b:64 (nomenclature), 1960e:260 (faunal list), 1961a:34 (faunal list), 1964a:470 (catalog); Chûjô 1933:322 (Taiwan species); Liu 1936:250 (China species); Wu 1937:914 (faunal list); Gressitt 1938:326 (faunal list), 1939a:173 (distribution), 1939b:201 (distribution), 1950:105 (China species), 1957b:314 (South Pacific species), 1959a:72 (host plants), 1960a:90 (New Guinea species), 1960b:707 (New Guinea species), 1961:83 (host plants), 1982:711 (ecology); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:504 (types); Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list); Chûjô & Kimoto 1961:193 (Japan species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:920 (China species); Kimoto 1966:636 (Japan species); Würmli 1975a:62 genera); Nayar et al. 1976:353 (noted); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list); T’an & Yu 1981:517 (faunal list); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:164 (catalog); Anand 1984:11 (noted), 1997:5 (morphology); An et al. 1985:3 (Korea species); Chen et al. 1986:233 (China species); Jolivet 1989b:311 (host plants), 1997b:98 (noted); Kimoto 1987:29 (Japanese species); Cox 1994b:449 (parasites); Kimoto & Takizawa 1994:244 (Japan species); Silfverberg 1985:270 (noted); T’an 1993:381 (faunal list); Jolivet & Hawkeswood 1995:155 (host plants); van Aarde et al. 1996:345 (host plants); Kimoto & Chu 1996:130 (faunal list); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list), 2004a:315 (host plants), 2005:48 (Spaeth species list); Jäch 1998:37 (noted); Basu 1999:178 (distribution); Kimoto 1999:127 (southeast Asia species), 2005:101 (faunal list); Wagner 1999:270 (faunal list); Steiner 2001:61 (host plants); Jolivet & Verma 2002:62 (noted); Mohamedsaid 2004:179 (Malaysian species); Santiago-Blay 2004:62 (host plants); Medvedev & SprecherUebersax 2005:334 (Nepal species); Ballentes et al. 2006:53 (faunal list); Chaboo 2007:115 (noted); Lit & Caasi-Lit 2009:107 (host plant); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog); Liao et al. 2015:162 (host plants).

Hispa Chapuis 1875:333 (not Linnaeus). Péringuey 1898:118 (faunal list); Alluaud 1900:328 (faunal list).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) Weise 1897:150. Type species: Hispa platyprioides Gestro, designated by Gestro 1902b. Gestro 1898c:712 (noted), 1902a:59 (noted), 1909d:561 (catalog); Weise 1911a:63 (synonymy), 1911b:98 (catalog); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Uhmann 1954b:2 (noted); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog).

Dactylispa (Triplispa). Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list). Dactylispa (Platypriella) Chen & T’an 1961:459. Type species: Hispa exicisa Kraatz, by original

designation. Gressitt & Kimoto 1963b:931 (noted); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog).

Dicladispa Anand 1997:9 (not Weise). Dactylispa abareata Uhmann 1955c Dactylispa abareata Uhmann 1955c:249 (type: Rwanda, Kagogo, MRAC). Uhmann 1955h:167

(Africa species), 1958e:279 (catalog); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Rwanda. Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa aculeata (Klug 1835) Hispa aculeata Klug 1835:47 (type: Guinea, ZHMB). Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617

(catalog); Duvivier 1892b:379 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:601 (catalog). Dactylispa aculeata (Klug). Weise 1897:150 (noted), 1905g:103 (comparative note), 1911a:63

(catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Gestro 1905b:551 (catalog); Uhmann 1931g:150 (noted), 1931i:871 (noted), 1936a:448 (faunal list), 1937g:377 (museum list), 1938d:424 (noted), 1953b:21 (distribution), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1954h:190 (West Africa species), 1954l:1114 (museum list), 1955h:175 (Africa species), 1956g:79 (faunal list), 1957f:305 (museum list), 1958e:279 (catalog), 1961a:34 (distribution), 1964a:470 (catalog), 1966b:216 (faunal list), 1967c:257 (faunal list), 1968a:363 (faunal list); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:60 (host plants).

Hispa laticollis Chapuis 1877:57 (type: Africa Occid., ISNB?). Donckier 1899:606 (catalog). Dactylispa laticollis Chapuis. Gestro 1905b:535 (faunal list); Weise 1897:150 (noted), 1903:61

(faunal list), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Uhmann 1931c:5 (synonymy), 1931g:151 (synonymy).

Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria. Food plant: Theobroma cacao L. (Sterculiaceae) (Uhmann 1968a). Dactylispa aeneicolor (Fairmaire 1869) Hispa aeneicolor Fairmaire 1869:259 (type: Madagascar, MNHN?). Gemminger & Harold

1876:3617 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:55 (noted); Donckier 1899:601 (catalog); Alluaud 1900:328 (faunal list).

Dactylispa aeneicolor (Fairmaire). Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:63 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Gestro 1909b:275 (Madagascar species); Uhmann 1958e:280 (catalog).

Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa aeneipennis (Duvivier 1891) Hispa aeneipennis Duvivier 1891:ccclxcii (type: Madagascar, MNHN?). Donckier 1899:601

(catalog); Alluaud 1900:329 (faunal list). Dactylispa aeneipennis (Duvivier). Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:63

(catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog), 1922b:80 (noted); Gestro 1909b:257 (Madagascar species); Uhmann 1931i:873 (noted), 1954i:53 (noted), 1958e:280 (catalog), 1960b:65

(redescription), 1960e:260 (faunal list), 1964a:470 (catalog), 1964c:170 (faunal list). Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa agilis Gestro 1923 Dactylispa agilis Gestro 1923:11 (type: India, Bengal, Kurseong, MCSN). Uhmann 1958e:280

(catalog). Distribution: India (Bengal). Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa albopilosa (Gestro 1888b) Hispa albopilosa Gestro 1888b:181 (type: Burma, Thagata, MCSN). Baly 1888a:663 (faunal

list); Gestro 1890:254 (distribution); Donckier 1899:601 (catalog). Dactylispa albopilosa (Gestro). Weise 1897:131 (faunal list), 1911a:63 (catalog), 1911b:97

(catalog); Maulik 1919:221 (India species); De & Konar 1954:197 (host plant); Uhmann 1958e:280 (catalog); Würmli 1976c:306 (noted); Gruev 1985:43 (faunal list); Zaka-Ur-Rab 1991:22 (biology); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:343 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:60 (host plants); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:487 (faunal list).

Dicladispa albopilosa (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Hispa discicollis Gestro 1890:254 (type: Burma, Pegu, Palon, MCSN). Donckier 1899:604

(catalog); Gestro 1901b:437 (noted); Würmli 1976c:306 (synonymy). Dactylispa discicollis (Gestro). Weise 1897:135 (noted), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog);

Maulik 1919:222 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:290 (catalog). Dicladispa discicollis (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Hispa maculata Gestro 1890:252 (type: Burma, MCSN). Donckier 1899:607 (catalog); Gestro

1901b:437 (noted); Würmli 1976:306 (synonymy). Dactylispa maculata (Gestro). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Maulik 1919:222 (India species); Uhmann 1954b:23 (key), 1958e:299 (catalog);

Würmli 1976c:306 (noted); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list). Dicladispa maculata (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa soror Weise 1897:134 (type: India, Belgaum; Kanara, BMNH, ZMHB). Weise

1905b:120 (faunal list), 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Maulik 1916:576 (museum list), 1919:224 (India species); Gestro 1920:397 (faunal list); Risbec 1950a:391 (host plants); Uhmann 1954b:23 (key), 1958e:314 (catalog), 1964d:737 (museum list); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:98 (Bangladesh species); Würmli 1975b:372 (faunal list), 1976:306 (synonymy); Anand 1984:11 (noted); L. Medvedev 1992a:34 (faunal list); Basu 1999:184 (distribution); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:345 (faunal list); Hartmann & Medvedev 2003:179 (faunal list); Kimoto 2005:103 (faunal list).

Hispa soror (Weise). Donckier 1899:611 (catalog). Dicladispa soror (Weise). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa kamarupa Maulik 1919:223 (type: India, Assam, Mazbat, NZSI?). Maulik 1937:154

(host plant); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:98 (Bangladesh species); Würmli 1976c:306 (synonymy); Basu 1999:184 (distribution); Santiago-Blay 2004:61 (host plants).

Dactylispa maculata kamarupa (Maulik). Uhmann 1949b:670 (distribution), 1954n:516 (distribution), 1954f:23 (distribution).

Dicladispa kamarupa (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Bangladesh, India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal), Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka. Food plants: Palm tree (Arecaceae), Prunus sp. (Roseacae), Guaiacum sp. (Zygophyllaceae) (Maulik 1919); Zea mays L. (Risbec 1950a); Andropogon sorghum (L.) Brotero (De & Konar 1954); Sorghum vulgare Pers. (Zaka-Ur-Rab 1991).


Dactylispa amala Basu & Saha 1977 Dactylispa amala Basu & Saha 1977:381 (type: India, West Bengal, Tarkhola, ZSI). Basu

1999:186 (distribution); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog). Distribution: India (West Bengal). Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa ambarum Weise 1909 Dactylispa ambarum Weise 1909:114 (type: Madagascar, Mont d’Ambre, ZMHB). Weise

1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:63 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:280 (catalog), 1960b:74 (redescription), 1960e:260 (faunal list), 1964a:470 (catalog).


Dactylispa ambigua (Péringuey 1898) Hispa ambigua Péringuey 1898:124 (type: South Africa, Transvaal, Klerksdorp, SAMC).

Donckier 1899:602 (catalog). Dactylispa ambigua (Péringuey). Weise 1901:240 (transfer), 1910c:243 (faunal list), 1911a:63

(catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Gestro 1905b:550 (catalog); Uhmann 1931g:82 museum list), 1931i:868 (noted), 1942a:28 (key), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955g:457 (museum list), 1955h:172 (Africa species), 1956f:337 (museum list), 1958e:280 (catalog), 1958f:490 (distribution), 1962b:360 (faunal list), 1963b:473 (museum list), 1964a:471 (catalog).

Dactylispa discreta (Weise). Uhmann 1938d:424 (misidentification, museum list). Uhmann 1954f:40 (synonymy).

Distribution: Congo, Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa andamanensis Maulik 1919 Dactylispa andamanensis Maulik 1919:229 (type: Andaman Islands, BMNH). Uhmann

1958e:280 (catalog). Dicladispa andamanensis (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: India (Andaman Islands). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa andreaei Uhmann 1955h Dactylispa andreaei Uhmann 1955h:175 (type: S. Rhodesia, Mashunaland, Salisbury, MRAC?).

Uhmann 1958e:280 (catalog), 1958a:226 (faunal list), 1964a:471 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:364 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa andrewesiella Weise 1905b Dactylispa andrewesiella Weise 1905b:118 (type: India, Nilgiri Hills, ZMBH, BMNH). Weise

1911a:63 (catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog); Maulik 1919:226 (India species); Uhmann 1954b:33 (key), 1958e:280 (catalog); Basu 1999:185 (distribution).

Dicladispa andrewesiella (Weise). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: India (Tamil Nadu). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa angulosa (Solsky 1871) Hispa angulosa Solsky 1871:262 (type: Amur, depository unknown). Gemminger & Harold

1876:3617 (catalog); Schönfeldt 1887:156 (Japan species); Fairmaire 1888:157 (faunal list); Gestro 1901b:437 (noted); Matsumura 1907:26; Yokoyama 1930:25.

Dactylispa angulosa (Solsky). Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1911a:63 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog); Doi 1927:334 (distribution); Reitter 1927:34 (Palearctic species); Uhmann 1928c:35 (noted), 1940h:128 (noted), 1949a:7 (key), 1954a:194 (faunal list), 1954b:32 (key), 1958e:280 (catalog), 1964a:471 (catalog); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Matsumura 1931:79, 115 (faunal list), 1931:234 (faunal list); Yuasa 1932:588 (faunal list); Chûjô 1933:328 (Taiwan species), 1940:121 (faunal list), 1941:232 (distribution), 1956b:23 (faunal list), 1958:10 (faunal list); Shirôzu 1934:58 (faunal list); Liu 1936:253 (China species); Wu 1937:914 (faunal list); Esaki et al. 1939:298 (faunal list); Gressitt 1939c:137 (distribution), 1950:111 (China species); Yuasa 1950:1208 (faunal list); Gyotoku 1954:38 (host plant); Kalshoven 1957:13 (host plant); L. Medvedev 1957:294 (Russian species), 1968:82 (larva); Shirôzu & Kimoto 1957:65 (faunal list); Chûjô & Kimoto 1961:193 (Japan species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:924 (China species); Nakane et al. 1963:347 (faunal list); Yano 1965:129 (larva); Kimoto 1966:637 (Japan species), 1976:172 (faunal list), 1987:29 (Japanese species); Ohno 1968:32 (faunal list); Kimoto & Hiura 1971:24 (museum list); Würmli 1976c:301 (noted); Suzuki & Hara 1976:23 (egg); Gruev 1978:58 (faunal list), 1980a:37 (faunal list); An et al. 1985:4 (Korea species); Suzuki 1989:63 (noted); T’an & Yu 1992:607 (faunal list); Cox 1994c:493 (diapause); Kimoto & Takizawa 1994:344 (Japan species); Takizawa 1994:523 (biology); Mariau 1999:232 (noted), 2001:131 (noted); Ding et al. 2000:228 (host plants), 2004:491 (host plant); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:60 (host plants); Byun 2006:89 (faunal list); Kim et al. 2006:133 (faunal list); Sun et al. 2006:27 (host plant).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) angulosa angulosa (Solsky). Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list). Dactylispa (Triplispa) angulosa (Solsky). T’an 1993:381 (faunal list); T’an & Yu 1993:353

(faunal list); Zhang et al. 2001:70 (morphology); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog).

Hispa japonica Baly 1874:215 (type: Japan, BMNH). Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Gorham 1885:286 (faunal list); Lewis 1888:94 (synonymy); Donckier 1899:606 (catalog); Gestro 1901b:437 (noted); Chûjô 1933:328 (synonymy); Staines & Staines 1999:526 (Baly species list).

Dactylispa angulosa japonica (Baly). Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog).


Dactylispa masonii Gestro 1923:9 (type: China, Hangchow, MCSN). Liu 1936:254 (China species); Wu 1937:915 (faunal list); Uhmann 1940h:127 (noted), 1949a:8 (key), 1954b:32 (key), 1958e:301 (catalog), 1964a:474 (catalog); Gressitt 1950:123 (China species); Chûjô 1958:10 (faunal list), 1959:21 (faunal list); Chûjô & Kimoto 1961:194 (Japan species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:929 (China species); Nakane et al. 1963:347 (faunal list); Kimoto 1966:638 (Japan species), 1976:172 (faunal list), 1987:29 (Japanese species); Kimoto & Kawase 1966:47 (distribution); Kimoto & Hiura 1971:24 (museum list); Suzuki 1974:7 (ovariole), 1978:13 (noted); Suzuki & Hara 1975:92 (ovariole number), 1976:23 (egg); Würmli 1976c:302 (synonymy); An et al. 1985:6 (Korea species); Kimoto & Takizawa 1994:344 (Japan species); Takizawa 1994:518 (biology); Mohamedsaid 2000b:375 (distribution); Santiago-Blay 2004:61 (host plants); Mizukoshi et al. 2011:158 (biology).

Dactylispa masoni Gestro (sic). Winkler 1929:1353 (lapsus calami, catalog); Ohno 1969:31 (faunal list).

Dactylispa masonii var. Uhmann 1940h:127 (noted); 1954b:32 (key). Dactylispa ussurina Uhmann 1928c:35 (type: Russia, Siberia, Ussuri, Sutschan, DEI). Winkler

1929:1353 (catalog); Uhmann 1949a:8 (synonymy); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:393 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Dactylispa angulosa (Solsky). Matsumura 1939:79 (misidentification), 1939:115 (correction). Dactylispa angulosa (Solsky). Yuasa 1932:588 (misidentification), 1950:1208 (correction). Dactylispa flavomarginata Shirôzu 1956a:53 (type: Japan, KUEC, Sobosan, KUEC). Shirôzu &

Kimoto 1957:65 (faunal list). Dactylispa masonii flavomarginata Shirôzu. Uhmann 1957:62 (status). Dactylispa rufescens Shirôzu 1957:55 (type: China, Manchuria, KUEC). Gressitt & Kimoto

1965:804 (noted). Distribution: China (Anhwei, Chekiang, Fukien, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Heilonjiang, Hopei, Hunan, Kweichow, Manchuria, Shensi, Szechuan, Yunnan, Zheijang), Japan, Korea, Russia (Siberia), Taiwan. Food plants: Filipendula palmata Maxim., F. multifuga Maxim. (Roseacae), Isodon inflexus (Thunb.) Kudo, Prunella vulgaris lilacina Nakai (Lamiaceae) (Gressitt 1950); Prunus sp., Rosa sp. (Roseacae), Quercus acutissima Carr., Q. myrsinaefolia Bl. (Fagaceae) (An et al. 1985); Quercus serrata Thunb. (Fagaceae) (Takizawa 1994); Bambusa sp. (Poaceae), Cyclobalanopsis glauca Oerst., Quercus sp. (Fagaceae), Malus sylvestris Mill. (Roseacae), Prunella asiatica Nakai (Lamiaceae), Xylosma sp. (Flacourtiaceae) (Hua 2002), Polygonum perfoliatum L. (Polygonaceae) (Ding et al. 2000); Pueraria montana var. lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S. Almeida (Fabaceae) (Sun et al. 2006); Petasites japonicus (Sieb. & Zucc.) Maxim, unidentified Composite (Shirôzu. 1957) (Asteraceae); Betula platyphylla Sukaczey (Betulaceae) (Mizukoshi et al. 2011).

Dactylispa angusta Gestro 1917 Dactylispa angusta Gestro 1917:433 (type: Philippines, Luzon, Los Banos, MCSN). Gestro

1922:104 (faunal list); Uhmann 1933a:73 (faunal list), 1954b:33 (key), 1958e:281 (catalog), 1964(1965):250 (faunal list); L. Medvedev 1995:19 (distribution).

Dactylispa angusta dansalana Uhmann 1964(1965):250 (type: Mindanao, Dansalan, DEI).


Würmli 1976c:302 (noted); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Philippines (Basilan, Leyte, Luzon, Mindanao). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa anula Maulik 1919 Dactylispa anula Maulik 1919:243 (type: India, Assam, Patkai Hills, BMNH). Uhmann

1958e:281 (catalog); Kimoto & Takizawa 1981:65 (faunal list); L. Medvedev 1992a:35 (faunal list); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:343 (faunal list); Kimoto 2005:101 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:487 (faunal list).

Dicladispa anula (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: India (Assam), Nepal. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa apicata (Fairmaire 1869) Hispa apicata Fairmaire 1869:258 (type: Madagascar, MNHN?). Gemminger & Harold 1876:

3617 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:57 (noted); Donckier 1899:602 (catalog); Alluaud 1900:329 (faunal list).

Dactylispa apicata (Fairmaire). Gestro 1909b:284 (Madagascar species); Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:63 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:281 (catalog).


Dactylispa approximata Gressitt 1939b Dactylispa approximata Gressitt 1939b:201 (type: China, SW Fukien, Tai-yong, USNM).

Gressitt 1950:111 (China species), 1953b:125 (distribution); Uhmann 1954a:206 (noted), 1958e:281 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:925 (China species); T’an & Yu 1981:517 (faunal list); Staines & Staines 1997:3 (types); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog); Dai et al. 2012:125 (biology). Distribution: China (Fukien, Guangdong, Guangxi, Kwangtung, Sichuan, Xizang). Food plants: Grasses (Hua 2002); Lophatherum gracile Brongn. (Dai et al. 2012) (Poaceae).

Dactylispa argus Gestro 1909b Dactylispa argus Gestro 1909b:128 (type: Madagascar, Androy, MCSN). Weise 1910d:502

(faunal list), 1911a:63 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:872 (noted), 1958e:281 (catalog), 1960b:86 (redescription), 1964a:471 (catalog).


Dactylispa aspersa (Gestro 1897) Hispa aspersa Gestro 1897b:85 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Malacca, NMNH).


Hispa aspera Gestro (sic). Donckier 1899:602 (lapsus calami, catalog). Dactylispa aspersa (Gestro). Weise 1911a:63 (catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog), 1922b:78 (noted),

1924:83 (distribution); Uhmann 1928b:61 (faunal list), 1930b:1 (key), 1934d:3 (noted), 1935g:149 (faunal list), 1938d:427 (distribution), 1945-1948:179 (sculpture), 1949b: 671 (distribution), 1954b:31 (key), 1958e:281 (catalog), 1960c:24 (faunal list), 1961c: 509 (noted), 1964a:471 (catalog), 1964(1965):257 (faunal list); Gressitt 1957b:317 (South Pacific species); Mohamedsaid 2004:179 (Malaysian species); Santiago-Blay 2004:60 (host plants).

Dactylispa aspera (Gestro) (sic). Uhmann 1933:73 (lapsus calami, faunal list); Kalshoven 1957:12 (host plant).

Dactylispa aspersa matangensis Weise 1922b:82 (type: Sarawak, Matang; Oya; NHRS). Uhmann 1930b:1 (key), 1954b:31 (key), 1958e:282 (catalog).

Distribution: Indonesia (Celebes, Java, Sumatra), Malaysia, Philippines (Negros). Food plant: Gardenia augusta Merrill (Rubiaceae) (Kalshoven 1957).

Dactylispa assamensis Weise 1904b Dactylispa assamensis Weise 1904b:451 (type: India, Assam, Khasia Hills, ZMHB). Weise

1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog); Maulik 1919:178 (India species); Uhmann 1954b:20 (key), 1958e:282 (catalog), 1964d:736 (museum list); Würmli 1976c:304 (noted).

Distribution: India (Assam). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa atkinsoni (Gestro 1897b) Hispa atkinsoni Gestro 1897b:132 (type: India, Sikkim, Mungphu, MCSN). Donckier 1899:602

(catalog); Gestro 1901b:437 (noted). Dactylispa atkinsoni (Gestro). Weise 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Maulik 1919:205

(India species); Uhmann 1954b:24 (key), 1958e:282 (catalog), 1963b:151 (museum list); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:97 (Bangladesh species); Vazirani 1972:144 (faunal list); Würmli 1975b:371 (faunal list), 1976c:311 (noted); Kacker 1976:49 (chromosomes); T’an & Yu 1981:517 (faunal list); Petitpierre et al. 1988:179 (chromosomes); Takizawa 1989:326 (faunal list); L. Medvedev 1990:44 (faunal list); Basu 1999:182 (distribution); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:344 (faunal list); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Kimoto 2005:101 (faunal list); Julio et al. 2010:30 (noted); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:488 (faunal list). Dicladispa atkinsoni (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology); Hua 2002:292 (faunal list).

Dactylispa malaisei Uhmann 1939a:5 (type: Burma, Kambaiti, NHRS). Uhmann 1948d:1 (type), 1954b:24 (key), 1958e:300 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:380 (types); Würmli 1975b:373 (synonymy); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Distribution: Bangladesh, Bhutan, China (Yunnan, Xizang), India (Punjab, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal), Myanmar, Nepal. Food plant: Curculigo sp. (Hypoxidaceae) (Hua 2002).


Dactylispa atricornis Chen & T’an 1964 Dactylispa (Triplispa) atricornis Chen & T’an 1964:417 (type: Vietnam, IZAS). Gressitt &

Kimoto 1965:804 (noted); Chen et al. 1986:291 (distribution); Yang & Sun 1991:59 (types); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list).

Distribution: China (Yunnan), Vietnam. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa aureopilosa Uhmann 1930f Dactylispa aureopilosa Uhmann 1930f:167 (type: German East Africa, Amani, ZMHU).

Uhmann 1931i:865 (museum list), 1938d:424 (noted), 1942a:26 (key), 1946a:17 (type), 1949b:678 (noted), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:156 (Africa species), 1958e:282 (catalog), 1958f:490 (distribution), 1964a:471 (catalog); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Tanzania [German East Africa]. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa badia Chen & T’an 1961 Dactylispa (Platypriella) badia Chen & T’an 1961:474 (type: China, Yunnan, IZAS). Gressitt &

Kimoto 1963b:931 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:59 (types); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog). Distribution: China (Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa bakeri (Gestro 1917) Triplispa bakeri Gestro 1917:435 (type: Philippines, Mindanao, Davao, MCSN). Würmli

1976c:302 (distribution). Dactylispa (Triplispa) bakeri (Gestro). Gestro 1922:104 (faunal list). Dactylispa bakeri (Gestro). Uhmann 1933a:73 (faunal list), 1935g:149 (faunal list), 1945-

1948:179 (sculpture), 1954b:17 (noted), 1958e:282 (catalog), 1964(1965):250 (faunal list); Kalshoven 1957:12 (host plant); Santiago-Blay 2004:60 (host plants).

Distribution: Indonesia (Java), Philippines (Mindanao, Palawan). Food plant: Saccharum spontaneum L. (Poaceae) (Uhmann 1935).

Dactylispa balianii Gestro 1909b Dactylispa balianii Gestro 1909b:285 (type: Madagascar, Baja d’Antongil, NMHN). Weise

1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:282 (catalog); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:504 (types).



Dactylispa basalis (Gestro 1897b) Hispa basalis Gestro 1897b:86 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Luglio, MCSN). Donckier 1899:602

(catalog). Dactylispa basalis (Gestro). Weise 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Uhmann 1928f:397

(faunal list), 1958e:283 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:383 (catalog). Distribution: China (Yunnan), Indonesia (Sumatra). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa basicornis Weise 1909 Dactylispa basicornis Weise 1909:117 (type: Madagascar, Mont d’Ambre, ZMHB). Weise

1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:873 (noted), 1958e:283 (catalog), 1960b:77 (redescription), 1964a:471 (catalog).


Dactylispa bayonii Gestro 1911b Dactylispa bayonii Gestro 1911:29 (type: Uganda, Bussu, ZMHB). Weise 1911a:64 (catalog),

1911b:99 (catalog); Gestro 1914:284 (faunal list); Uhmann 1931i:864 (noted), 1936a:445 (faunal list), 1942a:14 (faunal list), 1953b:21 (distribution), 1954f:36 (faunal list), 1955c:243 (distribution), 1955h:171 (Africa species), 1957e:337 (faunal list), 1958e: 283 (catalog), 1964a:471 (catalog); Barrion & Litsinger 1994:176 (key); Heinrichs et al. 1997:292 (noted); Banwo et al. 2003b:41 (pest status), 2004:31 (distribution); Konaté & Fargette 2003:5 (noted); Heinrichs & Barrion 2004:64 (pest status).

Distribution: Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda. Food plant: Oryza sativa L. (Poaceae) (Barrion & Litsinger 1994).

Dactylispa beccarii (Gestro 1897b) Hispa beccarii Gestro 1897b:92 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Monte Singalang, MCSN). Donckier

1899:602 (catalog). Dactylispa beccarii (Gestro). Weise 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:283

(catalog). Distribution: Indonesia (Sumatra). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa bhaumiki Basu & Saha 1977 Dactylispa bhaumiki Basu & Saha 1977:380 (type: India, West Bengal, Sukia Pokri, ZSI). Basu

1999:186 (distribution); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Distribution: India (West Bengal). Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa binotaticollis Chen & T’an 1964 Dactylispa (Dactylispa) binotaticollis Chen & T’an 1964:415 (type: China, Yunnan, Xi-

shuangban-na, IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto 1965:804 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:60 (types); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Distribution: China (Guangxi, Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa bipartita (Guérin-Méneville 1830) Hispa bipartita Guérin-Méneville 1830:141 (type: Indonesia, Java, MNHN?). Guérin-Méneville

1841:8 (comparative note); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:57 (noted); Gestro 1897b:109 (distribution), 1897c:175 (distribution), 1898d:217 (distribution); Donckier 1899:603 (catalog); Uhmann 1966d:277 (noted).

Dactylispa bipartita (Guérin-Méneville). Weise 1897:150 (distribution), 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog); Gestro 1902b:151 (faunal list), 1909(1910):149 (faunal list), 1917:426 (faunal list), 1919:341, 345 (faunal list), 1922:103 (faunal list); Maulik 1916:575 (museum list); Schultze 1916:101 (faunal list); Uhmann 1929a:149 (faunal list), 1931e:3 (faunal list), 1933a:75 (Philippine species), 1934d:2 (faunal list), 1938c:116 (museum list), 1945-1948:180 (sculpture), 1953h:90 (faunal list), 1954b:22 (key), 1955b:55 (pupa), 1956a:63 (larva), 1958e:283 (catalog), 1960c:17 (faunal list), 1961c:509 (noted), 1964a:471 (catalog), 1964(1965):250 (faunal list); Kalshoven 1957:12 (host plant); Baltazar 1968:221 (faunal list); Maddison 1993:383 (host plant); Reid 1997:42 (faunal list), 1998:300 (faunal list); Mohamedsaid 2000a:358 (faunal list), 2004:179 (Malaysian species); Santiago-Blay 2004:60 (host plants); Lit & Caasi-Lit 2009:106 (host plant). Distribution: Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Nais, Sumatra), Malaysia, Philippines (Luzon, Mindanao, Palawan). Food plants: Saccharum spontaneum L., Bambusa blumeana Schultes (Poaceae) (Schultze 1916); Sterculia sp. (Sterculiaceae) (Uhmann 1929a).

Dactylispa bodongi Uhmann 1930h Dactylispa bodongi Uhmann 1930h:130 (type: Portugese East Africa, Beira, DEI). Uhmann

1931i:859 (noted), 1934b:391 (museum list), 1945-1948:188 (type), 1953b:21 (comparative note), 1953i:4 (key), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:160 (Africa species), 1956f:340 (catalog), 1957e:337 (faunal list), 1958e:284 (catalog), 1961c:504 (comparative note), 1964a:471 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:366 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Dactylispa bodongi haafi Uhmann 1961c:503 (type: South Africa, Transvaal, Skakuza, NMHB). Uhmann 1964a:471 (catalog); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Congo, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa brachyacantha Gestro 1909 Dactylispa brachyacantha Gestro 1909:562 (type: Australia, MCSN). Weise 1911b:98

(catalog); Uhmann 1930b:1 (key), 1955h:157 (Africa species), 1958e:284 (catalog). Distribution: Australia. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa brachycera Gestro 1914 Dactylispa brachycera Gestro 1914:282 (type: Mombasa, MNHN). Uhmann 1954f:59 (faunal

list), 1955h:157 (key), 1958e:284 (catalog). Distribution: British East Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa brevicuspis (Gestro 1890) Hispa brevicuspis Gestro 1890:253 (type: Burma, Monti Carin, MCSN). Donckier 1899:603

(catalog); Gestro 1901b:437 (noted). Dactylispa brevicuspis (Gestro). Weise 1897:136 (faunal list), 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:97

(catalog); Maulik 1919:242 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:284 (catalog). Dicladispa brevicuspis (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Myanmar. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa brevispina Chen & T’an 1964 Dactylispa (Triplispa) brevispina Chen & T’an 1964:417 (type: China, Chekiang, Tein-mushan,

IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto 1965:804 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:59 (types); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog). Distribution: China (Zhejiang). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa brevispinosa (Chapuis 1877) Hispa brevispinosa brevispinosa Chapuis 1877:56 (type: India, ISNB). Gestro 1890:257

(distribution); Duvivier 1892:447 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:603 (catalog). Dactylispa brevispinosa (Chapuis). Weise 1897:133 (faunal list), 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:96

(catalog); Maulik 1919:183 (India species); Uhmann 1954b:24 (key), 1957f:306 (museum list), 1958e:284 (catalog), 1963b:151 (museum list), 1964a:471 (catalog); Chûjô 1966:35 (faunal list); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:95 (Pakistan species); Würmli 1975b:371 (faunal list), 1976c:302 (distribution); Sharma & Sood 1978:352 (chromosomes); Kimoto & Takizawa 1981:64 (faunal list), 1983:180 (faunal list); T’an & Yu 1981:518 (faunal list); Takizawa 1985c:102 (faunal list), 1988:11 (faunal list), 1989:326 (faunal list); Mann 1988:125 (male genitalia); Petitpierre et al. 1988:179 (chromosomes); Gruev 1990a:65 (faunal list); L. Medvedev 1990:44 (faunal list), 2000b:24 (faunal list); Sprecher-Uebersax 1997:160 (faunal list); Basu 1999:179 (distribution); Kimoto 1999:133 (southeast Asia species); Medvedev & Sprecher Uebersax 1999a:344 (faunal list); Kimoto 2001:68 (faunal list), 2005:101 (faunal list);


Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Hartmann & Medvedev 2003:179 (faunal list); Wheeler et al. 2007:276 (host plant); Julio et al. 2010:30 (noted).

Dicladispa previspinosa (Chapuis) [sic]. Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa (Triplispa) brevispinosa brevispinosa (Chapuis). Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385

(catalog). Dactylispa (Triplispa) brevispinosa (Chapuis). Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:489 (faunal list). Dactylispa srnkae Weise 1897:133 (type: Burma, Ruby Mines, ZHMB). Donckier 1899:611

(catalog); Weise 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Maulik 1919:184 (India species); Uhmann 1963b:152 (museum list).

Dactylispa brevispinosa srnkae Weise. Uhmann 1954b:24 (key). Dicladispa snrkae (Weise) [sic]. Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa peregrina Maulik 1919:184 (type: India, Punjab, Simla Hills; United Provinces,

Dehra Dun; Sikkim, Darjiling; Lebong; Kurseong; Ghumti; Mungphu; Gopaldhara; Assam, the Peak, Shillong; Burma, Ruby Mines, BMNH, NZSI?). Gestro 1920:396 (faunal list); Uhmann 1939a:9 (faunal list), 1954:21 (synonymy), 1963b:153 (museum list); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:97 (Bangladesh species); Vazirani 1972:144 (faunal list); Suzuki 1983a:94 (noted); Mann & Crowson 1985a:79 (male genitalia), 1985b:131 (sensilla).

Dactylispa brevispinosa yunnana Chen & T’an 1961:465 (type: China, Yunnan, IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto 1963b:931 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:60 (types); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) brevispinosa yunnana Chen & Tan. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 catalog). Distribution: Bangladesh, Bhutan, China (Yunnan, Xizang), India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Punjab, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal), Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam. Food plant: Bambusa sp. (Poaceae) (Hua 2002); Dioscorea bulbifera L. (Dioscoreaceae) (Wheeler et al. 2007).

Dactylispa breviuscula Uhmann 1958f Dactylispa breviuscula Uhmann 1958f:491 (type: Kenya, Emali Range, Sultan Hamud, BMNH).

Uhmann 1964a:471 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:366 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Kenya. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa bulbifera L. Medvedev 1993 Dactylispa bulbifera L. Medvedev 1993:375 (type: India, Uttar Pradesh, Sattal, NHMB).

Distribution: India (Uttar Pradesh). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa burgeoni Uhmann 1931g Dactylispa burgeoni Uhmann 1931g:86 (type: Belgian Congo, Haut-Uelé, MRAC). Uhmann

1936d:412 (noted), 1942a:16 (faunal list), 1947a:134 (faunal list), 1953b:21 (noted),


1954f:36 (faunal list), 1955h:159 (key), 1958e:284 (catalog), 1961a:34 (distribution), 1964a:471 (catalog), 1966a:10 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:366 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).


Dactylispa burmana Uhmann 1939a Dactylispa burmana Uhmann 1939a:7 (type: N. E. Burma, Kambaiti, NHRS). Uhmann 1954b:33

(key), 1958e:285 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:367 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list); L. Medvedev 2000a:181 (distribution); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Distribution: China (Yunnan), Laos, Myanmar. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa calaviteana Uhmann 1930-1932 Dactylispa calaviteana Uhmann 1930-1932:56 (type: Philippines, Mindoro, Mt. Calavite,

SMTD). Uhmann 1933a:70 (faunal list), 1945-1948:179 (sculpture), 1954b:25 (key), 1958e:285 (catalog), 1964(1965):258 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:367 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Dactylispa calaviteana posticalis Uhmann 1964(1965):258 (type: Mindoro, Subaan, DEI). Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Philippines (Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa callani Uhmann 1960b Dactylispa callani Uhmann 1960b:83 (type: Madagascar, Forest Périnet, NMBZ?). Uhmann

1960e:260 (faunal list), 1964a:471 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:367 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa callosa Uhmann 1935b Dactylispa callosa Uhmann 1935b:122 (type: Kapland, NHRS). Uhmann 1948d:2 (type),

1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:161 (Africa species), 1956f:340 (catalog), 1957e:337 (faunal list), 1958e:285 (catalog), 1962a:229 (larva), 1964a:471 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:367 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Grass (Poaceae) (Uhmann 1962a).


Dactylispa calva Uhmann 1941b Dactylispa calva Uhmann 1941b:6 (type: British East Africa, Mulange, DEI). Uhmann 1942a:

16 (faunal list), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:165 (Africa species), 1958e:285 (catalog), 1961a:34 (noted), 1963b:473 (museum list), 1964a:471 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:367 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: British East Africa, Congo, Ivory Coast. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa capicola (Péringuey 1898) Hispa capicola Péringuey 1898:121 (type: South Africa, Cape Colony, Cape Town,

Stellenbosch, Worcester; SAMC). Donckier 1899:603 (catalog). Dactylispa capicola (Péringuey). Weise 1901:240 (transfer), 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:99

(catalog); Gestro 1905b:550 (catalog), 1914:284 (faunal list); Uhmann 1931c:3 (noted), 1931i:861 (key), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955g:457 (museum list), 1955h:160 (Africa species), 1956b:407 (noted), 1956f:340 (catalog), 1958e:285 (catalog), 1962a:223 (lectotype), 1964a:471 (catalog).

Distribution: South Africa, Uganda. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa carinata Chen & T’an 1961 Dactylispa carinata Chen & T’an 1961 (type: China, Yunnan, IZAS). Yang & Sun 1991:59

(types); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list). Dactylispa (Triplispa) carinata Chen & T’an. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog). Distribution: China (Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa carinifrons Gestro 1908 Dactylispa carinifrons Gestro 1908:124 (type: Madagascar, Ambovombe, NMNH). Gestro

1909b:278 (distribution); Weise 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:285 (catalog); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:504 (types).


Dactylispa cauta Weise 1899 Dactylispa cauta Weise 1899:267 (type: British East Africa, Mombo, ZMHB). Gestro 1901b:440

(noted), 1905b:523 (faunal list); Weise 1901:236 (noted), 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Uhmann 1928g:79 (faunal list). 1931i:870 (noted), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1954h:188 (West Africa species), 1955h:168 (Africa species), 1957e:337 (faunal list), 1958e:285 (catalog), 1961a:35 (distribution), 1964a:471 (catalog).

Distribution: British East Africa, German East Africa, Equatorial Guinea, South Africa. Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa cavicollis Gestro 1905b Dactylispa cavicollis Gestro 1905b:533 (type: S. Thomé, Agua-Ize, MCSN). Weise 1911a:64

(catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Uhmann 1931g:157 (key), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1954h:189 (West Africa species), 1955h:173 (Africa species), 1958e:285 (catalog); Würmli 1976c:312 (noted).

Distribution: Thomé Island. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa celebensis Uhmann 1960c Dactylispa celebensis Uhmann 1960c:26 (type: Indonesia, Central Celebes, Nanggala, depository

unknown). Uhmann 1964a:471 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:367 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Indonesia (Celebes). Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa cervicornis Gressitt 1950 Dactylispa cervicornis Gressitt 1950:113 (type: China, Fukien, Ta-chu-lan, ICRI). Uhmann

1958e:285 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:925 (China species); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) cervicornis Gressitt. T’an & Yu 1993:353 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog). Distribution: China (Fukien, Guangdong, Guizhou, Kwangtung). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa cervicornu Uhmann 1931g Dactylispa cervicornu Uhmann 1931g:153 (type: Spanish Guinea, Nkolentangan, ZMHB).

Uhmann 1931i:872 (noted), 1936a:449 (faunal list), 1942a:24 (faunal list), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:173 (Africa species), 1956g:79 (faunal list), 1958e:285 (catalog), 1961a:35 (distribution), 1964a:471 (catalog), 1967c:257 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:367 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Uganda. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa ceylonica Uhmann 1954n Dactylispa ceylonica Uhmann 1954n:512 (type: Ceylon, Vavuniya, BMNH). Uhmann 1958e:286

(catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:367 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Sri Lanka. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa chanchala Basu & Saha 1977 Dactylispa chanchala Basu & Saha 1977:383 (type: India, West Bengal. Near Barbati Busti,

ZSI). Basu 1999:186 (distribution); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Distribution: India (Kerala, Sikkim, West Bengal). Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa chapuisii (Gestro 1884) Hispa gestroi Chapuis 1879:29 (not Chapuis 1877) (type: Lac Tzana, ISNB). Alluaud 1900:329

(faunal list); Uhmann 1931i:886 (noted). Hispa chapuisii Gestro 1884:305 (replacement name for Hispa gestroi Chapuis 1879). Gestro

1897c:714 (distribution). Hispa cahpuisi Chapuis (sic). Donckier 1899:603 (lapsus calami, catalog). Dactylispa chapuisii (Gestro). Gestro 1904a:175 (faunal list), 1905b:550 (catalog), 1911b:28

(noted); Weise 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog); Uhmann 1931g:158 (distribution), 1931i:860 (noted), 1936a:444 (faunal list), 1936d:411 (museum list), 1937g:375 (museum list), 1942a:14 (faunal list), 1953b:21 (distribution), 1953i:5 (key), 1954f:37 (faunal list), 1955c:243 (distribution), 1955h:160 (Africa species), 1957j:124 (faunal list), 1958e:286 (catalog), 1958f:490 (distribution), 1961a:35 (distribution), 1963e:252 (museum list), 1964a:472 (catalog); Collart 1934:250 (host plant); Uhmann & Jolivet 1952:5 (redescription); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list); Cox 2004:391 (flight); Santiago-Blay 2004:60 (host plants).

Dactylispa chapuisi (Gestro). Maulik 1932:317 (larva), 1937:154 (host plant). Hispa weisei Kraatz 1895:197 (type: Togo, Addah, DEI). Donckier 1899:613 (catalog); Gaedike

& Döbler 1971:394 (types). Dactylispa weisei (Kraatz). Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog);

Gestro 1905b:550 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:860 (noted), 1936a:444 (faunal list), 1937g:375 (museum list), 1942a:25 (faunal list); Uhmann & Jolivet 1952:7 (synonymy).

Hispa pauli Weise 1897:137 (type: Dar-es-Salaam, ZMHB). Gestro 1898c:714 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:609 (catalog).

Dactylispa pauli (Weise). Gestro 1905b:550 (catalog); Weise 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog), 1926:29 (museum list); Uhmann 1928g:80 (key), 1931g:158 (distribution), 1931i:859 (type), 1936a:444 (faunal list), 1936d:411 (museum list), 1937g:375 (museum list); Uhmann & Jolivet 1952:7 (synonymy).

Dactylispa plena Weise 1899:265 (type: Kwai, ZMHB). Gestro 1905b:550 (catalog), 1910b:440 (noted); Weise 1910c:241 (faunal list), 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog), 1926:28 (museum list); Uhmann 1928g:76 (faunal list), 1931g:158 (distribution), 1931i:859 (noted), 1953i:5 (key), 1954f:37 (noted).

Dactylispa weisei plena Weise. Uhmann 1942a:25 (faunal list). Dactylispa pauli plena Weise. Uhmann 1947g:375 (museum list). Dactylispa chapuisii plena Weise. Uhmann 1953b:21 (noted), 1955c:243 (distribution),

1955h:161 (Africa species), 1956f:340 (catalog), 1958e:286 (catalog), 1961a:35 (distribution), 1963e:252 (museum list), 1964a:472 (catalog).

Dactylispa sp. Collart 1928:341 (host plant). Distribution: Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo. Food plants: Melinis minutiflora Beauvois (Maulik 1932); grass (Collart 1928); Panicum sp. (Collart 1934) (Poaceae).


Dactylispa chaturanga Maulik 1919 Dactylispa chaturanga Maulik 1919:237 (type: India, Madras, Nilgiri Hills, BMNH). Uhmann

1938d:427 (distribution), 1939a:9 (faunal list), 1958e:287 (catalog); Gressitt 1939a:176 (distribution), 1939b:207 (noted), 1950:114 (China species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:925 (China species); Würmli 1976c:302 (distribution); Kimoto 1999:134 (southeast Asia species); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) chaturanga Maulik. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog). Dicladispa chaturanga (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa haturanga Maulik (sic). Zaitsev 2012:310 (larva).

Distribution: China (Guangdong, Hunan, Kwangtung, Sichuan), India, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam. Food plant: Malus sylvestris Mill. (Hua 2002); Rubus sp. (Zaitsev 2012) (Roseacae).

Dactylispa chiayiana Kimoto 1978 Dactylispa chiayiana Kimoto 1978:71 (type: Taiwan, Fenchihu, Chiayi Hsien , KUEC). Kimoto

& Chu 1996:130 (faunal list); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Lee & Cheng 2010:190 (Taiwan species); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Distribution: Taiwan. Food plant: Cyclobalanopsis glauca (Thunb.) Oerst., C. salicina (Bl.) Oerst., C. stenophylloides (Hayata) Kudo & Masam., ex. Kudo (Fagaceae) (Lee & Cheng 2010).

Dactylispa chinensis Weise 1905g Dactylispa chinensis Weise 1905g:102 (type: China, Fukien, MNHN). Weise 1911a:64 (catalog),

1911b:96 (catalog); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Liu 1936:254 (China species); Wu 1937:914 (faunal list); Uhmann 1938d:428 (distribution), 1938f:227 (distribution), 1940h:126 (faunal list), 1948c:23 (distribution), 1949a:8 (key), 1954a:200 (noted), 1954b:30 (key), 1958e:287 (catalog); Gressitt 1950:115 (China species), 1953:125 (distribution); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:504 (types); Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:926 (China species); Würmli 1976c:303 (noted); Kimoto & Takizawa 1983:96 (faunal list); T’an & Yu 1992:608 (faunal list); Kimoto & Chu 1996:131 (faunal list); L. Medvedev 2000a:182 (distribution); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); T’an 2002:459 (faunal list); Kimoto 2005:103 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog); Zaitsev 2012:308 (larva).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) chinensis Weise. T’an & Yu 1993:353 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:489 (faunal list).

Dactylispa bindusara Maulik 1919:193 (type: India, United Provinces, W. Almora; Sikkim, Phusbsering; Assam, Khasi Hills, BMNH, NZSI?, Pusa). Uhmann 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1958e:283 (catalog), 1963b:154 (museum list); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:97 (Bangladesh species); Würmli 1975b:371 (faunal list), 1976c:303 (synonymy); Kimoto & Takizawa 1981:65 (faunal list); Basu 1999:180 (distribution); Medvedev & SprecherUebersax 1999a:344 (faunal list); L. Medvedev 2000b:24 (faunal list); Kimoto 2005:101 (faunal list).

Dicladispa bindusara (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology).


Dactylispa insulicola Chûjô 1933:326 (type: Taiwan, Taiheizan, TARI). Gressitt 1950:118 (China species); Uhmann 1958e:296 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:924 (China species); Takizawa 1978:601 (host plant); Chen et al. 1986:296 (synonymy); Kimoto & Chu 1996:131 (faunal list); Lee & Cheng 2007:156 (Taiwan species).

Dactylispa insulicolor Chûjô. Kimoto 1970:177 (faunal list). Dactylispa gestroi Gressitt 1938:327 (type: China, Hainan, Ta Hau, CASC). Gressitt 1939a:177

(distribution), 1939b:203 (distribution), 1950:115 (synonymy). Distribution: China (Fukien, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Kwangsi, Kwangtung, Sichuan, Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa chujoi Shirôzu 1957 Dactylispa chujoi Shirôzu 1957:55 (type: Taiwan, Taiheizan, KUEC). Uhmann 1964a:472

(catalog); Kimoto 1970:178 (faunal list); Takizawa 1978:601 (host plant); Kimoto & Chu 1996:130 (faunal list); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Lee & Cheng 2010:191 (Taiwan species). Distribution: Taiwan. Food plants: Rubus floribunda paniculata Hay. (Roseacae), Carpinus kawakamii Miq. (Betulaceae) (Takizawa 1978); Prunus campanulata Maxim. (Roseacae), Cyclobalanopsis glauca (Thung. ex. Murray) Oerst, Quercus variabilis Bl. (Fagaceae) (Lee 2009); Rubus swinhoei Hance (Lee & Cheng 2010).

Dactylispa cinchonae Uhmann 1961b Dactylispa cinchonae Uhmann 1961b:46 (type: South India, Anamalai Hills, Cinchona, NMNH).


Distribution: India. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa cincta (Gestro 1885) Hispa cincta Gestro 1885:177 (type: New Guinea, Andai, MCSN). Gestro 1892:1021

(distribution), 1897d:454 (distribution), 1899b:227 (noted); Donckier 1899:603 (catalog). Dactylispa cincta (Gestro). Weise 1897:150 (noted), 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog);

Gestro 1907:83 (museum list); Uhmann 1931a:179 (redescription), 1949b:671 (noted), 1954b:32 (key), 1958e:287 (catalog), 1964a:472 (catalog); Gressitt 1957b:318 (South Pacific species), 1960a:90 (New Guinea species), 1960b:707 (New Guinea species).

Distribution: New Guinea. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa cladophora (Guérin-Méneville 1841) Hispa cladophora Guérin-Méneville 1841:7 (type: Indonesia, Java, MNHN?). Chapuis 1876:

xxv (faunal list), 1877:57 (noted); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Gestro 1885:176 (distribution), 1897b:109 (noted); Donckier 1899:603 (catalog); Uhmann 1966d:277 (noted).


Dactylispa cladophora (Guérin-Méneville). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1910c:146 (distribution), 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:95 (catalog); Schultze 1916:102 (faunal list); Gestro 1917:429 (faunal list), 1919:343 (host plant), 1922:104 (faunal list); Maulik 1919:10 (noted); Uhmann 1928e:375 (faunal list), 1930-1932:53 (museum list), 1933a:76 (Philippine species), 1935g:148 (faunal list), 1954b:33 (key), 1956a:67 (larva, host plant), 1958e:287 (catalog), 1964(1965):251 (faunal list), 1966c:321 (faunal list); Gressitt 1939c:137 (distribution); Kalshoven 1957:12 (host plant); Baltazar 1968:221 (faunal list); Maddison 1993:383 (host plant); Mohamedsaid 2004:179 (Malaysian species); Santiago-Blay 2004:60 (host plants); Lit & Caasi-Lit 2009:106 (host plant). Distribution: Bismarck Islands, Indonesia (Java), Malaysia, Philippines (Leyte, Luzon). Food plants: Bambusa blumeana Schult. (Schultze 1916); Hymenachne sp. (Uhmann 1956a) (Poaceae).

Dactylispa clavata Weise 1901 Dactylispa clavata Weise 1901:235 (type: German East Africa, Tanga, ZMHB). Gestro 1904a:

175 (faunal list), 1905b:551 (catalog), 1911b:28 (noted); Weise 1910c:242 (faunal list), 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog); Uhmann 1931f:226 (museum list), 1931i:866 (noted), 1939f:151 (noted), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955g:457 (museum list), 1955h:155 (Africa species), 1956f:340 (catalog), 1957e:337 (faunal list), 1957f:305 (museum list), 1958e:287 (catalog), 1960d:374 (faunal list), 1961a:35 (distribution), 1961c:504 (noted), 1964a:472 (catalog); L. Medvedev 1996:262 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog).

Dactylispa natalensis Uhmann 1930f:168 (type: South Africa, Natal, Pietermaritzburg; Fort Napier, ZMHU, ZMHB, DEI). Uhmann 1931f:226 (museum list), 1931i:866 (synonymy), 1946a:17 (type); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:382 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Angola, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa clavicornis Chen & T’an 1964 Dactylispa (Rhoptrispa) clavicornis Chen & T’an 1964:415 (type: China, Yunnan, Xi-

shuangban-na, IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto 1965:804 (noted); Würmli 1976c:304 (noted); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list).

Rhoptrispa clavipennis Chen & Yu (sic). Hua 2000:294 (lapsus calami, faunal list). Distribution: China (Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa clementis (Chapuis 1877) Hispa clementis Chapuis 1877:56 (type: locality not stated, INSB?). Donckier 1899:603 (catalog). Dactylispa clementis (Chapuis). Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1901:240 (noted), 1911a:64 (catalog),

1911b:102 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:288 (catalog). Distribution: Patria? Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa collaris Uhmann 1936a Dactylispa collaris Uhmann 1936a:448 (type: Congo, Leo a Coqu, MRAC, DEI). Uhmann

1945-1948:188 (type), 1953b:29 (noted), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955c:251 (noted), 1955h:174 (Africa species), 1958e:288 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:368 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Congo. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa conferta Uhmann 1942a Dactylispa conferta Uhmann 1942a:20 (type: Congo, Parc National Albert, Rutshuru River,

MRAC, NHRS). Uhmann 1953b:22 (distribution), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:167 (Africa species), 1958e:288 (catalog), 1961a:36 (distribution), 1964a:472 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:368 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Congo, Uganda. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa confluens (Baly 1889) Hispa confluens Baly 1889:490 (type: Mytho, MNHN). Donckier 1899:604 (catalog); Staines &

Staines 1999:526 (Baly species list). Triplispa confluens (Baly). Weise 1897:136 (nomenclature); Gestro 1909d:561 (catalog),

1910:561 (distribution). Dactylispa confluens (Baly). Gestro 1909d:561 (noted); Weise 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:98

(catalog); Maulik 1919:238 (India species); Gestro 1920:401 (faunal list); Uhmann 1958e:288 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list); Würmli 1976c:303 (distribution); Kimoto 1999:134 (southeast Asia species), 2005:101 (faunal list); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1998:41 (faunal list), 1999a:344 (faunal list); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) confluens (Baly). Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog); SprecherUebersax 2011:489 (faunal list).

Dicladispa confluens (Baly). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Hispa platyprioides Gestro 1890:262 (type: Burma, Monti Carin, MCSN). Donckier 1899:609

(catalog); Gestro 1901b:437 (noted), 1909d:561 (catalog). Dactylispa (Triplispa) platyprioides (Gestro). Weise 1897:150 (noted). Dactylispa platyprioides (Gestro). Gestro 1909d:561 (noted); Weise 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:

98 (catalog); Maulik 1919:230 (India species); Uhmann 1938:428; (distribution), 1939a:9 (faunal list), 1954b:29 (key), 1958e:308 (catalog).

Dicladispa platyprioides (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa vestita Maulik 1919:238 (type: India, United Provinces, Mussoori, BMNH). Maulik

1937:115 (host plant); Uhmann 1958e:320 (catalog); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:98 (Bangladesh species); Würmli 1976c:303 (synonymy); Santiago-Blay 2004:62 (host plants); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog).

Dicladispa voituta (Maulik) [sic]. Anand 1997:9 (morphology).


Distribution: Bangladesh, China (Yunnan), India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam. Food plant: Prunus sp. (Roseacae) (Maulik 1937).

Dactylispa congrua (Péringuey 1898) Hispa congrua Péringuey 1898:123 (type: South Africa, Natal, Durban, SAMC). Donckier

1899:604 (catalog). Dactylispa congrua (Péringuey). Weise 1901:240 (transfer), 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:100

(catalog); Gestro 1905b:550 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:865 (noted), 1935b:123 (museum list), 1936a:447 (key), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:172 (Africa species), 1956b:408 (noted), 1956f:340 (catalog), 1958e:288 (catalog), 1963b:148 (museum list).

Dactylispa discreta Uhmann 1938c:115 (not Weise) (misidentification). Uhmann 1954:40 (correction).

Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa corpulenta Weise 1897 Dactylispa corpulenta Weise 1897:132 (type: India, Kanara, BMNH, ZMHB). Weise 1905b:120

(faunal list), 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog); Maulik 1919:196 (India species); Chûjô 1933:113 (distribution); Gressitt 1938:332 (faunal list), 1939a:176 (distribution), 1939b:202 (distribution), 1939c:137 (distribution); Uhmann 1948c:23 (distribution), 1954b:13, 21 (distribution, key), 1958e:288 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list); Takizawa 1985a:3 (faunal list); Basu 1999:180 (distribution); Kimoto 1999:135 (southeast Asia species); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:488 (faunal list).

Hispa corpulenta (Weise). Donckier 1899:604 (catalog). Dicladispa corpulenta (Weise). Anand 1997:9 (morphology).

Distribution: China (Hainan, Yunnan), India (Kerala, Karnataka), Laos, Nepal, Taiwan Vietnam. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa corvina Gestro 1908 Dactylispa corvina Gestro 1908:124 (type: Madagascar, Soanierana, MCSN). Gestro 1909b:

256 (distribution); Weise 1910d:483, 502 (faunal list), 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:873 (noted), 1958e:288 (catalog), 1960b:66 (redescription), 1960e:260 (faunal list), 1964a:472 (catalog), 1964c:170 (faunal list).


Dactylispa crassicuspis Gestro 1906a Dactylispa crassicuspis Gestro 1906a:184 (type: China, Yunnan, MCSN). Weise 1911a:65

(catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Liu 1936:254 (China species); Wu 1937:914 (faunal list); Gressitt 1939a:177 (distribution), 1939b:202 (distribution), 1950:116 (China species), 1953b:125 (distribution); Uhmann


1940h:126(faunal list), 1954a:198 (noted), 1954b:33 (key), 1958e:289 (catalog); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:504 (types); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:926 (China species); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) crassicuspis Gestro. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog). Dactylispa angulosa crassicuspis Gestro. Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list).

Distribution: China (Fukien, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hunan, Hupeh, Jiangxi, Kiangsi, Kwangtung, Kweichow, Shaanxi, Shensi, Sichuan, Yunnan). Food plants: Pyrus calleryana Decne., P. betulifolia Bunge (Roseacae) (Hua 2002).

Dactylispa cribricollis Gestro 1908 Dactylispa cribricollis Gestro 1908:124 (type: Madagascar, MCSN). Gestro 1909b:282

(distribution); Weise 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:289 (catalog).


Dactylispa curvispina Uhmann 1956i Dactylispa curvispina Uhmann 1956i:385 (type: Congo, Kivi, Kabara, MRAC). Uhmann 1958e:

289 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:369 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Dactylispa curvispina fusciventris Uhmann 1956i:387 (type: Kivu, Butembo, MRAC). Uhmann 1958e:289 (catalog).

Distribution: Congo. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa cylindrica Uhmann 1958a Dactylispa cylindrica Uhmann 1958a:216 (type: Transvaal, Rustenburg, TMSA). Uhmann

1964a:472 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:368 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Croton subgratissimus Prain (Euphorbiaceae) (Uhmann 1958a). Dactylispa daiaca Gestro 1923 Dactylispa daiaca Gestro 1923:14 (type: Borneo, Sandakan, MCSN). Uhmann 1958e:289

(catalog); Mohamedsaid 2004:179 (Malaysian species). Distribution: Indonesia (Borneo), Malaysia. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa daipa Maulik 1919 Dactylispa daipa Maulik 1919:225 (type: Andaman Islands, BMNH). Uhmann 1958e:289

(catalog); Takizawa 1985a:4 (faunal list); Basu 1999:184 (distribution). Dicladispa daipa (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: India (Andaman Islands, Tripura, West Bengal). Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa daturina (Gestro 1895a) Hispa daturina Gestro 1895a:467 (type: Ethiopia, Arussi Galla, Ganale Gudda, MCSN).

Donckier 1899:604 (catalog). Dactylispa daturina (Gestro). Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog);

Gestro 1898c:712 (noted), 1905b:551 (catalog); Uhmann 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:157 (Africa species), 1958e:289 (catalog). Distribution: Ethiopia. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa debeauxi Uhmann 1938e Dactylispa debeauxi Uhmann 1938e:117 (type: South Africa, Transvaal, Shilouvane, MCSN).

Uhmann 1945-1948:186 (sculpture), 1949b:682 (type), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:161 (Africa species), 1956f:340 (catalog), 1958e:289 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:370 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa debilis (Gestro 1897b) Hispa debilis Gestro 1897b:90 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Perak, MCSN). Donckier 1899:604

(catalog). Dactylispa debilis (Gestro). Weise 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Uhmann 1929b:2

(faunal list), 1945-1948:179 (sculpture), 1949b:670 (distribution), 1954b:26 (key), 1958e:289 (catalog), 1964a:472 (catalog); Kalshoven 1957:12 (host plant); Mohamedsaid 2004:180 (Malaysian species); Santiago-Blay 2004:60 (host plants). Distribution: Indonesia (Sumatra), Malaysia. Food plants: Nertera depressa Banks & Soland ex. Gaertner, Plectronia horrida (Blume) Benth. & Hook. (Rubiaceae) (Kalshoven 1957).

Dactylispa delicatulata (Gestro 1888b) Hispa delicatulata Gestro 1888b:182 (type: Burma, Bhamo, MCSN). Baly 1888a:663 (faunal

list); Gestro 1890:264 (distribution); Donckier 1899:604 (catalog). Dactylispa delicatulata (Gestro). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:97

(catalog); Maulik 1919:207 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:289 (catalog); Kimoto 1999:135 (southeast Asia species); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog).

Dicladispa delicatulata (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa longula Maulik 1919:204 (type: Burma, Momeit, BMNH). Gressitt 1938:333

(distribution), 1939a:174 (distribution), 1939b:203 (distribution), 1950:121 (China species); Uhmann 1958e:299 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:929 (China species); Chen et al. 1986:263 (China species); Würmli 1976c:311 (synonymy); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); T’an 2002:459 (faunal list).

Dicladispa longula (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa (Triplispa) subclathrata Gestro 1920:399 (type: Vietnam, Alto Meong, Tong Lap,

MCSN). Uhmann 1958e:316 (catalog); Kimoto 1999:135 (synonymy).


Distribution: China (Hainan, Hunan, Kiangsi, Kwangtung, Sichuan), Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam. Food plants: Oryza sativa L., Bambusa sp. (Poaceae), Corylus sp. (Betulaceae), Sorbus sp. (Roseacae), Juglans regia L. (Juglandaceae) (Hua 2002).

Dactylispa delkeskampi Uhmann 1958e Hispa dimidiata Gestro 1885:177 (not Olivier) (type: Indonesia, Celebes, Kandari, MCSN).

Donckier 1899:604 (catalog). Dactylispa dimidiata (Gestro). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog),

1913:238 (faunal list); Schultze 1916:102 (faunal list); Gestro 1917:429 (faunal list), 1922:104 (faunal list); Uhmann 1933a:75 (Philippine species), 1945-1948:185 (sculpture), 1954f:15 (key); Gressitt 1939c:137 (distribution), 1954b:28 (key), 1957b:317 (South Pacific species); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Dactylispa delkeskampi Uhmann 1958e:289 (replacement name for Hispa dimidiata Gestro). Uhmann 1960c:24 (faunal list), 1964a:472 (catalog), 1964(1965):251 (faunal list); Staines 1997b:417 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Indonesia (Borneo, Celebes), Philippines (Bohol). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa dentispinis Gestro 1908 Dactylispa dentispinis Gestro 1908:126 (type: Madagascar, Diego-Suarez; Baja d’Antongil,

NMNH). Gestro1909b:272 (distribution); Weise 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1954i:53 (distribution), 1958e:290 (catalog), 1960b:77 (faunal list), 1960e:260 (faunal list); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:504 (types).


Dactylispa desertorum Weise 1918 Dactylispa desertorum Weise 1918:271 (type: Congo, Windhuk, ZMHB). Uhmann 1954f:39

(faunal list), 1955h:155 (Africa species), 1956f:340 (catalog), 1958e:290 (catalog), 1961a:36 (distribution), 1964a:472 (catalog).


Dactylispa dichroa Gestro 1908 Dactylispa dichroa Gestro 1908:129 (type: Madagascar, Fianarantsoa, Foreste di Fito, Baja

d’Antongil, MCSN). Gestro 1909b:264 (distribution); Weise 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:290 (catalog), 1960b:75 (faunal list), 1964c:170 (faunal list); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:504 (types).



Dactylispa digitata Uhmann 1954b Dactylispa digitata Uhmann 1954b:19 (type: China, NW Fukien, ZFMR, NHRS). Uhmann

1954a:202 (redescription), 1954b:35 (key), 1958e:290 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:926 (China species); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:370 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Ulmen et al. 2010:13 (types).

Dactylispa (Platypriella) digitata Uhmann. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog). Distribution: China (Fukien). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa dilutiventris Gestro 1908 Dactylispa dilutiventris Gestro 1908:130 (type: Madagascar, Antsianaka, Lago Alaotra,

Annanarivo, Sikira, MCSN). Gestro 1909b:265 (distribution); Weise 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:290 (catalog), 1960b:75 (faunal list).

Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa discalis Gressitt 1960 Dactylispa discalis Gressitt 1960b:710 (type: New Guinea, Karimui, BPBM). Santiago-Blay

2004:60 (host plants). Distribution: New Guinea. Food plant: Large-leafed shrub (Gressitt 1960).

Dactylispa discreta Weise 1901 Dactylispa discreta Weise 1901:237 (type: British East Africa, Usambara, Mombo; Africa,

ZMHB). Gestro 1905b:522 (faunal list); Weise 1910c:243 (comparative note), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Uhmann 1928g:79 (faunal list), 1931g:82, 155 (museum list, key), 1931i:868 (noted), 1934b:393 (museum list), 1937g:376 (museum list), 1938c:115 (museum list), 1942a:19 (faunal list), 1954f:39 (faunal list), 1954h:189 (West Africa species), 1955g:457 (museum list), 1955h:172 (Africa species), 1956f:340 (catalog), 1958e:290 (catalog).

Dactylispa ambigua (Péringuey). Uhmann 1954:40 (misidentification), 1958e:290 (correction). Distribution: Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa divarna Maulik 1919 Dactylispa divarna Maulik 1919:194 (type: Burma, Karen Hills, BMNH). Uhmann 1958e:290

(catalog). Dicladispa diverna (Maulik) [sic]. Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Myanmar. Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa dives Gestro 1908 Dactylispa dives Gestro 1908:129 (type: Madagascar, Foreste di Fito, Giugno-Luglio, MCSN).

Gestro 1909b:262 (distribution); Weise 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:290 (catalog).


Dactylispa dohertyi (Gestro 1897b) Hispa dohertyi Gestro 1897b:133 (type: Upper Burma, MNHN). Donckier 1899:604 (catalog). Dactylispa dohertyi (Gestro). Weise 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Maulik 1919:202

(India species); Uhmann 1939a:9 (faunal list), 1954b:22 (key), 1958e:291 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list); Takizawa 1985a:3 (faunal list); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog); Gupta et al. 2012:754-758 (biology).

Dicladispa doheriyi (Gestro) [sic]. Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: China (Yunnan), India, Myanmar. Food plant: Malus domestica Borkh. (Roseacae) (Gupta et al. 2012).

Dactylispa dolichocera Gestro 1905b Dactylispa dolichocera Gestro 1905b:525 (type: Fernando Poo, Basile, MCSN). Weise 1911a:65

(catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:870 (noted), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1954h:189 (West Africa species), 1955h:165 (Africa species), 1958e:291 (catalog), 1961a:36 (distribution).

Distribution: Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa donckieri Weise 1905g Dactylispa donckieri Weise 1905g:103 (type: Congo, Benito, NMNH). Gestro 1905b:551

(catalog); Weise 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Uhmann 1930h:131 (redescription), 1931g:157 (key), 1931i:872 (noted), 1936a:450 (faunal list), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1954h:190 (West Africa species), 1955h:173 (Africa species), 1958e:291 (catalog); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:504 (types).

Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa doriae (Gestro 1890) Hispa doriae Gestro 1890:256 (type: Burma, Monti Carin, MCSN). Donckier 1899:604

(catalog); Gestro 1901b:437 (noted); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:97 (Bangladesh species); Kimoto 1999:132 (synonymy).

Dactylispa doriae (Gestro). Weise 1897:147 (noted), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:95 (catalog); Maulik 1919:172 (India species); Gestro 1920:396 (faunal list); Uhmann 1958e:291 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list); Würmli 1975b:371 (faunal list); Basu 1999:178 (distribution); L. Medvedev 1992a:34 (faunal list), 2000a:181 (distribution); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:344 (faunal list); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list);


Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:488 (faunal list); Zaitsev 2012:305 (larva).

Dicladispa doriae (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa albopilosa Kimoto 1999:132 (not Gestro 1888b) (misidentification). Kimoto 2003:43

(faunal list), 2005:101 (faunal list). Distribution: Bangladesh, China (Yunnan), India (Assam, Karnataka, Sikkim, West Bengal), Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam. Food plants: Setaria sp. (Zaitsev 2012) (Poaceae); Xylosma sp. (Flacourtiaceae), Quercus sp. (Fagaceae) (Hua 2002).

Dactylispa echinata (Gyllenhal 1817) Hispa echinata Gyllenhal 1817:4 (type: Sierra Leone, UZIC, NHRS). Schönherr 1817:3

(catalog); Guérin-Méneville 1841:13 (comparative note); Thomson 1857b:226 (faunal list); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:55 (noted); Kraatz 1895:196 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:605 (catalog).

Dactylispa echinata (Gyllenhal). Gestro 1905b:523 (faunal list); Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1903: 61 (faunal list), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Uhmann 1931g:79, 154 (noted, key), 1954f:40 (faunal list), 1954h:188 (West Africa species), 1955h:168 (Africa species), 1957j:124 (faunal list), 1958e:291 (catalog), 1961a:36 (distribution), 1963b:473 (museum list), 1964a:472 (catalog), 1967c:257 (faunal list), 1968a:363 (faunal list); Grist & Lever 1969:227 (noted); Tiberghien 1976:180 (faunal list); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list).

Hispa maculipennis Kraatz 1895:196 (type: Togo, DEI). Donckier 1899:607 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:380 (types).

Dactylispa maculipennis (Kraatz). Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Gestro 1905b:551 (catalog); Uhmann 1931g:148 (synonymy). Distribution: Angola, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo. Food plant: Oryza sativa L. (Poaceae) (Tiberghien 1976).

Dactylispa elegantula (Duvivier 1892) Hispa elegantula Duvivier 1892:447 (type: India, Kurseong, ISNB). Donckier 1899:605 (catalog). Dactylispa elegantula (Duvivier). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:98

(catalog); Maulik 1919:217 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:291 (catalog); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:98 (Bangladesh species); Kimoto & Takizawa 1973:180 (faunal list); Würmli 1975b:371 (faunal list), 1976c:304 (noted); Basu 1999:183 (distribution); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:344 (faunal list); Hartmann & Medvedev 2003:179 (faunal list); Kimoto 2005:101 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:488 (faunal list).

Dicladispa elegantula (Duvivier). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa bilasa Maulik 1919:216 (type: India, Assam, Sudiya, BMNH). Uhmann 1958e:283

(catalog); Würmli 1976c:305 (synonymy); Basu 1999:183 (distribution). Dicladispa bilasa (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology).

Distribution: Bangladesh, India (Assam, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal), Nepal. Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa excisa (Kraatz 1879) Hispa excisa Kraatz 1879:140 (type: Amur, ZMHB, DEI). Heyden 1885:302 (faunal list);

Donckier 1899:605 (catalog); Reitter 1927:34 (Palearctic species); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:372 (types).

Dactylispa excisa (Kraatz). Weise 1897:150 (noted), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog); Uhmann 1928c:37 (noted), 1940h:127 (noted), 1945-1948:179 (sculpture), 1949a:7 (key), 1954a:204 (noted), 1954b:34 (key), 1958e:291 (catalog), 1964a:472 (catalog); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Liu 1936:254 (China species); Wu 1937:914 (faunal list); Chûjô 1941:232 (distribution); L. Medvedev 1957:294 (Russian species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:927 (China species); Kimoto 1976:8 (faunal list); Takizawa 1978:601 (host plant); An et al. 1985:5 (Korea species); T’an & Yu 1992:608 (faunal list); Kimoto & Chu 1996:130 (faunal list); Lee & Cheng 2007:158 (Taiwan species).

Dactylispa excisa excisa (Kraatz). Hua 2002:290 (faunal list). Dactylispa (Platypriella) excisa excisa (Kraatz). Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog). Dactylispa excisa repanda Weise 1922b:81 (type: China, Kiautschau, ZHMB?). Winkler

1929:1353 (catalog); Liu 1936:254 (China species); Wu 1937:915 (faunal list); Gressitt 1939b:202 (distribution), 1950:117 (China species), 1953b:126 (distribution); Uhmann 1945-1948:179 (sculpture), 1949a:7 (key), 1954b:34 (key), 1958e:292 (catalog).

Dactylispa (Platypriella) excisa meridionalis Chen & T’an 1961:475 (type: China, Yunnan, IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto 1963b:931 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:59 (types); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog).

Dactylispa (Platypriella) excisa (Kraatz). T’an & Yu 1993:353 (faunal list). Distribution: China (Anhwei, Checkiang, Fukien, Hupeh, Kiangsi, Kirin, Kweichow, Shensi, Szechuan, Yunnan), Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Russia, Taiwan. Food plants: Prunus sp. (Roseacae) (Takizawa 1978); Quercus sp. (Fagaceae), Zea mays L. (Poaceae), Citrus sp. (Rutaceae), Malus sylvestris Mill. (Roseacae) (Hua 2002); Prunus phaeosticta (Hance) Maxim (Roseacae) (Lee & Cheng 2007).

Dactylispa exilicornis Gestro 1908 Dactylispa exilicornis Gestro 1908:125 (type: Madagascar, Antsianaka, MCSN). Gestro

1909b:270; Weise 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:292 (catalog), 1960b:77 (faunal list), 1960e:261 (faunal list), 1964c:170 (faunal list).


Dactylispa fabricii L. Medvedev 2009 Dactylispa fabricii L. Medvedev 2009:410 (type: India, West Bengal, Darjeeling City, Tiger

Hills, NMEG). Distribution: India (West Bengal). Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa feae (Gestro 1888b) Hispa feae Gestro 1888b:183 (type: Burma, Bhamo, MCSN). Baly 1888a:663 (faunal list);

Gestro 1890:264 (distribution); Donckier 1899:605 (catalog). Dactylispa feae (Gestro). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog);

Maulik 1919:188 (India species); Gressitt 1938:332 (distribution); Uhmann 1958e:292 (catalog); Würmli 1976c:311 (noted); Kimoto 1999:136 (southeast Asia species); Mohamedsaid 2004:180 (Malaysian species), 2009:98 (distribution).

Dicladispa feae (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa filiola Weise 1897:135 (type: India, Kanara, BMNH). Weise 1905b:120 (faunal list),

1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog); Maulik 1919:199 (India species); Gressitt 1938:333 (distribution), 1939a:177 (distribution), 1939b:203 (distribution), 1950:117 (China species); Uhmann 1938d:427 (noted), 1954a:211 (faunal list), 1954b:21 (key), 1956d:511 (noted), 1958e:292 (catalog), 1963b:154 (museum list), 1964a:473 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:928 (China species); Würmli 1976c:311 (synonymy); Takizawa 1985a:3 (faunal list); Chen et al. 1986:269 (synonymy); Basu 1999:181 (distribution); Kimoto 2003:43 (faunal list); Borowiec & Świętojańska 2007:282 (distribution).

Hispa filiola (Weise). Donckier 1899:605 (catalog). Dicladispa piliola (Weise) [sic]. Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa flavomaculata Uhmann 1930h:133 (type: Vietnam, Nord-Tonkin, Ha-Lang, DEI).

Uhmann 1931f:225 (museum list), 1934:2 (synonymy), 1945-1948:188 (type), 1954b:21 (key), 1956d:511 (synonymy), 1958e:293 (catalog); Fukuda & Kurosa 1959:512 (larva); Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:373 (types); Chen et al. 1986:253 (China species); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list); T’an 2002:459 (faunal list). Distribution: Cambodia, China (Fukien, Guangdong, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Kiangsi, Kwangsi, Kwangtung, Sichuan, Yunnan), India (Assam, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu), Indonesia (Java, Lombok, Sumatra), Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam. Food plant: Unidentified grass (Poaceae) (Zaitsev 2012).

Dactylispa femoralis Uhmann 1954f Dactylispa femoralis Uhmann 1954f:59 (type: Congo, Parc National de l’Upemba, MRAC).

Uhmann 1953b:22 (noted), 1955h:156 (Africa species), 1958e:292 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:372 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).


Dactylispa ferox (Gestro 1897b) Hispa ferox Gestro 1897b:105 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Pangherang-Pisang, MCSN). Donckier

1899:605 (catalog). Dactylispa ferox (Gestro). Gestro 1909b:561 (noted); Weise 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:98

(catalog); Uhmann 1958e:292 (catalog). Distribution: Indonesia (Sumatra). Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa ferrugineonigra Maulik 1919 Dactylispa ferrugineonigra Maulik 1919:208 (type: Burma, Karen Hills, BMNH). Uhmann

1938f:227 (faunal list), 1945-1948:185 (sculpture), 1954b:24 (key), 1958e:292(catalog), 1964a:473 (catalog); Gressitt 1950:117 (China species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:927 (China species); Basu 1999:182 (distribution); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog).

Dicladispa ferrugineonigra (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: China (Yunnan), Myanmar. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa filicornis (Motschulsky 1861) Hispa filicornis Motschulsky 1861:239 (type: Nepal, ZMUM). Motschulsky 1869:80 (types);

Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Donckier 1899:605 (catalog); Maulik 1919:183 (noted).

Dactylispa filicornis (Motschulsky). Weise 1897:148 (noted); L. Medvedev 2006:415 (status). Dactylispa (Triplispa) filicornis (Motschulsky). Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:489 (faunal list). Distribution: India, Nepal. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa flava Achard 1917 Dactylispa flava Achard 1917:69 (type: Fort Sibut, NMPC). Uhmann 1931g:152 (noted),

1931i:871 (museum list), 1936a:449 (faunal list), 1953b:22 (distribution), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1954h:190 (West Africa species), 1955h:174 (Africa species), 1958e:292 (catalog), 1961a:36 (noted), 1964a:473 (catalog). Distribution: Congo, Sierra, Leone, Togo. Food plants: Phoenix reclinata Jacq. (Arecaceae), Loudetia sp., Urelytrum sp. (Poaceae) (Uhmann 1961a).

Dactylispa flavicornis Gestro 1909b Dactylispa flavicornis Gestro 1909b:261 (type: Madagascar, Santa Maria, MCSN). Weise

1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:292 (catalog).


Dactylispa flaviventris Gestro 1909b Dactylispa flaviventris Gestro 1909b:129 (type: Madagascar, Foreste di Fito, Giugno-Luglio;

Santa Maria di Madagascar; Diego-Suarez, MCSN). Weise 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:293 (catalog), 1960b:84 (redescription), 1964a:473 (catalog).


Dactylispa signicornis Weise 1909:113 (type: Madagascar, Mont d’Ambre, ZMHB). Weise 1910d:503 (faunal list), 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:875 (noted), 1958e:313 (catalog), 1964a:473 (synonymy).

Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa flavoapicalis T’an 1993 Dactylispa flavoapicalis T’an 1993:352 (type: China, Hunan, Mt. Tianping, IZAS). Borowiec &

Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Distribution: China (Hunan). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa foveiscutis Chen & T’an 1961 Dactylispa foveiscutis Chen & T’an 1961:466 (type: China, Yunnan, IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto

1963b:931 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:60 (types); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Distribution: China (Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa fukienica Chen & T’an 1964 Dactylispa (Dactylispa) fukienica Chen & T’an 1964:416 (type: China, Fukien, Kien-yang,

IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto 1965:804 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:60 (types); Hua 2002: 290 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Distribution: China (Fukien). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa fulvicornis Weise 1922b Dactylispa fulvicornis Weise 1922b:83 (type: Malaysia, Borneo; Sarawak, Lawas; NHRS).

Uhmann 1958e:293 (catalog), 1960e:261 (faunal list); Mohamedsaid 2004:180 (Malaysian species).

Distribution: Malaysia. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa fulvifrons Weise 1909 Dactylispa fulvifrons Weise 1909:113 (type: Madagascar, Mont d’Ambre, ZMHB). Weise

1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:873 (noted), 1954i:54 (distribution), 1958e:293 (catalog).

Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa fulvipes (Motschulsky 1861) Hispa fulvipes Motschulsky 1861:238 (type: Ceylon, depository unknown). Motschulsky 1869:

80 (types); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Donckier 1899:605 (catalog). Dactylispa fulvipes (Motschulsky). Gestro 1902a:56 (faunal list); Weise 1911a:65


(catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog); Maulik 1916:575 (museum list), 1919:247 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:293 (catalog).

Distribution: Sri Lanka. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa fumida Chen & T’an 1964 Dactylispa (Triplispa) fumida Chen & T’an 1964:417 (type: China, Yunnan, Xi-shuang-ban-na,

IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto 1965:804 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:59 (types); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Distribution: China (Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa furia Gestro 1907 Dactylispa furia Gestro 1907:72 (type: Indonesia, Java, HNHM). Weise 1911a:65 (catalog),

1911b:97 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:293 (catalog). Distribution: Indonesia (Java). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa gairi Maulik 1919 Dactylispa gairi Maulik 1919:227 (type: India, Madras, Nilgiri Hills, BMNH). Uhmann

1958e:293 (catalog). Distribution: India (Madras). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa garambae Uhmann 1961a Dactylispa garambae Uhmann 1961a:38 (type: Congo, Parc National de la Garamba, MRAC).


Distribution: Congo. Food plant: Hyparrhenia diplandra (Hack.) Stapf. (Poaceae) (Uhmann 1961a).

Dactylispa gonospila (Gestro 1897b) Hispa gonospila Gestro 1897:130 (type: India, Bawway, ISNB). Donckier 1899:605 (catalog);

Gestro 1899b:227 (noted). Dactylispa gonospila (Gestro). Weise 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Maulik 1919:213

(India species); Uhmann 1958e:293 (catalog); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:98 (Bangladesh species); Chen et al. 1961:459 (faunal list); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) gonospila Gestro. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Dicladispa gonospila (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology).

Distribution: Bangladesh, China (Fukien, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hunan, Yunnan), India, Taiwan. Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa gracilis (Péringuey 1898) Hispa gracilis Péringuey 1898:122 (type: South Africa, Natal, Estcourt; Zambesia, Salisbury,

SAMC). Donckier 1899:605 (catalog). Dactylispa gracilis (Péringuey). Weise 1901:240 (transfer), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:99

(catalog); Gestro 1905b:550 (catalog); Uhmann 1931c:4 (noted), 1931i:862 (key), 1934b:392 (museum list), 1938e:117 (museum list), 1953i:4 (key), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:160 (Africa species), 1956f:337 (museum list), 1957e:338 (faunal list), 1958e:293 (catalog), 1962a:227 (key), 1964a:473 (catalog).

Distribution: South Africa, Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa gratula (Péringuey 1898) Hispa gratula Péringuey 1898:123 (type: South Africa, Natal, Malvern, SAMC). Donckier

1899:605 (catalog). Dactylispa gratula (Péringuey). Weise 1901:240 (transfer), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:100

(catalog); Gestro 1905b:550 (catalog); Uhmann 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:171 (Africa species), 1956b:409 (noted), 1956f:340 (catalog), 1958e:293 (catalog).

Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa gressitti Uhmann 1954a Dactylispa gressitti Uhmann 1954a:205 (type: China, Fukien, Kuatun, NHRS, ZFMR). Uhmann

1958e:293 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:928 (China species); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:374 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list). Dactylispa (Triplispa) gressitti Uhmann. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Distribution: China (Fukien). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa griveaudi Uhmann 1964c Dactylispa griveaudi Uhmann 1964c:170 (type: Madagascar, Andranotobaka, ZUAC). Gaedike

& Döbler 1971:375 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa haeckelii Gestro 1902a Dactylispa haeckelii Gestro 1902a:56 (type: Ceylon, Nalanda, DEI?). Weise 1911a:66 (catalog),

1911b:96 (catalog); Maulik 1919:197 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:293 (catalog). Dicladispa haeckelii (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Sri Lanka. Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa hamulifera Gestro 1922 Dactylispa hamulifera Gestro 1922:106 (type: Philippines, Mindanao, Iligan, MCSN). Gestro

Uhmann 1933a:73 (faunal list), 1958e:293 (catalog), 1964(1965):251 (faunal list). Distribution: Philippines (Mindanao). Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa harsha Maulik 1919 Dactylispa harsha Maulik 1919:188 (type: India, United Provinces, W. Almora, Kumaon;

Assam, Cherrapunji, NZSI?). Uhmann 1958e:294 (catalog); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:97 (Bangladesh species); Würmli 1976c:305 (noted); Takizawa 1989:327 (faunal list); Basu 1999:180 (distribution); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:344 (faunal list); Kimoto 2005:101 (faunal list).

Dicladispa harsha (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa (Triplispa) harsha Maulik. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog);

SprecherUebersax 2011:489 (faunal list). Distribution: Bangladesh, India (Meghalaya, Uttar Pradesh), Nepal. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa higoniae (Lewis 1896) Hispa higoniae Lewis 1896:342 (type: Japan, Higo, Yuyama, BMNH). Schönfeldt 1897:140

(faunal list); Donckier 1899:606 (catalog). Dactylispa higoniae (Lewis). Weise 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog); Uhmann 1928c:37

(noted), 1949a:8 (key), 1954a:210 (noted), 1958e:294 (catalog); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Chûjô 1933:326 (Taiwan species), 1957:52 (faunal list), 1965:103 (faunal list); Gotô 1956:29 (faunal list); Chen et al. 1961:459 (faunal list); Chûjô & Kimoto 1961:194 (Japan species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:928 (China species); Nakane et al. 1963:347 (faunal list); Kimoto 1964:377 (type), 1966:637 (Japan species), 1970:178 (faunal list), 1986:61 (faunal list), 1987:29 (Japanese species), 1991:25 (faunal list), 1999:138 (southeast Asia species), 2001:69 (faunal list), 2005:101 (faunal list); Yano 1965:128 (larva); Kimoto & Takizawa 1978:610 (host plant), 1994:344 (Japan species); Chen et al. 1986:303 (China species); Kimoto & Chu 1996:130 (faunal list); Lee & Cheng 2007:154 (Taiwan species).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) higoniae (Lewis) (sic). T’an & Yu 1993:353 (lapsus calami, faunal list); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:490 (faunal list).

Dactylispa higoniae higoniae (Lewis). Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); T’an 2002:459 (faunal list). Dactylispa (Triplispa) higoniae higoniae (Lewis). Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Hispa platyprioides Gestro 1890:262 (type: Burma, MCSN). Kimoto 1999:138 (synonymy). Dactylispa asoka Maulik 1919:218 (type: India, Madras, Nilgiri Hills, BMNH). Uhmann

1934a:30 (distribution), 1938d:427 (distribution), 1938f:227 (distribution), 1954b:27 (key), 1958e:281 (catalog); Gressitt 1950:112 (China species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:925 (China species); Würmli 1975b:371 (faunal list); Chen et al. 1986:303 (synonymy); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:344 (faunal list); L. Medvedev 2000b:24 (faunal list); Hartmann & Medvedev 2003:179 (faunal list); Kimoto 2005:101 (faunal list).


Dicladispa asoka (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa corpulentina Uhmann 1927d:113 (type: Taiwan, Hokuto; Chosokei; Paroe; Kankau;

Kosempo; Taihoku, DEI). Chûjô 1933:325 (Taiwan species); Gressitt 1938:332 (distribution), 1939a:176 (distribution), 1950:115 (distribution); Uhmann 1954a:210 (synonymy), 1954b:27 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:369 (types).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) higoniae szechuanensis Chen & T’an 1961:472 (type: China, Szechuan, IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto 1963b:931 (noted); T’an & Yu 1981:518 (faunal list); Yang & Sun 1991:59 (types); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Distribution: Bhutan, China (Fukien, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Kiangsi, Kwangtung, Sichuan, Yunnan), India (Madras, Sikkim), Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam. Food plant: Callicarpa mollis Sieb. & Zucc. (Verbenaceae) (Chûjô & Kimoto 1961)

Dactylispa hirsuta Gestro 1906a Dactylispa hirsuta Gestro 1906a:191 (type: German East Africa, Usambara; Derema; MCSN).

Weise 1910c:243 (faunal list), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Uhmann 1928g:79 (faunal list), 1931g:81, 155 (museum list, key), 1931i:868 (noted), 1935b:122 (museum list), 1935i:177 (faunal list), 1936a:447 (faunal list), 1936c:124 (noted), 1936d:411 (museum list), 1937g:376 (noted), 1938e:117 (museum list), 1942a:16 (faunal list), 1953b:22 (distribution), 1954f:42 (faunal list), 1955c:243 (distribution), 1955h:170 (Africa species), 1957e:338 (faunal list), 1958e:294 (catalog), 1958f:490 (noted), 1961a:40 (noted), 1964a:473 (catalog), 1967c:257 (faunal list); Ritchie 1929:37 (host plant); Risbec 1950a:394 (host plant); Booth et al. 1990:154 (noted); Cox 2004:391 (flight). Distribution: Angola, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania. Food plants: Coffea sp. (Rubiaceae) (Ritchie 1929); Prunus sp., Malus sylvestris Mill. (Roseacae) (Booth et al. 1990).

Dactylispa hirtella Gestro 1917 Dactylispa hirtella Gestro 1917:431 (type: Philippines, Mindanao, Davao, MCSN). Gestro

1922:104 (faunal list); Uhmann 1933a:76 (Philippine species), 1958e:294 (catalog), 1964(1965):251 (faunal list).

Distribution: Philippines (Mindanao). Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa horni Gestro 1902a Dactylispa horni Gestro 1902a:58 (type: Sri Lanka, Nalanda, MCSN). Gestro 1909d:561

(catalog); Weise 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog); Maulik 1919:231 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:294 (catalog).

Dicladispa horni (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Sri Lanka. Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa horrida Gestro 1908 Dactylispa horrida Gestro 1908:128 (type: Madagascar, Antakares-Isokitra, MCSN). Gestro

1909b:258 (distribution); Weise 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:875 (museum list), 1954i:54 (distribution), 1958e:294 (catalog), 1960b:73 (redescription), 1960e:261 (faunal list).


Dactylispa horrifica (Gestro 1897b) Hispa horrifica Gestro 1897b:106 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Soekaranda, MCSN). Donckier

1899:606 (catalog). Dactylispa horrifica (Gestro). Weise 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:295

(catalog). Distribution: Indonesia (Sumatra). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa hospes Weise 1909 Dactylispa hospes Weise 1909:112 (type: Madagascar, Andranohinaly, ZMHB). Weise

1910d:443, 502 (faunal list), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:875 (noted), 1958e:295 (catalog), 1960b:81 (redescription), 1960e:261 (faunal list), 1964a:473 (catalog).


Dactylispa hostica (Gestro 1898) Hispa hostica Gestro 1898d:219 (type: Indonesia, Nais, MCSN). Gestro 1901b:438 (noted),

1909d:561 (catalog). Dactylispa hostica (Gestro 1898). Gestro 1909:561 (noted); Weise 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:98

(catalog); Uhmann 1958e:295 (catalog). Distribution: Indonesia (Nais). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa humeralis Weise 1905b Dactylispa humeralis Weise 1905b:202 (type: India, Nilgiri Hills, ZMHB, BMNH). Gestro

1909d:561 (catalog), 1916:75 (noted); Weise 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog); Maulik 1919:236 (India species); Uhmann 1954b:34 (key), 1958e:295 (catalog); Sharma & Sood 1978:352 (chromosomes); Pajni et al. 1987:34 (internal reproductive system); Petitpierre et al. 1988:179 (chromosomes); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:344 (faunal list); Kimoto 2005:102 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog); Julio et al. 2010:30 (noted); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:488 (faunal list).

Dicladispa humeralis (Weise). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: India (Nilgiri Hills), Nepal. Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa humilis Weise 1909 Dactylispa humilis Weise 1909:115 (type: Madagascar, Mont d’Ambre, ZMHB). Weise 1911a:

66 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:874 (museum list), 1958e:295 (catalog), 1960b:74 (redescription), 1960e:261 (faunal list), 1964a:473 (catalog), 1964c:171 (faunal list).


Dactylispa hystrix (Duvivier 1891) Hispa hystrix Duvivier 1891:cccxlvii (type: Madagascar, ISNB). Donckier 1899:606 (catalog);

Alluaud 1900:329 (faunal list). Dactylispa hystrix (Duvivier). Gestro 1909b:276 (Madagascar species); Weise 1897:148

(noted), 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:874 (noted), 1954f:54 (faunal list), 1954j:3 (redescription), 1958e:295 (catalog), 1960b:84 (faunal list), 1964a:473 (catalog), 1964c:171 (faunal list); Paulian 1949:368 (larva).

Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Panicum glanduliferum Schum. (Poaceae) (Paulian 1949).

Dactylispa ignorata Uhmann 1953i Dactylispa ignorata Uhmann 1953i:2 (type: Congo, Bas-Congo, Mayumbem Mazinga-Lolo,

DEI). Uhmann 1953b:22 (distribution), 1954f:43 (faunal list), 1955h:159 (Africa species), 1956h:5 (museum list), 1958e:295 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:375 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Dactylispa chapuisi (Gestro). Uhmann 1928g:76 (misidentification); Collart 1928:341 (host plant), 1934:250 (ecology); Uhmann 1931i:862 (museum list), 1936:444 (host plant); Maulik 1932:317 (larva), 1937:154 (host plant).

Distribution: Congo, Ethiopia, Zambia. Food plant: Melinis minutiflora Beauvois (Poaceae) (Collart 1928).

Dactylispa inaequalis Chen & T’an 1964 Dactylispa (Dactylispa) inaequalis Chen & T’an 1964:416 (type: China, Yunnan, Xi-shuangban-

na, IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto 1965:804 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:60 (types); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Distribution: China (Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa inanis (Péringuey 1898) Hispa inanis Péringuey 1898:124 (type: Natal, Malvern, SAMC). Donckier 1899:606 (catalog). Dactylispa inanis (Péringuey). Weise 1901:240 (transfer), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:100

(catalog); Gestro 1905b:550 (catalog); Uhmann 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:171 (Africa species), 1956b:410 (noted), 1956f:340 (catalog), 1958e:295 (catalog).



Dactylispa incredula Gestro 1905b Dactylispa incredula Gestro 1905b:531 (type: San Thomé, Agua-Ize, MCSN, DEI, ZMHB).

Weise 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Uhmann 1931g:157 (key), 1931i:871 (noted), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1954h:189 (West Africa species), 1955h:174 (Africa species), 1958e:295 (catalog); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:504 (types); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:376 (types); Würmli 1976c:312 (noted).

Distribution: Thomé Island. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa infuscata (Chapuis 1876) Hispa infuscata Chapuis 1876:xxvi (type: Philippines, Bajol, ISNB). Gemminger & Harold

1876:3618 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:57 (noted); Donckier 1899:606 (catalog). Dactylispa infuscata (Chapuis). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:96

(catalog), 1913:238 (faunal list); Schultze 1916:102 (faunal list); Gestro 1917:429 (faunal list), 1919:343 (food plant), 1922:104 (faunal list); Uhmann 1930-1932:56 (redescription), 1933a:70 (faunal list), 1943d:206 (sculpture), 1954b:29 (key), 1958e: 296 (catalog), 1964(1965):251 (faunal list); Kalshoven 1957:12 (host plant); Baltazar 1968:221 (faunal list); Maddison 1993:383 (host plant); Santiago-Blay 2004:60 (host plants); Lit & Caasi-Lit 2009:106 (host plant).

Dactylispa infuscata notata Uhmann 1964(1965):251 (type: Samar Island, Siargao, depository unknown). Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Philippines (Bajol, Basilan, Bohol, Bucas, Leyte, Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro, Negros, Panaon, Samar). Food plant: Bambusa blumeana Schultes (Poaceae) (Schultze 1916).

Dactylispa insignita (Chapuis 1877) Hispa insignita Chapuis 1877:54 (type: Ceylon, ISNB). Donckier 1899:606 (catalog). Dactylispa insignita (Chapuis). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog);

Gestro 1902a:56 (faunal list); Maulik 1919:242 (India species); Uhmann 1954b:33 (key), 1958e:296 (catalog).

Dicladispa insignita Chapman [sic]. Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Sri Lanka. Food plants: Unknown.

Dactylispa intactilis (Gestro 1897b) Hispa intactilis Gestro 1897b:89 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Pangherang-Pisang, MCSN).

Donckier 1899:606 (catalog). Dactylispa intactilis (Gestro). Weise 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog); Uhmann 1930b:1

(key), 1958e:296 (catalog). Distribution: Indonesia (Sumatra). Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa intermedia Chen & T’an 1961 Dactylispa intermedia Chen & T’an 1961:473 (type: China, IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto 1963b:

931 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:59 (types); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list). Dactylispa (Triplispa) intermedia Chen & Tan. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog).

Distribution: China (Fukien, Yunnan). Food plant:Unknown.

Dactylispa integra Uhmann 1949b Dactylispa integra Uhmann 1949b:675 (type: Kenya, Chania, BMNH). Uhmann 1945-1948:184

(sculpture), 1949f:40 (redescription), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:163 (Africa species), 1958e:296 (catalog), 1963e:252 (museum list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:376 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).


Dactylispa isaroensis Uhmann 1933a Dactylispa isaroensis Uhmann 1933a:70 (type: Philippines, South Luzon, Mt. Isaros, depository

unknown). Uhmann 1954b:26 (key), 1958e:296 (catalog), 1964(1965):258 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:377 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list); Staines & Staines 1997:11 (types).

Distribution: Philippines (Biliran, Luzon, Mindanao, Samar). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa issiki Chûjô 1938 Dactylispa issiki Chûjô 1938:12 (type: Japan, Kyûshû, Mt. Kirishimayama, Hyûga, type

destroyed). Gyotoku 1954:38 (host plant); Uhmann 1958e:294 (catalog), 1964a:473 (catalog); Chûjô & Kimoto 1961:194 (Japan species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:928 (China species); Kimoto 1966:638 (Japan species); Kimoto & Takizawa 1994:344 (Japan species); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:60 (host plants); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog).

Dactylispa issikii Chûjô (sic). Uhmann 1949a:6 (lapsus calami, key); Chûjô & Kimoto 1961:194 (Japan species); Nakane et al. 1963:347 (faunal list); Kimoto 1987:29 (Japan species); Lee 1993:411 (larvae); Maddison 1993:269, 270, 405 (host plant).

Dactylispa isshikii Chûjô (sic). Fukuda & Kurosa 1959:512 (lapsus calami, larva). Dactylispa kaulina Gressitt 1950:118 (type: China, N. Kwangtung, Kau-Lin San, ICRI). Uhmann

1954a:200 (noted), 1954b:25 (key), 1958e:297 (catalog), 1964a:473 (synonymy); Kalshoven 1957:12 (host plant); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:928 (China species); Maddison 1993:405 (host plant); Staines & Staines 1997:11 (types); SantiagoBlay 2004:61 (host plants).

Distribution: China (Fukien, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Kwangtung, Zhejiang), Japan, Korea.

Food plants: Bamboo (Gressitt 1950); Arundinaria pygmaea glabra Ohwi, A. simonii (Carriere) Riv., Phyllostachys bambusoides Sieb. & Zucc., Oryza sativa L. (Gyotoku 1954) (Poaceae).


Dactylispa jacobsoni Uhmann 1928f Dactylispa jacobsoni Uhmann 1928f:397 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Subanajam, RMNH).

Uhmann 1935g:149 (faunal list), 1938c:116 (museum list), 1954b:33 (key), 1958e:296 (catalog); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list); Mohamedsaid 2004:180 (Malaysian species). Distribution: Indonesia (Borneo, Sumatra), Malaysia. Food plants: Unknown.

Dactylispa javaensis Maulik 1931 Dactylispa javaensis Maulik 1931:1157 (type: Indoneisa, Java, Buitenzorg, BMNH, DEI).

Uhmann 1940g:123 (claws), 1953h:90 (noted), 1954n:516 (distribution), 1956a:62 (immatures), 1958e:296 (catalog); Kalshoven 1957:12 (host plant); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:377 (types); Cox 1996a:171 (pupa); Mohamedsaid 2004:180 (Malaysian species); Santiago-Blay 2004:61 (host plants); Świętojańska et al. 2006:66 (noted). Distribution: Indonesia (Java), Malaysia. Food plants: Gardenia sp. (Rubiaceae) (Bernard 1924); salam utan, kerema (Maulik 1931).

Dactylispa jiva Maulik 1919 Dactylispa jiva Maulik 1919:195 (type: Burma, Tavoy, BMNH). Uhmann 1958e:297 (catalog). Dicladispa jiva (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Myanmar. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa jonathani Basu & Saha 1977 Dactylispa jonathani Basu & Saha 1977:379 (type: India, West Bengal, Rangirum, ZSI). Basu

1999:186 (distribution); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Distribution: India (Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa julii Uhmann 1932 Dactylispa filicornis Weise 1912:96 (type: Cameroon, Ekona, ZMHB). Dactylispa julii Uhmann 1931i:865 (replacement name). Uhmann 1936a:447 (key), 1954f:59

(faunal list), 1955h:165 (Africa species), 1958e:297 (catalog), 1961a:86 (noted), 1964a:473 (catalog); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Cameroon, Nigeria. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa kambaitica Uhmann 1939a Dactylispa kambaitica Uhmann 1939a:6 (type: Burma, Kambaiti, NHRS). Uhmann 1954b:27

(key), 1958e:297 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:377 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list).


Dactylispa (Triplispa) kambaitica Uhmann. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Distribution: China (Yunnan), Myanmar. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa kantakita Maulik 1919 Dactylispa kantakita Maulik 1919:239 (type: India, Madras, Nilgiri Hills, BMNH). Uhmann

1949b:671 (noted), 1958e:297 (catalog); Würmli 1976c:305 (noted); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog).

Dicladispa kantakita (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: India (Madras), Myanmar. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa kerimii (Gestro 1897b) Hispa kerimii Gestro 1897b:93 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Pangherang-Pisang, MCSN). Gestro

1897c:176 (distribution), 1901b:438 (noted). Dactylispa kerimii (Gestro). Weise 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Uhmann 1931e:4

(faunal list), 1935g:149 (faunal list), 1954b:29 (key), 1958e:297 (catalog). Hispa ramuligera Chapuis. Ritsema 1886:181 (misidentification); Gestro 1897:176 (correction). Distribution: Indonesia (Java, Sumatra). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa klapperichi Uhmann 1954a Dactylispa klapperichi Uhmann 1954a:190 (type: China, Fukien, Kuatun, ZFMR). Uhmann

1954a:192 (noted), 1954b:27 (key), 1958e:297 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:459 (faunal list); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:928 (China species); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:378 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Ulmen et al. 2010:13 (types).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) klapperichi Uhmann. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Distribution: China (Fukien, Hupeh, Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa kleinei Uhmann 1930a Dactylispa kleinei Uhmann 1930a:4 (type: Indonesia, Java, DEI). Uhmann 1934d:2 (faunal list),

1954b:30 (key), 1958e:297 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:378 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list); Mohamedsaid 2004:180 (Malaysian species).

Distribution: Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sumatra), Malaysia. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa korenaus An et al. 1985 Dactylispa korenaus An et al. 1985:5 (type: Korea, Kwabgwon, Mt. Ch’iaksan, depository

unknown). Distribution: South Korea. Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa kumatai Kimoto 1996 Dactylispa kumatai Kimoto 1996:50 (type: Taiwan, Hotso, Nantou Hsein, EIHU). Dactylispa (Triplispa) kumatai Kimoto. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog).

Distribution: Taiwan. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa kunala Maulik 1919 Dactylispa kunala Maulik 1919:245 (type: India, Bombay, Castle Rock, NZSI?). Uhmann

1958e:297 (catalog); Basu 1999:185 (distribution); Borowiec & Świętojańska 2007:282 (distribution).

Dicladispa kunala (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: India (Karnataka, Maharashtra). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa laccata Uhmann 1930-1932 Dactylispa laccata Uhmann 1930-1932:54 (type: Philippines, Luzon, Benguet, Mt. Santo

Thomas, DEI). Uhmann 1933a:74 (Philippine species), 1945-1948:185 (sculpture), 1954b:26 (key), 1958e:297 (catalog), 1964(1965):258 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:378 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Philippines (Luzon, Mindanao). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa lameyi Uhmann 1930h Dactylispa lameyi Uhmann 1930h:134 (type: Vietnam, Nord-Tonkin, Halang, DEI). Uhmann

1934a:29 (noted), 1939g:8 (noted), 1954b:23 (key), 1958e:297 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:378 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list); Kimoto 1999:139 (southeast Asia species); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Distribution: China (Guangxi, Yunnan), Vietnam. Food plant: Phragmites communis Trin. (Poaceae) (Hua 2002).

Dactylispa lankaja Maulik 1919 Dactylispa lankaja Maulik 1919:186 (type: Ceylon, Nuwara Eliya; Dikoya; Horton Plains;

BMNH). Uhmann 1958e:297 (catalog); Takizawa 1985b:571 (faunal list); Kimoto 2003:43 (faunal list).

Dicladispa lankaja (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Sri Lanka. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa lateralis Weise 1904b Dactylispa lateralis Weise 1904b:450 (type: Africa mer., Cap. Albany, ZMHU). Gestro

1905b:549 (catalog); Weise 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:859


(noted), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:161 (Africa species), 1956f:341 (catalog), 1958e:297 (catalog).

Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa latifrons Chen & T’an 1961 Dactylispa latifrons Chen & T’an 1961:467 (type: China, Yunnan, IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto


Dactylispa latipennis Chûjô 1933 Dactylispa latipennis Chûjô 1933:329 (type: Taiwan, Fenchihu, TARI). Gressitt 1950:119

(China species); Uhmann 1958e:298 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:922 (China species); Kimoto 1970:178 (faunal list), 1987:194 (faunal list), 1991:25 (faunal list); Kimoto & Chu 1996:131 (faunal list); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Lee & Cheng 2010:193 (Taiwan species).

Dactylispa (Platypriella) latipennis Chûjô. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog). Distribution: Taiwan. Food plant: Cyclobalanopsis glauca (Thunb.) Oerst., C. salicina (Bl.) Oerst., C. sessilifolia (Bl.) Schottky, Castanopsis uraiana (Hayata) Kudo & Masam. Ex. Kudo, Litocarpus castanopsisifolius (Hayata) Hayata, Pasania chiaratuangensis (Liao) Liao, P. dodoniifolia Hayata, P. formosana (Skan ex. Forbes & Hemsl.) Schottky, P. hancei (Benth.) Schottky, P. kawakamii (Hayata) Schottky, Quercus glandulifera Blume, Q. tatakaensis Tomiya, Q. variabilis Bl.(Fagaceae) (Lee & Cheng 2010).

Dactylispa latispina (Gestro 1899b) Hispa latispina Gestro 1899b:228 (type: Vietnam, Haut Tonkin, N. O. de Bao-Lac, MCSN).

Donckier 1899:606 (catalog); Weise 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Gestro 1920:398 (faunal list); Gressitt 1938:333 (distribution), 1939a:174 (distribution), 1939b:203 (distribution), 1950:120 (China species); Uhmann 1958e:298 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:459 (faunal list); Würmli 1976c:311 (noted); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list).

Dactylispa latispina (Gestro). T’an 2002:460 (faunal list). Dactylispa (Platypriella) latispina (Gestro). Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog);

SprecherUebersax 2011:489 (faunal list). Dactylispa saurus Uhmann 1954a:194 (type: China, Fukien, Kuatun, ZFMR). Uhmann

1954a:194 (faunal list), 1954b:34 (key), 1958e:312 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:388 (types); Würmli 1976:311 (synonymy); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list); Ulmen et al. 2010:13 (types).

Dactylispa latispina saurus Uhmann. Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:928 (China species). Distribution: China (Fukien), Vietnam. Food plant:


Dactylispa lenta Weise 1901 Dactylispa lenta Weise 1901:237 (type: German East Africa, ZMHB). Gestro 1905b:551

(catalog), 1911b:30 (noted); Weise 1910d:444, 447, 502 (faunal list), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog), 1911c:30 (noted); Uhmann 1928g:79 (faunal list), 1931f:226 (museum list), 1931g:80, 155 (noted, key) 1931i:867 (noted), 1936a:447 (faunal list), 1937g:377 (museum list), 1938d:424 (noted), 1942a:20 (faunal list), 1953b:22 (noted), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1954i:54 (noted), 1955h:164 (Africa species), 1958e:298 (catalog), 1958f:490 (distribution), 1960b:81 (noted), 1960e:261 (faunal list), 1961a:42 (noted), 1964a:473 (catalog); Banwo et al. 2001a:189 (pest status), 2004:31 (distribution); Banwo 2002:111 (pests status); Santiago-Blay 2004:61 (host plants).

Dactylispa sp. Banwo et al. 2000:89 (pest status). Distribution: Congo, Tanzania. Food plants: Oryza sativa L. (Banwo et al. 2001a); Loudetia sp., Hyparrhenia sp., Sporobolus sp., Setaria chevalieri Stapf., S. megaphylla T. Durand & Schinz (Uhmann 1961a) (Poaceae).

Dactylispa lentoides Uhmann 1931g Dactylispa lentoides Uhmann 1931g:80 (type: Belgian Congo, Haut-Uele, Abimva, MRAC).

Uhmann 1936a:445 (faunal list), 1942a:20 (faunal list), 1953b:22 (distribution), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:164 (Africa species), 1958e:298 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:379 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).


Dactylispa leonardi (Ritsema 1876) Hispa leonardi Ritsema 1876:48 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, depository unknown). Gemminger &

Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:55 (noted); Gestro 1897b:93 (distribution); Donckier 1899:606 (catalog).

Dactylispa leonardi (Ritsema). Weise 1897:150 (distribution), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog); Gestro 1920:398 (faunal list); van der Meer Mohr 1926:500 (host plant); Uhmann 1929b:3 (faunal list), 1930b:1 (key), 1954b:32 (key), 1958e:298 (catalog), 1964a:473 (catalog); Risbec 1950a:394 (host plants); Kalshoven 1951:762 (host plant), 1957:12 (host plant), 1981:458 (host plant); Kimoto 1999:139 (southeast Asia species); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Kimoto 2004:62 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:61 (host plants).

Dactylispa fleutiauxi Gestro 1923:12 (type: Tonchino, MCSN). Uhmann 1930b:1 (key), 1934a: 29 (noted), 1938d:427 (distribution), 1954b:32 (key), 1958e:293 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list); Kimoto 1999:139 (synonymy), 2005:102 (faunal list); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) fleutiauxi Gestro. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Distribution: Cambodia, China (Guangxi, Yunnan), Indonesia (Sumatra), Laos, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam. Food plant: Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn. (Bombacaceae) (van der Meer Mohr 1926); Helicteres sp. (Sterculiaceae) (Kimoto 1999).


Dactylispa leptacantha (Gestro 1897b) Hispa leptacantha Gestro 1897b:98 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Nais, Perak, MCSN). Gestro

1897e:399 (faunal list), 1898d:217 (distribution); Donckier 1899:606 (catalog). Dactylispa leptacantha (Gestro). Gestro 1902b:151 (faunal list), 1905:151 (distribution),

1909(1910):148 (faunal list); Weise 1905b:117 (faunal list), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Maulik 1916:576 (museum list); Uhmann 1935g:149 (faunal list), 1958e:298 (catalog); Mohamedsaid 2004:180 (Malaysian species).


Dactylispa lesnei Gestro 1908 Dactylispa lesnei Gestro 1908:128 (type: Madagascar, Baja d’Antongil; Nord Madagascar

(Antakares) Isokitra a Diego-Suarez, MCSN). Gestro 1909b:286 (noted); Weise 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:298 (catalog); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types).


Dactylispa litigiosa (Péringuey 1898) Hispa litigiosa Péringuey 1898:125 (type: South Africa, Natal, Malvern; Zululand, Eschowe,

SAMC). Donckier 1899:606 (catalog). Dactylispa litigiosa (Péringuey). Weise 1901:240 (transfer), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:99

(catalog); Gestro 1905b:551 (catalog); Uhmann 1935b:122 (museum list), 1936d:411 (noted), 1942a:25 (faunal list), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955g:457 (museum list), 1955h:157 (Africa species), 1956f:341 (catalog), 1957e:338 (faunal list), 1958e:299 (catalog), 1958f:490 (distribution), 1964a:473 (catalog), 1964d:732 (museum list); Cox 2004:391 (flight).

Distribution: Congo, South Africa, Tanzania. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa lividipes (Fairmaire 1893) Hispa lividipes Fairmaire 1893:554 (type: Comores, depository unknown). Donckier 1899:607

(catalog); Alluaud 1900:329 (faunal list). Dactylispa lividipes (Fairmaire). Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1909:115 (noted), 1910d:502 (faunal

list), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Gestro 1909b:261 (Madagascar species); Uhmann 1958e:299 (catalog), 1960b:75 (faunal list), 1960e:261 (faunal list), 1964a:473 (catalog), 1964c:171 (faunal list).



Dactylispa lohita Maulik 1919 Dactylispa lohita Maulik 1919:197 (type: India, United Provinces, W. Almora; Assam, Shillong;

Manipur, NZSI?, BMNH). Uhmann 1954b:20 (key), 1958e:299 (catalog); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:97 (Bangladesh species); Würmli 1975b:377 (noted), 1976c:306 (distribution); T’an & Yu 1981:518 (faunal list); Kimoto & Takizawa 1983:95 (faunal list); Takizawa 1985a:3 (faunal list), 1985c:113 (faunal list), 1988:11 (faunal list); Basu 1999:181 (distribution); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:345 (faunal list); L. Medvedev 2000b:24 (faunal list); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Hartmann & Medvedev 2003:179 (faunal list); Kimoto 2005:102 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:488 (faunal list).

Dicladispa lohita (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Bangladesh, Bhutan, China (Xizang), India (Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal), Nepal. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa longicornis (Motschulsky 1861) Hispa longicornis Motschulsky 1861:240 (type: Burma, ZMUM). Motschulsky 1869:80

(types); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Weise 1897:131 (noted), 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Donckier 1899:607 (catalog); Maulik 1919:201 (synonymy); Uhmann 1958e:322 (catalog).

Dactylispa longicornis (Motschulsky). Weise 1897:148 (noted); L. Medvedev 2006:416 (status). Hispa severinii Gestro 1897b:129 (type: India, Barway, MCSN, ISNB). Donckier 1899:611

(catalog). Dactylispa severinii (Gestro). Weise 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Maulik 1919:201

(India species); Uhmann 1954b:25 (key), 1958e:313 (catalog); Würmli 1976c:310 (distribution); Takizawa 1985a:3 (faunal list), 1986:47 (faunal list); Basu 1999:181 (distribution); Kimoto 1999:143 (southeast Asia species); L. Medvedev 2006:416 (synonymy).

Dicladispa severini (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa andrewesi Weise 1897:129 (type: India, Belgaum, BMNH). Weise 1905b:119

(synonymy); Maulik 1919:170 (India species). Hispa indica (Weise). Donckier 1899:606 (replacement name). Distribution: India (Bihar, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, UP), Thailand. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa longicuspis (Gestro 1897b) Hispa longicuspis Gestro 1897b:108 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Perak, MCSN, DEI). Donckier

1899:607 (catalog); Gestro 1899c:326 (distribution); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:379 (types). Dactylispa longicuspis (Gestro). Gestro 1902b:151 (faunal list), 1909(1910):149 (faunal list);

Weise 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog), 1922b:82 (noted); Maulik 1916:575 (museum list); Uhmann 1928e:374 (faunal list), 1945-1948:179 (sculpture), 1948b:74 (distribution), 1954b:26 (key), 1958e:299 (catalog), 1960c:17 (faunal list), 1964a:474 (catalog); Reid 1997:42 (faunal list); Mohamedsaid 2004:181 (Malaysian species).

Distribution: Indonesia (Borneo, Sumatra), Malaysia.


Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa longispina Gressitt 1938 Dactylispa longispina Gressitt 1938:328 (type: China, Hainan, Sa Ko Lia, USNM). Gressitt

1939a:178 (distribution), 1950:120 (China species); Uhmann 1954b:25 (key), 1958e: 299 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:929 (China species); Staines & Staines 1997:12 (types); Kimoto 1999:140 (southeast Asia species); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); T’an 2002:459 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Distribution: China (Fukien, Guangxi, Hainan, Hupeh, Kwangtung, Yunnan), Thailand, Vietnam. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa lucida Gestro 1908 Dactylispa lucida Gestro 1908:131 (type: Madagascar, Antsianaka, Lago Alaotra, Fianarantsoa,

Foreste di Fito, MCSN). Gestro 1909b:266 (noted); Weise 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:66 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1954i:54 (distribution), 1958e:299 (catalog), 1960b:75 (redescription), 1960e:262 (faunal list), 1964a:473 (catalog), 1964c:172 (faunal list).


Dactylispa mabweana Uhmann 1954f Dactylispa mabweana Uhmann 1954f:44 (type: Congo, Parc National de l’Upemba, MRAC).

Uhmann 1955h:156 (Africa species), 1957e:338 (faunal list), 1958e:299 (catalog), 1964a:474 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:379 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Congo, South Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa macnamarana Gressitt 1957b Dactylispa macnamarana Gressitt 1957b:316 (type: New Guinea, Mt. Lamington, ANIC).

Gressitt 1960a:90 (New Guinea species), 1960b:710 (New Guinea species); Uhmann 1964a:474 (catalog).


Dactylispa maculosa (Fairmaire 1889) Hispa maculosa Fairmaire 1889:84 (type: China, MNHN). Donckier 1899:607 (catalog); Allard

1904:161 (faunal list). Dactylispa maculosa (Fairmaire). Weise 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:102 (catalog); Liu 1936:254

(China species); Gressitt 1950:122 (China species); Uhmann 1958e:322 (catalog); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Distribution: China (Jiangsu), Vietnam. Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa maculithorax Gestro 1906a Dactylispa maculithorax Gestro 1906a:189 (type: China, Yunnan, MCSN). Weise 1911a:67

(catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Liu 1936:254 (China species); Wu 1937:915 (faunal list); Uhmann 1940h:127 (noted), 1945-1948:179

(sculpture), 1954b:28 (key), 1958e:299 (catalog); Gressitt 1950:121 (China species); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types); Chen et al. 1961:459 (faunal list); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:929 (China species); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); T’an 2002:460 (faunal list).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) maculithorax Gestro. T’an 1993:382 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog).

Dactylispa maculicollis Gestro (sic). Uhmann 1938f:227 (lapsus calami, faunal list). Distribution: China (Fukien, Guangdong, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa madagassa Weise 1909 Dactylispa madagassa Weise 1909:113 (type: Madagascar, Anharimbela, ZHMB). Weise

1910d:444, 502 (faunal list), 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:874 (noted), 1954i:54 (distribution), 1958e:300 (catalog), 1960b:80 (redescription), 1963b:473 (museum list), 1964a:474 (catalog).


Dactylispa mahendra Maulik 1919 Dactylispa mahendra Maulik 1919:215 (type: India, Assam, Patkai Hills, BMNH). Uhmann

1958e:300 (catalog). Dicladispa mahendra (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: India (Assam). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa major Uhmann 1936d Dactylispa tenuicornis major Uhmann 1936d:411 (type: Ruwenzori, Kalonge, MRAC).

Uhmann 1942a:18 (faunal list), 1947a:134 (faunal list). Dactylispa major Uhmann. Uhmann 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955c:251 (noted), 1955h:166

(Africa species), 1958e:300 (catalog); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Rwanda. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa malabikae Basu & Saha 1977 Dactylispa malabikae Basu & Saha 1977:384 (type: India, West Bengal, Tarkhola, ZSI). Basu



Dactylispa malgachica Uhmann 1962b Dactylispa malgachica Uhmann 1962b:360 (type: Madagascar, Forêt de Fito, MRAC). Gaedike

& Döbler 1971:380 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa mamillata (Chapuis 1877) Hispa mamillata Chapuis 1877:56 (type: Cap. Bon. Spei., INSB?). Péringuey 1898:125 (faunal

list); Donckier 1899:607 (catalog). Dactylispa mamillata (Chapuis). Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:99

(catalog); Gestro 1905b:549 (catalog); Uhmann 1931c:3 (noted), 1931g:154 (noted), 1942a:14 (faunal list), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:159 (Africa species), 1956f:341 (catalog), 1957f:305 (museum list), 1958e:300 (catalog), 1964a:474 (catalog).

Distribution: Eritrea, Congo. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa manni Vazirani 1972 Dactylispa manni Vazirani 1972:145 (type: India, Nefa, Kameng Div., Amatulla River, ZSI).

Basu 1999:185 (distribution). Dactylispa manii Vazirani [sic]. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Distribution: India (Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa manterii (Gestro 1897b) Hispa manterii Gestro 1897b:104 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Perak, MCSN, DEI). Gestro

1897c:175 (distribution), 1909d:561 (catalog); Donckier 1899:607 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:380 (types).

Dactylispa manterii (Gestro). Gestro 1909d:561 (noted); Maulik 1931:1157 (noted), 1937:154 (host plant); Uhmann 1948b:74 (noted), 1954b:31 (key), 1958e:300 (catalog), 1964a:474 (catalog); Kalshoven 1951:761 (host plant), 1957:761 (host plant), 1981:458 (host plant); Mohamedsaid 2004:181 (Malaysian species); Staines 2004a:315 (host plants); Santiago-Blay 2004:61 (host plants).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) manterii (Gestro). Gestro 1909(1910):150 (faunal list). Dactylispa manteroi (Gestro) (sic). Weise 1911a:67 (lapsus calami, catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog);

Bernard & Menzel 1924:53 (host plants); Dammerman 1929:92 (host plant); Uhmann 1931e:4 (distribution), 1935g:149 (faunal list). Distribution: Indonesia (Sumatra), Malaysia. Food plants: Cocos nucifera L. (Arecaceae), Curcuma sp. (Zingiberaceae) (Bernard & Menzel 1924); Cinchona sp. (Rubiaceae) (Maulik 1937); Cinchona ledgeriana Moens ex. Trimen, Lagerstroemia sp. (Lytraceae) (Kalshoven 1951).


Dactylispa marshalli Uhmann 1938d Dactylispa marshalli Uhmann 1938d:427 (type: Borneo, West Sarawak, BMNH). Uhmann

1954b:22 (key), 1958e:301 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:380 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list); Mohamedsaid 2004:181 (Malaysian species).

Distribution: Indonesia (Borneo), Malaysia. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa mauliki Gressitt 1950 Dactylispa mauliki Gressitt 1950:123 (type: China, N. Kwangtung, Kau-lin San, ICRI). Uhmann

1958e:301 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:930 (China species); Staines & Staines 1997:13 (types); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Distribution: China (Kwangtung).

Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa melanaria (Motschulsky 1861) Hispa melanaria Motschulsky 1861:239 (type: Nigeria, Old Calabar, depository unknown).

Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Donckier 1899:607 (catalog). Chrysispa melanaria (Motschulsky). Weise 1897:146 (noted); Gestro 1905b:552 (catalog). Hispa (Chrysispa) melanaria (Motschulsky). Weise 1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog). Dactylispa melanaria (Motschulsky). Uhmann 1937g:374 (transfer), 1942a:24 (faunal list),

1953b:23 (distribution), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1954h:188 (West Africa species), 1954l:1114 (museum list), 1955c:243 (distribution), 1955h:158 (Africa species), 1956i:385 (comparative note), 1958e:301 (catalog), 1961a:42 (distribution), 1964a:474 (catalog) 1966b:216 (faunal list), 1967c:257 (faunal list), 1968a:363 (faunal list); Bouček 1976:409 (parasites); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:61 (host plants).

Hispa (Podispa) rufiventris Kraatz 1895:197 (type: Togo, DEI). Gaedike & Döbler 1971:387 (types). Hispa rufiventris Kraatz. Donckier 1899:610 (catalog). Dactylispa rufiventris (Kraatz). Weise 1897:140 (noted), 1903:61 (faunal list), 1911a:68

(catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog), 1912:96 (noted), 1915:182 (faunal list), 1922b:83 (noted); Gestro 1905b:522 (faunal list), 1911b:27 (noted); Achard 1917:67 (distribution); Uhmann 1928g:80 (key), 1930f:169 (museum list), 1931g:157 (distribution), 1931i:858 (noted), 1936a:443 (faunal list), 1936d:410 (noted), 1937g:375 (synonymy); Maulik 1932:313 (larva), 1937:154 (host plant); Collart 1934:250 (host plant); Cox 1996a:171 (pupa).

Dactylispa rufiventris gabunensis Weise 1897:140 (type: Gabon, ZMHB). Weise 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:859 (noted), 1954:190 (synonymy).

Hispa spinulosa var. B. Gyllenhal 1817:1 (noted); Kraatz 1895:197 (status); Weise 1922:84 (synonymy).

Dactylispa rufiventris nigriventris Weise 1922:83 (type: Kamerunberge, NHRS). Uhmann 1928g:80 (key), 1931g:158 (noted), 1936d:410 (noted), 1937g:375 (key), 1955h:158 (key), 1956i:385 (comparative note), 1958e:302 (catalog). Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda. Food plants: Setaria palmifolia Stapf., Panicum sp. (Poaceae) (Maulik 1932).


Dactylispa melanocera Chen & T’an 1961 Dactylispa melanocera Chen & T’an 1961:467 (type: China, Yunnan, IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto


Dactylispa melanosticata (Baly 1889) Hispa melanosticata Baly 1889:392 (type: Vietnam, Hue; India, BMNH?). Donckier 1899:607

(catalog); Staines & Staines 1999:526 (Baly species list). Dactylispa (Triplispa) melanosticata (Baly). Weise 1897:150 (noted). Dactylispa melanosticata (Baly). Gestro 1909d:561 (catalog); Weise 1911a:67 (catalog),

1911b:98 (catalog); Uhmann 1954b:25 (key), 1958e:302 (catalog); Kimoto 1999:140 (southeast Asia species).

Distribution: India, Vietnam. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa mendica Weise 1897 Dactylispa mendica Weise 1897:131 (type: Burma, Paungdè, BMNH). Weise 1897:148 (noted),

1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Maulik 1919:203 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:302 (catalog); Chen et al. 1986:609 (China species); Kimoto 1999:140 (southeast Asia species); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog).

Hispa mendica (Weise). Donckier 1899:607 (catalog). Dicladispa mendica (Weise). Anand 1997:9 (morphology).

Distribution: Cambodia, China (Yunnan), Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa minax (Gestro 1897b) Hispa minax Gestro 1897b:128 (type: Borneo, Brunei, MCSN). Donckier 1899:607 (catalog). Dactylispa minax (Gestro). Gestro 1902b:151 (faunal list), 1909(1910):149 (faunal list); Weise

1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Uhmann 1938c:116 (museum list), 1954b:29 (key), 1958e:302 (catalog), 1960c:17 (faunal list), 1964a:474 (catalog); Mohamedsaid 2004:181 (Malaysian species).

Dactylispa manax (Gestro) (sic). Reid 1997:42 (lapsus calami, faunal list). Distribution: Indonesia (Borneo), Malaysia. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa minor Gressitt 1960 Dactylispa minor Gressitt 1960b:711 (type: New Guinea, Bomberi, nr. Fak Fak, BPBM). Distribution: New Guinea. Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa minuta (Gestro 1890) Hispa minuta Gestro 1890:259 (type: Burma, Palon, MCSN). Donckier 1899:607 (catalog). Dactylispa minuta (Gestro). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog);

Maulik 1919:208 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:302 (catalog). Dicladispa minuta (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Myanmar. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa miranda Gestro 1917 Dactylispa miranda Gestro 1917:427 (type: Philippines, Mt. Makiling, MCSN). Gestro 1922:

103 (faunal list); Uhmann 1930-1932:53 (museum list), 1933a:71 (faunal list), 1943d:206 (sculpture), 1945-1948:185 (sculpture), 1954b:22 (key), 1958e:302 (catalog); L. Medvedev 1995:20 (distribution).

Dactylispa miranda var. Uhmann 1930-1932:53 (museum list). Dactylispa miranda unicolor Uhmann 1964(1965):252 (type: Philippines, Mindanao, Lanao,

Iligan, USNM). Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Philippines (Bucas, Leyte, Luzon, Mindanao, Negros, Samar). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa misellanea Uhmann 1928g Dactylispa misellanea Uhmann 1928g:78 (type: Congo, Wugiri, ZMHB). Uhmann 1931i:864

(type), 1936a:446 (key), 1942a:27 (faunal list), 1953b:23 (distribution), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:171 (Africa species), 1958e:302 (catalog); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Congo.

Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa mixta Kung & T’an 1961 Dactylispa mixta Kung & T’an 1961:468 (type: China, Yunnan, IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto


Dactylispa miyamotoi Kimoto 1970 Dactylispa miyamotoi Kimoto 1970:178 (type: Taiwan, Fenchihu, KUEC?). Kimoto & Chu

1996:131 (faunal list); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Distribution: Taiwan. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa modica Weise 1902 Dactylispa modica Weise 1902:310 (type: German East Africa, Umbugwe, ZMHB). Gestro


1905b:552 (catalog); Weise 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Gestro 1914:286 (faunal list); Uhmann 1931g:159 (distribution), 1931i:872 (noted), 1942a:20 (faunal list), 1949f:42 (museum list), 1953b:23 (distribution), 1954f:45 (faunal list), 1955c:243 (distribution), 1955h:173 (Africa species), 1958e:302 (catalog), 1960d:374 (faunal list), 1961a:42 (distribution), 1963e:252 (museum list), 1964a:474 (catalog).

Dactylispa collarti Uhmann 1931i:872 (type: East Kongostaat, Blukwam Mt. Wage, DEI). Uhmann 1936a:450 (faunal list), 1936d:412 (museum list), 1942a:24 (faunal list), 1945-1948:188 (type, synonymy), 1949f:42 (synonymy); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:368 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Congo, British East Africa, German East Africa, Rwanda. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa modiglianii (Gestro 1897b) Hispa modiglianii Gestro 1897b:96 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Nias, Perak, MCSN). Gestro

1897c:175 (distribution), 1897e:399 (faunal list), 1898d:217 (distribution), 1899c:326 (distribution); Donckier 1899:607 (catalog).

Dactylispa modiglianii (Gestro). Gestro 1902b:151 (faunal list), 1909(1910):149 (faunal list); Weise 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Uhmann 1928e:374 (faunal list), 1928f:397 (faunal list), 1931e:4 (faunal list), 1935g:149 (faunal list), 1945-1948:179 (sculpture), 1953h:90 (faunal list), 1954b:28 (key), 1958e:302 (catalog), 1960c:17 (faunal list), 1964a:474 (catalog); Reid 1997:42 (faunal list); Mohamedsaid 2004:181 (Malaysian species).

Hispa spinosa Weber. Ritsema 1887:180 (misidentification); Gestro 1897:175 (correction). Distribution: Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sumatra), Malaysia. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa molina Basu & Saha 1977 Dactylispa molina Basu & Saha 1977:385 (type: India, West Bengal, Goke F.R.H., ZSI). Basu


Dactylispa montana Uhmann 1933a Dactylispa montana Uhmann 1933a:69 (type: Philippines, Mt. Banahao, ZMHB). Uhmann

1954b:29 (key), 1958e:303 (catalog), 1964(1965):258 (faunal list); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list); Staines & Staines 1997:14 (types).

Distribution: Philippines (Luzon). Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa monticola (Gestro 1890) Hispa monticola Gestro 1890:257 (type: Burma, Chiala, MSCN). Donckier 1899:608 (catalog);

Gestro 1901b:437 (noted). Dactylispa monticola (Gestro). Weise 1897:141 (noted), 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog);

Maulik 1919:218 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:303 (catalog).


Dicladispa monticola (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Hispa monticola anthracina Gestro 1890:258 (type: Burma, Chiala, MCSN). Dactylispa monticola anthracina (Gestro). Weise 1897:141 (noted), 1911a:67 (catalog),

1911b:98 (catalog); Maulik 1919:218 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:303 (catalog). Distribution: Myanmar. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa montivaga (Gestro 1898b) Hispa montivaga Gestro 1898b:261 (type: India, Sikkim, Darjeeling, HNHM). Gestro 1901b:

440 (noted); Würmli 1975b:371 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Dactylispa montivaga (Gestro). Weise 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Maulik 1919:206

(India species); Uhmann 1958e:303 (catalog); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:97 (Bangladesh species).

Dicladispa montivaga (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Bangladesh, India (Sikkim). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa moramangae Uhmann 1964c Dactylispa moramangae Uhmann 1964c:176 (type: Madagascar, Est. Moramanga, ZUAC).

Gaedike & Döbler 1971:382 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa multifida (Gestro 1890) Hispa multifida Gestro 1890:263 (type: Burma, Palon, MCSN). Donckier 1899:608 (catalog);

Gestro 1901b:437 (noted), 1909d:561 (catalog). Dactylispa (Triplispa) multifida (Gestro). Weise 1897:150 (noted); Borowiec & Sekerka

2010:386 (catalog). Dactylispa multifida (Gestro). Gestro 1909d:561 (noted), 1920:401 (faunal list); Weise 1911a:

67 (catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog); Maulik 1919:233 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:303 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:459 (faunal list); Kimoto 1999:140 (southeast Asia species); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list).

Dicladispa multifida (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: China (Yunnan), Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa nalika Maulik 1919 Dactylispa nalika Maulik 1919:220 (type: India, Bombay, Matheran, BMNH). Uhmann

1958e:303 (catalog); Basu 1999:184 (distribution). Dicladispa nalika (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: India (Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu). Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa nandana Maulik 1919 Dactylispa nandana Maulik 1919 (type: India, Assam, Manipur, BMNH). Uhmann 1939a:9

(faunal list), 1958e:303 (catalog); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:97 (Bangladesh species); Würmli 1976c:308 (noted).

Dicladispa nandana (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Bangladesh, India (Assam), Myanmar. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa nemoralis (Gestro 1897b) Hispa nemoralis Gestro 1897b:101 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Pangherang-Pisang, Si-Rambe,

MCSN). Donckier 1899:608 (catalog). Dactylispa nemoralis (Gestro). Weise 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog), 1924:83

(distribution); Uhmann 1928e:375 (faunal list), 1931e:3 (faunal list), 1935g:149 (faunal list), 1954b:28 (key), 1956a:69 (larva), 1958e:303 (catalog); Kalshoven 1957:13 (host plant); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types); Santiago-Blay 2004:61 (host plants).

Distribution: Indonesia (Java, Sumatra). Food plant: Rubus moluccana L. (Roseacae) (Uhmann 1956).

Dactylispa nigricornis Gestro 1905b Dactylispa nigricornis Gestro 1905b:529 (type: Principe Island, MCSN, ZMHB). Weise

1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Uhmann 1931g:157 (key), 1931i:871 (noted), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1954h:189 (West Africa species), 1955h:174 (Africa species), 1958e:303 (catalog); Würmli 1976c:312 (noted).

Distribution: Principe Island. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa nigripennis (Motschulsky 1861) Hispa nigripennis Motschulsky 1861:239 (type: India or Burma, ZMUM). Motschulsky 1869:80

(types); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:53 (noted); Donckier 1899:608 (catalog).

Dactylispa nigripennis (Motschulsky). Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:102 (catalog), 1911d:173 (transfer); Maulik 1919:246 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:322 (catalog); L. Medvedev 2006:416 (status); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:488 (faunal list).

Distribution: India. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa nigritula (Guérin-Méneville 1841) Hispa nigritula Guérin-Méneville 1841:11 (type: Senegal, MNHN?). Gemminger & Harold

1876:3618 (catalog); Donckier 1899:608 (catalog); Uhmann 1966d:277 (noted). Dactylispa nigritula (Guérin-Méneville). Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:99

(catalog); Gestro 1905b:551 (catalog); Uhmann 1953b:23 (noted), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1954h:186 (West Africa species), 1955h:155 (Africa species), 1958e:303 (catalog),


1961a:86 (faunal list), 1964a:474 (catalog); Demaux 1961:714 (host plant); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list).

Hispa nigritula atratula Guérin-Méneville 1841:12 (type: Senegal, Pondicherry, MNHN?). Uhmann 1966d:277 (noted).

Distribution: Nigeria, Senegal. Food plant: Pennisetum dichotomum (Poaceae) (Demaux 1961).

Dactylispa nigrodiscalis Gressitt 1938 Dactylispa nigrodiscale Gressitt 1938:329 (type: China, Hainan, Ta Han, CASC). Dactylispa nigrodiscalis Gressitt. Gressitt 1939b:204 (distribution); Gressitt 1950:124 (China

species); Uhmann 1958e:303 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:459 (faunal list); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:930 (China species); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); T’an 2002:460 (faunal list).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) nigrodiscalis Gressitt. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Distribution: China (Fukien, Hainan, Kwangtung, Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa nigromaculata (Motschulsky 1861) Hispa nigromaculata Motschulsky 1861:239 (type: India or Burma, ZMUM). Motschulsky

1869:80 (types); Donckier 1899:608 (catalog). Dactylispa nigromaculata (Motschulsky). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:

102 (catalog); Maulik 1919:246 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:322 (catalog); L. Medvedev 2006:416 (status); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog).

Hispa xanthospila Gestro 1890:261 (type: Burma, Monti Carin, MCSN). Gestro 1897b:91 (distribution), 1901b:437 (noted); Donckier 1899:613 (catalog); Kimoto 1999:136 (synonymy).

Dactylispa xanthospila (Gestro). Weise 1897:135 (faunal list), 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog); Maulik 1919:200 (India species); Uhmann 1931e:3 (faunal list), 1934c:1 (distribution), 1943d:207 (sculpture), 1949b:670 (distribution), 1949f:30 (museum list), 1954b:21 (key), 1956d:511 (comparative note), 1958e:321 (catalog), 1964a:478 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list); Chûjô 1964:311 (faunal list); Takizawa 1986:47 (faunal list); T’an & Yu 1992:607 (faunal list) Basu 1999:181 (distribution); L. Medvedev 2000a:181 (distribution), 2006:416 (synonymy); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); T’an 2002:459 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog); Zaitsev 2012:308 (larva).

Dicladispa xanthospila (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Myanmar. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa nitidissima Gestro 1909b Dactylispa nitidissima Gestro 1909b:257 (type: Madagascar, Antsianaka, Lago Alaotra). Weise

1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:874 (museum list), 1958e:304 (catalog), 1960b:70 (redescription), 1960e:262 (faunal list), 1964a:474 (catalog), 1964c:172 (faunal list).



Dactylispa normalis Uhmann 1931g Dactylispa normalis Uhmann 1931g:148 (type: Cameroon, DEI). Uhmann 1931i:870 (noted),

1936a:448 (faunal list), 1936d:412 (museum list), 1937g:377 (museum list), 1953b:24 (noted), 1954f:47 (faunal list), 1954h:189 (West Africa species), 1955c:244 (distribution), 1955h:165 (Africa species), 1956g:79 (faunal list), 1958e:304 (catalog), 1966b:216 (faunal list), 1967c:257 (faunal list), 1968a:363 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:382 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Rwanda. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa oberthuri (Gestro 1897b) Hispa oberthuri Gestro 1897b:97 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Nias, Perak, MCSN, ISNB).

Donckier 1899:608 (catalog); Gestro 1899c:326 (distribution). Dactylispa oberthuri (Gestro). Weise 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Gestro 1919:345

(faunal list); Uhmann 1931e:4 (faunal list), 1938c:116 (museum list), 1939c:42 (noted), 1954b:29 (key), 1958e:304 (catalog), 1960c:17 (faunal list), 1961c:509 (noted), 1964a:474 (catalog); Reid 1997:43 (faunal list); Mohamedsaid 2004:181 (Malaysian species).

Distribution: Indonesia (Banka, Batoe, Borneo, Java, Malacca, Pulo, Sarawak, Sumatra), Malaysia, Singapore.

Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa omeia Chen & T’an 1961 Dactylispa omeia Chen & T’an 1961:473 (type: China, Szechuan, Omei-shan, IZAS). Gressitt &

Kimoto 1963b:931 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:59 (types); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list). Dactylispa (Triplispa) omeia Chen & Tan. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog).

Distribution: China (Hainan, Szechuan). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa opaca Maulik 1919 Dactylispa opaca Maulik 1919:228 (type: Andaman Islands, BMNH). Uhmann 1958e:304

(catalog). Dicladispa opaca (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Andaman Islands. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa orchymonti Uhmann 1931g Dactylispa d’orchymonti Uhmann 1931g:81 (type: Congo, Bambili-Niangara, MRAC). Uhmann

1931g:155 (key), 1931i:868 (noted), 1936a:448 (faunal list), 1936d:411 (museum list), 1937g:376 (museum list), 1938d:424 (distribution), 1942a:25 (faunal list), 1949b:675 (distribution), 1953b:22 (distribution); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:371 (types).

Dactylispa orchymonti Uhmann. Uhmann 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1954h:189 (West Africa species), 1954l:1114 (museum list), 1955h:166 (Africa species), 1958e:304 (catalog).


Dactylispa dorchymonti Uhmann. Uhmann 1961a:85 (noted), 1964a:472 (catalog), 1968a:363 (faunal list); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria. Food plant: Theobroma cacao L. (Steculiaceae) (Uhmann 1949b).

Dactylispa orophila (Gestro 1897b) Hispa orophila Gestro 1897b:127 (type: Borneo, Monte Kina-Balu, MCSN). Donckier 1899:608

(catalog). Dactylispa orophila (Gestro). Gestro 1902b; 151 (faunal list), 1909(1910):149 (faunal list);

Weise 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Uhmann 1949b:670 (distribution), 19451948:186 (sculpture), 1954b:28 (key), 1958e:304 (catalog).

Distribution: Malaysia. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa pachycera (Gerstäcker 1871) Hispa pachycera Gerstäcker 1871:85 (type: Sansibar, ZMHB). Gerstäcker 1873:290 (faunal list);

Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Donckier 1899:608 (catalog). Dactylispa pachycera (Gerstäcker). Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:99

(catalog); Gestro 1905b:549 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:866 (noted), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:157 (Africa species), 1958a:218 (redescription), 1958e:304 (catalog), 1958h:490 (distribution), 1964a:474 (catalog).

Distribution: Kenya, Sansibar Island. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa palliata (Chapuis 1876) Hispa palliata Chapuis 1876:xxv (type: Philippines, Mindanao, ISNB). Gemminger & Harold

1876:3618 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:57 (noted); Donckier 1899:609 (catalog). Dactylispa palliata (Chapuis). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:96

(catalog); Schultze 1916:102 (faunal list); Gestro 1917:429 (faunal list), 1922:104 (faunal list); Uhmann 1930-1932:54 (noted), 1933a:75 (Philippine species), 1958e:304 (catalog), 1964(1965):252 (faunal list).

Distribution: Philippines (Mindanao). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa pallidicollis Gressitt 1938 Dactylispa pallidicolle Gressitt 1938:330 (type: China, Hainan, Ta Han, CASC). Dactylispa pallidicollis Gressitt. Gressitt 1939a:175 (distribution), 1950:124 (China species);

Uhmann 1958e:305 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:930 (China species); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); T’an 2002:460 (faunal list).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) pallidicollis Gressitt. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Distribution: China (Hainan). Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa pallidissima Gestro 1910 Dactylispa pallidissima Gestro 1910:559 (type: Burma, Pegu, MSCN). Weise 1911b:98

(catalog); Maulik 1919:229 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:305 (catalog). Dicladispa pallidissima (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Myanmar. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa pallidiventris Gestro 1908 Dactylispa pallidiventris Gestro 1908:127 (type: Madagascar, Baja d’Antongil, MCSN). Gestro

1909b:288; Weise 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:305 (catalog); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types).


Dactylispa papilla T’an 1993 Dactylispa papilla T’an 1993:353 (type: China, Guizhou, Mt. Legion, IZAS). Dactylispa (Triplispa) papilla Tan. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog).

Distribution: China (Guizhou). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa pallidipennis (Motschulsky 1861) Hispa pallidipennis Motschulsky 1861:240 (type: India, ZMUM). Motschulsky 1869:80 (types);

Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:53 (noted); Donckier 1899:609 (catalog).

Dactylispa pallidipennis (Motschulsky). Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b: 102 (catalog); Maulik 1919:246 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:322 (catalog); L. Medvedev 2006:416 (types).

Distribution: India. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa pallipes (Kraatz 1895) Hispa pallipes Kraatz 1895:198 (type: Togo, ZMHB, DEI). Donckier 1899:609 (catalog);

Gaedike & Döbler 1971:383 (types). Dactylispa pallipes (Kraatz). Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog);

Gestro 1904a:176 (faunal list), 1905b:524 (faunal list); Uhmann 1928g:78 (faunal list), 1931i:863 (noted), 1936a:446 (key), 1938c:115 (museum list), 1942a:15 (noted), 1953b:25 (distribution), 1954f:47 (faunal list), 1954h:189 (West Africa species), 1955c:244 (distribution), 1955h:171 (Africa species), 1957f:305 (museum list), 1958a:219 (immatures), 1958e:305 (catalog), 1960d:374 (faunal list), 1961a:42 (distribution), 1963b:473 (museum list), 1964a:474 (catalog), 1966b:217 (faunal list), 1967c:257 (faunal list), 1968a:364 (faunal list); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:61 (host plants).

Dactylispa misella Weise 1901:236 (type: Usambara, Nguelo, DEI). Gestro 1905b:551


(catalog); Weise 1910c:242 (faunal list), 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog); Uhmann 1928f:78 (faunal list), 1931g:159 (distribution), 1931i:863 (noted), 1936a:445 (faunal list), 1937g:375 (museum list), 1942a:15 (synonymy); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:381 (types).

Dactylispa flavipes Weise 1911d:172 (type: Rhodesia, ZMHB). Weise 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog); Gestro 1914:286 (faunal list); Uhmann 1931i:862 (noted), 1936a:446 (key), 1942a:27 (faunal list), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:171 (synonymy), 1956f:341 (catalog), 1958a:219 (synonymy).

Dactylispa pallipes brunnescens Uhmann 1954f:48 (type: Kanonga, MRAC). Uhmann 1955h: 171 (key), 1958e:305 (catalog); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Food plant: Setaria chevalieri Stapf. (Poaceae) (Uhmann 1958a).

Dactylispa parbatya Maulik 1919 Dactylispa xanthopus Maulik 1918:70 (not Gestro) (type: India, United Provinces, W. Almora;

Sikkim, Darjeeling, Jalapahar, NZSI?, BMNH, MCSN). Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:97 (Bangladesh species).

Dactylispa parbatya Maulik 1919:234 (replacement name for Dactylispa xanthopus Maulik). Maulik 1937:154 (host plant); Uhmann 1938f:227 (distribution), 1939a:9 (faunal list), 1954b:31 (key), 1957f:306 (museum list), 1958e:306 (catalog), 1964a:475 (catalog); Gressitt 1950:125 (China species); Chen et al. 1961:459 (faunal list); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:930 (China species); Würmli 1975b:371 (faunal list); Kimoto & Takizawa 1983:95 (faunal list); Basu 1999:185 (distribution); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:345 (faunal list); L. Medvedev 2000b:24 (faunal list); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Kimoto 2005:103 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:61 (host plants).

Dicladispa parbatya (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa (Triplispa) parbatya Maulik. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog);

SprecherUebersax 2011:490 (faunal list). Distribution: Bangladesh, China (Fukien, Yunnan), India (Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal), Myanmar, Nepal. Food plant: Rubus sp. (Roseacae) (Maulik 1937). Dactylispa paronae (Gestro 1890) Hispa paronae Gestro 1890:260 (type: Burma, Monti Carin, MCSN, ISNB). Donckier 1899:609

(catalog); Gestro 1901b:437 (noted). Dactylispa paronae (Gestro). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog);

Maulik 1919:205 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:306 (catalog). Dicladispa paronae (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Myanmar. Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa parva Chen & T’an 1961 Dactylispa parva Chen & T’an 1961:468 (type: China, Yunnan, IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto


Dactylispa paucispina Gressitt 1939a Dactylispa paucispina Gressitt 1939a:178 (type: China, Kwangtung, Kiangsi, ICRI). Gressitt

1939b:204 (distribution), 1950:125 (China species); Uhmann 1954a:198 (noted), 1954b:32 (key), 1954h:192 (West Africa species), 1958e:306 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:930 (China species); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) paucispina Gressitt. T’an 1993:382 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Distribution: China (Fukien, Kiangsi, Kwangtung). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa pectinata L. Medvedev 1997 Dactylispa pectinata L. Medvedev 1997:267 (type: Nepal, Pokhara, IEME). Medvedev &

Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:345 (faunal list); Hartmann & Medvedev 2003:179 (faunal list); Kimoto 2005:103 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog); SprecherUebersax 2011:488 (faunal list).

Distribution: Nepal. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa perfida (Péringuey 1898) Hispa perfida Péringuey 1898:124 (type: South Africa, Natal, Malvern, ZMHB). Donckier

1899:609 (catalog). Dactylispa perfida (Péringuey). Weise 1901:240 (transfer), 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:100

(catalog); Gestro 1905b:550 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:866 (noted), 1934b:392 (museum list), 1953b:25 (noted), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:159 (Africa species), 1956f:341 (catalog), 1957e:338 (faunal list), 1958e:306 (catalog), 1964a:475 (catalog).

Dactylispa suahelorum Weise 1899:265 (type: Mombo, ZMHB). Gestro 1901b:440 (noted), 1905b:550 (catalog); Weise 1901:237 (noted).

Dactylispa perfida suahelorum Weise. Weise 1910c:243 (comparative note), 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Uhmann 1928g:78 (faunal list), 1931g:79, 154 (museum list, key), 1931i:867 (noted), 1937g:376 (museum list), 1942a:16 (faunal list), 1955h:159 (Africa species), 1958e:306 (catalog), 1958f:490 (distribution), 1964a:475 (catalog).

Distribution: Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa. Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa perinetina Uhmann 1960e Dactylispa perinetina Uhmann 1960e:262 (type: East Madagascar, Périnet, NHMB). Uhmann

1964a:475 (catalog), 1964c:172 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:384 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa perraudierei (Baly 1889) Hispa perraudierei Baly 1889:491 (type: Mytho, Pnomh-Penh, MNHN). Gestro 1897:90

(distribution), 1898:713 (noted); Donckier 1899:609 (catalog); Allard 1904:161 (faunal list); Staines & Staines 1999:526 (Baly species list).

Dactylispa perraudierei (Baly). Weise 1897:147 (noted), 1911a:68, 1911b:95 (catalog); Uhmann 1934d:2 (faunal list), 1958e:306 (catalog); Kimoto 1999:141 (southeast Asia species); Umemura et al. 2005:35 (faunal list).

Distribution: Indonesia (Sumatra), Thailand, Vietnam. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa perroteti (Guérin-Méneville 1841) Hispa perroteti Guérin-Méneville 1841:9 (type: India, Nilgiri Hills, MNHN?). Gemminger &

Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:55 (noted); Gestro 1897b:90 (distribution); Donckier 1899:609 (catalog); Uhmann 1966d:277 (noted).

Dactylispa perroteti (Guérin-Méneville). Weise 1897:144 (transfer), 1905b:118 (faunal list), 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog); Schultze 1916:102 (faunal list); Gestro 1917:430 (faunal list), 1922:104 (faunal list); Maulik 1919:173 (India species); Uhmann 1933a:75 (Philippine species), 1945-1948:179 (sculpture), 1953h:90 (noted), 1954b:20 (key), 1954n:516 (distribution), 1955b:53 (pupa), 1956d:507 (noted), 1958e:307 (catalog), 1960c:17 (faunal list), 1961b:48 (noted), 1964a:475 (catalog), 1964(1965):252 (faunal list), 1966c:321 (faunal list); Takizawa 1985a:3 (faunal list), 1987:526 (faunal list); Reid 1998:301 (faunal list); Basu 1999:178 (distribution); Mohamedsaid 2000a:358 (faunal list), 2004:182 (Malaysian species).

Dicladispa perroteti (Guérin-Méneville). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Hispa brunnipes Motschulsky 1861:238 (type: Indonesia, Java, depository unknown).

Motschulsky 1869:80 (types); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Donckier 1899:603 (catalog).

Dactylispa brunnipes (Motschulsky). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog); Uhmann 1939c:42 (noted), 1943d:206 (sculpture).

Dactylispa perroteti brunnipes (Motschulsky). Uhmann 1953h:90 (faunal list), 1954b:21 (key), 1956a:68 (immatures), 1956d:509 (nomenclature), 1958e:307 (catalog), 1964a:475 (catalog).

Hispa trifida Chapuis 1877:55 (type: Malacca, ISNB, NMNH). Gestro 1885:176 (distribution), 1897b:92 (distribution), 1899c:326 (distribution); Donckier 1899:612 (catalog).

Dactylispa trifida (Chapuis). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog); Gestro 1902b:150 (faunal list), 1909(1910):148 (faunal list); Maulik 1916:576 (museum


list); Uhmann 1928f:397 (faunal list), 1934c:3 (redescription), 1943d:206 (sculpture), 1948b:73 (noted), 1956d:509 (synonymy); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types).

Dactylispa flavolimbata Gestro 1909(1910):138 (type: Borneo, Quop, Kutcing, MCSN). Weise 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog), 1922b:78 (noted); Uhmann 1954n:516 (distribution).

Dactylispa perroteti flavolimbata Gestro. Uhmann 1954b:21 (key), 1954n:516 (noted), 1956d: 510 (nomenclature), 1958e:307 (catalog), 1964a:475 (catalog).

Dactylispa xanthospila picipes Uhmann 1935g:149 (type: Indonesia, Java, Zuid Banjoemas, Koebangkangkoeng, depository unknown). Uhmann 1956d:508 (noted); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Dactylispa malayana Gestro 1909(1910):139 (type: Borneo, Kutcing, MCSN). Weise 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog), 1922b:78 (noted), 1924:83 (distribution); Maulik 1916: 575 (museum list), 1919:575 (distribution); Uhmann 1938d:437 (distribution).

Dactylispa perroteti malayana Gestro. Uhmann 1949b:670 (distribution), 1953h:90 (faunal list), 1954b:20 (key), 1956d:508 (noted), 1958e:307 (catalog), 1964a:475 (catalog).

Dactylispa xanthospila Gestro. Uhmann 1935g:149 (misidentification), 1949b:670 (correction), 1956d:511 (correction). Distribution: India (Tamil Nadu, West Bengal), Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Sumatra), Malaysia, Philippines (Palawan). Food plant: Grass (Poaceae) (Uhmann 1955b).

Dactylispa pertenuis Uhmann 1960b Dactylispa pertenuis Uhmann 1960b:70 (type: Madagascar, Mt. Tsaratanana, ZUAC). Uhmann


Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa piceomaculata Gressitt 1939a Dactylispa piceomaculata Gressitt 1939a:179 (type: China, Kwangtung, Loh-fau Shan, ICRI).. Distribution: China (Kiangsi, Kwangtung). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa pici Uhmann 1934a Dactylispa pici Uhmann 1934a:28 (type: Vietnam, Tonkin, Hoa-Binh, MNHN). Uhmann

1940h:127 (noted), 1945-1948:179 (sculpture), 1954b:30 (key), 1958e:308 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:459 (faunal list); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:931 (China species); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:385 (types); Chen et al. 1986:613 (China species); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list); Kimoto 1999:141 (southeast Asia species); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) pici pici Uhmann. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Dactylispa marginicollis Gressitt 1939:203 (type: China, Kwangtung, Tai-yong, USNM).


Gressitt 1950:122 (China species); Uhmann 1958e:300 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:927 (China species); Chen et al. 1986:316 (synonymy); Staines & Staines 1997:13 (types).

Dactylispa marginicollis borealis L. Medvedev 1973:884 (type: Russia, depository unknown). Dactylispa (Triplispa) pici borealis L. Medvedev. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Distribution: China (Fukien, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Kiangsi, Kwangtung, Yunnan), Russia, Vietnam. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa picticornis Gestro 1909b Dactylispa picticornis Gestro 1909b:125 (type: Madagascar, MCSN). Weise 1910d:502 (faunal

list), 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:873 (noted), 1958e:308 (catalog), 1960b:76 (redescription), 1960e:263 (faunal list), 1964a:475 (catalog); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types).


Dactylispa pilosa T’an & Kung 1961 Dactylispa pilosa T’an & Kung 1961:469 (type: China, Yunnan, IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto

1963b:931 (noted); Chen et al. 1986:271 (China species); Yang & Sun 1991:60 (types); Kimoto 1999:142 (southeast Asia species); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Distribution: China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan), Vietnam. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa pilosula Uhmann 1936a Dactylispa pilosula Uhmann 1936a:445 (type: Congo, MRAC, DEI). Uhmann 1942a:24 (noted),

1945-1948:188 (type), 1953b:25 (distribution), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:172 (Africa species), 1958e:308 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:385 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).


Dactylispa pitapada Maulik 1919 Dactylispa pitapada Maulik 1919:212 (type: India, Madras, Nilgiri Hills, BMNH). Uhmann

1958e:308 (catalog); Basu 1986:154 (faunal list), 1999:183 (distribution). Dicladispa pitapada (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa pitapada nathani Uhmann 1964d:737 (type: India, Nilgiri Hills, Devala, NHMB).

Distribution: India (Kerala, Tamil Nadu). Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa plagiata Weise 1905d Dactylispa plagiata Weise 1905d:248 (type: New Guinea, ZMHB). Gestro 1907:83 (museum

list); Weise 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog); Uhmann 1945-1948:180 (sculpture), 1954b:30 (key), 1958e:308 (catalog), 1964a:475 (catalog); Gressitt 1957b:317 (South Pacific species), 1960a:90 (New Guinea species), 1960b:708 (New Guinea species).


Dactylispa planispina Gressitt 1950 Dactylispa planispina Gressitt 1950:125 (type: China, NW Fukien, Ta-chu-lan, ICRI). Uhmann

1954a:196 (faunal list), 1954b:34 (key), 1958e:308 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:459 (faunal list); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:931 (China species); Würmli 1976c:311 (noted); Staines & Staines 1997:17 (types); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list).

Dactylispa (Platypriella) planispina Gressitt. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog). Distribution: China (Fukien, Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa platyacantha (Gestro 1897b) Hispa platyacantha Gestro 1897b:126 (type: Burma, MNHN, MCSN). Donckier 1899:609

(catalog); Gestro 1899b:227 (noted); Würmli 1976c:311 (noted). Dactylispa platyacantha (Gestro). Weise 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Maulik 1919:

191 (India species); Uhmann 1938f:227 (distribution), 1958e:308 (catalog); Gressitt 1939a:181 (distribution), 1939b:205 (distribution), 1950:126 (China species) 1953b:126 (distribution); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:931 (China species); Würmli 1976c:311 (noted); Kimoto 1999:142 (southeast Asia species); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1998:41 (faunal list), 1999a:345 (faunal list); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list).

Dactylispa (Platypriella) platyacantha (Gestro). Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog). Dactylispa platycantha (Gestro) (sic). Kimoto 2005:103 (lapsus calami, faunal list).

Distribution: China (Fukien, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hunan, Kiangsi, Kwangtung, Yunnan), Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa platycanthoides Kimoto 2001 Dactylispa platycanthoides Kimoto 2001:69 (type: Nepal, Lipshiba Kharka, KUEC). Kimoto

2005:103 (faunal list). Dactylispa (Platypriella) platycanthoides Kimoto. Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:489 (faunal list). Distribution: Nepal. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa polita Chen & T’an 1961 Dactylispa polita Chen & T’an 1961:469 (type: China, Yunnan, IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto

1963b:931 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:60 (types); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog).


Distribution: China (Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa postica (Gestro 1885) Hispa postica Gestro 1885:175 (type: Indonesia, Celebes, Kandari, MCSN). Donckier 1899:610

(catalog). Dactylispa postica (Gestro). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog);

Gressitt 1957b:317 (South Pacific species); Uhmann 1958e:308 (catalog), 1960c:23 (faunal list), 1964a:475 (catalog).

Distribution: Indonesia (Celebes). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa pradhana Maulik 1919 Dactylispa pradhana Maulik 1919:244 (type: India, Sikkim, Gopaldhara, BMNH). Uhmann

1958e:308 (catalog); Würmli 1975b:371 (faunal list); Kimoto & Takizawa 1983:95 (faunal list); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:345 (faunal list); Kimoto 2005:103 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:488 (faunal list).

Dicladispa pradhana (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: India (Sikkim), Nepal.


Dactylispa praefica Weise 1897 Dactylispa praefica Weise 1897:135 (type: India, Belgaum; Kanara, BMNH, ZMHB). Donckier

1899:610 (catalog); Weise 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog); Maulik 1919:220 (India species); Uhmann 1954b:25 (key), 1958e:308 (catalog); L. Medvedev 1992a:34 (faunal list); Basu 1999:183 (distribution); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:345 (faunal list); Kimoto 2005:103 (faunal list); Borowiec & Świętojańska 2007:282 (distribution); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:488 (faunal list).

Dicladispa praefica (Weise). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: India (Karnataka, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal), Nepal.


Dactylispa praegracilis Uhmann 1956a Dactylispa praegracilis Uhmann 1956a:61 (type: Indonesia, Bali, Klunbung, ZMAN). Uhmann

1958e:308 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:385 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Indonesia (Bali). Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa prasastha Maulik 1919 Dactylispa prasastha Maulik 1919:189 (type: Burma, Karen Hills; Maymyo, BMNH). Uhmann

1958e:308 (catalog); Kimoto 1999:142 (southeast Asia species). Dicladispa prasastha (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Myanmar, Thailand. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa pretiosula Péringuey 1908 Dactylispa pretiosula Péringuey 1908:337 (type: South Africa, Natal, Malvern, SAMC). Weise

1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Uhmann 1934b:392 (museum list), 1954f:49 (faunal list), 1955h:170 (Africa species), 1956b:411 (noted), 1956f:341 (catalog), 1958e:308 (catalog).

Distribution: Congo, South Africa, Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa protuberance T’an 1982 Dactylispa (Triplispa) protuberance T’an 1982:39 (type: China, Guangxi, Longsheng, TMNH).

Yang & Sun 1991:59 (types); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list). Dactylispa (Triplispa) protuberance Tan. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog).

Distribution: China (Guangxi). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa provida Weise 1909 Dactylispa provida Weise 1909:116 (type: Madagascar, Mont d’Ambre, ZMHB). Weise

1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:873 (noted), 1954i:54 (distribution), 1958e:309 (catalog), 1960b:72 (redescription), 1960e:263 (faunal list), 1964a:475 (catalog), 1964c:172 (faunal list).


Dactylispa puberula (Chapuis 1876) Hispa puberula Chapuis 1876:xxvi (type: Philippines, Mindanao, ISNB). Gemminger & Harold

1876:3618 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:53 (noted); Donckier 1899:610 (catalog). Dactylispa puberula (Chapuis). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:96

(catalog); Schultze 1916:102 (faunal list); Gestro 1917:430 (faunal list), 1922:104 (faunal list); Uhmann 1930-1932:53 (museum list), 1933a:74 (faunal list), 1945-1948:179 (sculpture), 1954b:29 (key), 1958e:309 (catalog), 1964(1965):252 (faunal list).

Distribution: Philippines (Mindanao, Samar). Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa pubescens Chen & T’an 1962 Dactylispa pubescens Chen & T’an 1962:120 (replacement name). Hua 2002:291 (faunal list);

Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Dactylispa aureopilosa Chen & T’an 1961:480 (type: China, Yunnan, IZAS); (homonym of

Uhmann 1930f:167). Gressitt & Kimoto 1963b:931 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:60 (types). Distribution: China (Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa pubicollis (Chapuis 1877) Hispa pubicollis Chapuis 1877 (type: Africa, Cap. Bon. Spei., ISNB). Péringuey 1898:119

(faunal list); Donckier 1899:610 (catalog). Dactylispa pubicollis (Chapuis). Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:100

(catalog); Gestro 1905b:524 (faunal list), 1911b:30 (noted); Uhmann 1931c:5 (noted), 1931g:82, 156 (museum list, key), 1931i:869 (noted), 1934b:393 (museum list), 1935b:122 (museum list), 1936a:447 (key), 1936d:411 (noted), 1937g:376 (museum list), 1938c:115 (museum list), 1942a:17 (noted), 1953b:25 (distribution), 1953f:134 (pupa, host plant), 1954f:49 (faunal list), 1954h:186 (West Africa species), 1955c:244 (distribution), 1955g:457 (museum list), 1955h:167 (Africa species), 1956f:341 (catalog), 1956g:79 (faunal list), 1956i:391 (museum list), 1957e:338 (faunal list), 1957j:125 (faunal list), 1958e:309 (catalog), 1960d:375 (faunal list), 1961a:43 (noted), 1963e:252 (museum list), 1964a:475 (catalog), 1967c:257 (faunal list), 1968a:364 (faunal list); Gomes Alves 1951:185 (distribution); Tiberghien 1976:180 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:61 (host plants).

Dactylispa pubicollis maynei Uhmann 1931c:5 (type: Cameroon, DEI). Uhmann 1931g:85 (museum list), 1931i:870 (noted), 1936a:448 (faunal list), 1937g:376 (museum list), 1942a:18 (faunal list), 1948c:28 (noted), 1949b:678 (noted), 1953b:26 (distribution), 1954f:51 (faunal list), 1954h:186 (West Africa species), 1955h:166 (Africa species), 1956i:392 (museum list), 1958e:310 (catalog), 1961a:44 (distribution), 1962b:361 (faunal list), 1963b:474 (museum list), 1964a:476 (catalog), 1966b:217 (faunal list); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Dactylispa pubicollis metallica Uhmann 1936a:448 (type: Stanleyville, MRAC; Buhunde, Matenda, MRAC; Okondo, MRAC; Lubutu, MRAC; Elfenbeinkuste, Dimbroko, MNHN). Uhmann 1936d:412 (noted), 1942a:18 (faunal list), 1949b:682 (type), 1953b:26 (distribution), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1954h:186 (West Africa species), 1956i:391 (museum list), 1958e:310 (catalog); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Hispa dissimilis Péringuey 1898:123 (type: South Africa, Natal, Malvern, Port Shepstone, SMAC). Donckier 1899:604 (catalog); Uhmann 1931g:84 (synonymy).

Dactylispa dissimilis (Péringuey). Weise 1901:240 (transfer), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Gestro 1905b:550 (catalog); Uhmann 1931g:84 (synonymy), 1931i:870 (synonymy).

Dactylispa contribulis Weise 1899:266 (type: Kwai, ZMHB). Gestro 1901b:440 (noted),


1905b:523 (faunal list), 1914:285 (faunal list); Weise 1910c:242 (faunal list), 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog), 1926:29 (museum list); Uhmann 1928g:79 (faunal list), 1930h:132 (noted), 1931g:83 (synonymy).

Dactylispa andreinii Gestro 1904a:176 (type: Eritrea, Sabarguma; Ginda; MCSN). Gestro 1905b:550 (catalog), 1914:283 (synonymy); Weise 1911a:63 (catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Uhmann 1930h:132 (synonymy), 1931g:83 (synonymy).

Distribution: Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Portuguese Guinea, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe. Food plants: Commeliniaceae (Uhmann 1953f); Scleria sp. (Cyperaceae), Setaria chevalieri Stapf., S. megaphylla T. Durand & Schinz, Sporobolus pyramidalis Beauv. (Poaceae), Urena lobata (Malvaceae), Marantochloa sp. (Marantaceae), Jussiaea sp. (Onagraceae), Impatiens sp. (Balsaminaceae), Aeschynomene (Fabaceae) (Uhmann 1961a).

Dactylispa pugnax (Gestro 1897b) Hispa pugnax Gestro 1897b:134 (type: Upper Burma, MCSN). Donckier 1899:610 (catalog);

Würmli 1975b:371 (faunal list). Dactylispa pugnax (Gestro). Gestro 1907:74 (transfer); Weise 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:98

(catalog); Maulik 1919:209 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:310 (catalog), 1963b:154 (museum list); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:97 (Bangladesh species); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog).

Dicladispa pugnax (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Bangladesh, India (Darjeeling, Sikkim), Myanmar. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa puncticollis Gestro 1905b Dactylispa puncticollis Gestro 1905b:527 (type: Congo, Fernand Vaz, MCSN). Weise 1911a:68

(catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog); Uhmann 1931g:79, 154 (museum list, key), 1931i:867 (noted), 1935b:122 (comparative note), 1949b:675 (noted), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1954h:186 (key), 1955h:156 (Africa species), 1956f:341 (catalog), 1958e:310 (catalog), 1961a:87 (distribution), 1964a:476 (catalog), 1968a:364 (faunal list); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:61 (host plants).

Distribution: Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, South Africa. Food plant: Theobroma cacao L. (Sterculiaceae) (Uhmann 1949b).

Dactylispa pungens (Boheman 1858) Hispa pungens Boheman 1858:202 (type: Hong Kong, NHRS). Gemminger & Harold 1876:

3618 (catalog); Donckier 1899:610 (catalog); Gestro 1909d:561 (catalog). Dactylispa (Triplispa) pungens (Boheman). Weise 1897:150 (noted); Winkler 1929:1353

(catalog); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Dactylispa pungens (Boheman). Gestro 1909d:561 (noted); Weise 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:

98 (catalog); Liu 1936:254 (China species); Gressitt 1939a:175 (distribution), 1950:127 (China species); Uhmann 1954b:31 (key), 1958e:311 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto


1963a:931 (China species); Chen et al. 1986:614 (China species); Kimoto 1999:143 (southeast Asia species); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); T’an 2002:460 (faunal list); Aston 2009:4 (photo).

Dactylispa atracumina Gressitt 1938:326 (type: China, Hainan Island, Ta Hau, CASC). Gressitt 1950:127 (synonymy).

Distribution: China (Hainan, Hong Kong, Kiangsi, Yunnan), Vietnam. Food plant: Burretiodendron sp. (Tilaceae) (Hua 2002).

Dactylispa pusilla Weise 1905g Dactylispa pusilla Weise 1905g:103 (type: India, Mahe, ZMHB, NMNH). Weise 1911a:68

(catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog); Maulik 1919:179 (India species); Uhmann 1953h:90 (faunal list), 1954b:20 (key), 1954o:175 (faunal list), 1958e:311 (catalog), 1963b:154 (museum list); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types); Würmli 1976c:304 (noted); Lopatin 1985:771 (faunal list); Gruev 1988:167 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog). Distribution: Afghanistan, India (Assam, Madras), Iran, Nepal. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa puwena Chen & T’an 1961 Dactylispa puwena Chen & T’an 1961:470 (type: China, Yunnan, IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto


Dactylispa quinquespinosa T’an 1982 Dactylispa (Triplispa) quinquespinosa T’an 1982:40 (type: China, Yunnan, Menga,

Xishuangbana, TMNH). Yang & Sun 1991:59 (types); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Distribution: China (Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa ramuligera (Chapuis 1877) Hispa ramuligera Chapuis 1877:53 (type: Malacca, ISNB). Gestro 1897b:85 (distribution),

1901b:438 (noted); Donckier 1899:610 (catalog). Dactylispa ramuligera (Chapuis). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:98

(catalog); Gestro 1920:399 (faunal list); Uhmann 1930b:2 (key), 1934c:2 (noted), 1935g:149 (faunal list), 1938d:427 (distribution), 1945-1948:179 (sculpture), 1954b:34 (key), 1958e:311 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:459 (faunal list); Kimoto 1999:143 (southeast Asia species); Mohamedsaid 2004:182 (Malaysian species); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) ramuligera (Chapuis). Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Hispa bellula Gestro 1897b:88 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Monte Singalang, MCSN). Donckier

1899:603 (catalog).


Dactylispa bellula (Gestro). Weise 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog); Uhmann 1930b:2 (key), 1934c:2 (synonymy). Distribution: China (Yunnan), Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Malacca, Sumatra), Laos, Malaysia.

Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa redunca Gestro 1905b Dactylispa redunca Gestro 1905b:526 (type: Fernando Poo, Moka, MCSN). Weise 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:100 (catalog); Uhmann 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1954h:189 (West Africa species),

1955h:165 (Africa species), 1958e:311 (catalog). Distribution: Equatorial Guinea. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa reitteri Spaeth 1933c Dactylispa reitteri Spaeth 1933c:136 (type: China, Sikang, MMUE, DEI). Uhmann 1939a:7

(comparative note), 1948c:22 (sculpture), 1954b:27 (key), 1958e:311 (catalog), 1961a:34 (noted), 1964a:476 (catalog); Gressitt 1950:127 (China species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:931 (China species); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:386 (types); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Staines 2005:48 (Spaeth species list); Ulmen et al. 2010:13 (types).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) reitteri Spaeth. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Distribution: China (Sikang). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa ritsemae (Chapuis 1877) Hispa ritsemae Chapuis 1877:55 (type: Madagascar, ISNB). Donckier 1899:610 (catalog). Hispa ritzemai Chapuis (sic). Alluaud 1900:329 (lapsus calami, faunal list). Dactylispa ritsemae (Chapuis). Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1910d:443, 502 (faunal list), 1911a:68

(catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Gestro 1909b:276 (Madagascar species); Uhmann 1931i:874 (noted), 1948b:74 (noted), 1954j:2 (redescription), 1958e:311 (catalog), 1960b:84 (faunal list), 1960e:263 (faunal list), 1964a:476 (catalog), 1964c:172 (faunal list).


Dactylispa ruandana Uhmann 1953b Dactylispa ruandana Uhmann 1953b:26 (type: Congo, N. Lac Kivi, Rwankwi, MRAC). Uhmann

1954f:59 (faunal list), 1954l:1114 (museum list), 1955c:244 (distribution), 1955h:159 (Africa species), 1958e:311 (catalog), 1961a:44 (distribution), 1964a:476 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:387 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Rwanda. Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa rubida Gestro 1909 Dactylispa rubida Gestro 1909:127 (type: Madagascar, Ankarahitra, MCSN). Gestro 1909b:283

(distribution); Weise 1909:118 (noted), 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:312 (catalog), 1964a:476 (catalog).


Dactylispa rubus (Gestro 1892) Hispa rubus Gestro 1892:1019 (type: Luglio, Agosto, Kelesi, MCSN, ISNB). Gestro 1895:706

(distribution), 1897d:454 (distribution); Donckier 1899:610 (catalog). Dactylispa rubus (Gestro). Weise 1897:150 (noted), 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog);

Gestro 1907:83 (museum list); Gressitt 1957b:317 (South Pacific species), 1960a:90 (New Guinea species), 1960b:708 (New Guinea species); Uhmann 1958e:312 (catalog), 1964a:476 (catalog); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types).

Distribution: New Guinea, Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa rufescens Shirôzu 1957 Dactylispa rufescens Shirôzu 1957:55 (type: Madschurei, Onkou, depository unknown). Uhmann

1964a:476 (catalog). Distribution: Japan. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa rugata Gestro 1907 Dactylispa rugata Gestro 1907:74 (type: Borneo, Kina Balu, HNHM). Gestro 1909(1910):150

(faunal list); Weise 1911a:68 (catalog); 1911b:97 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:312 (catalog); Mohamedsaid 2004:182 (Malaysian species).

Distribution: Malaysia (Borneo). Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa rungweae Uhmann 1964d Dactylispa rungweae Uhmann 1964d:732 (type: S. Tanganjika, Rungwe-Berge, NHMB).

Gaedike & Döbler 1971:387 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Tanzania. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa sadonensis Maulik 1919 Dactylispa sadonensis Maulik 1919:193 (type: Burma, Sadon, Myitkyina, NZSI?). Uhmann

1958e:312 (catalog); Basu 1999:180 (distribution). Dicladispa sadonensis (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Myanmar. Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa sambavae Uhmann 1964c Dactylispa sambavae Uhmann 1964c:173 (type: East Madagascar, Sambava, ZUAC). Gaedike &

Döbler 1971:388 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa sarawakensis Uhmann 1930 Dactylispa armata Uhmann (not Guérin-Méneville) 1930b:2 (type: Borneo, DEI). Uhmann

1934d:2 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:365 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Dactylispa sarawakensis Uhmann 1943:210 (replacement name for Dactylispa armata Uhmann 1930, not Dactylispa armata Guérin-Méneville 1841). Uhmann 1954b:31 (key), 1958e:312 (catalog), 1961c:509 (noted); Staines 1997b:415 (noted).

Dactylispa cladophora (Guérin-Méneville 1841). Gestro 1885:176 (misidentification). Uhmann 1958e:312 (correction).

Dactylispa spinosa (Weber). Gestro 1897:86 (misidentification). Uhmann 1958e:312 (correction).

Distribution: Malaysia. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa sauteri Uhmann 1927d Dactylispa sauteri Uhmann 1927d:115 (type: Taiwan, Paroe, DEI?). Chûjô 1933:325 (Taiwan

species); Gressitt 1939c:138 (distribution); Uhmann 1940h:127 (noted), 1954a:189 (faunal list), 1954b:23 (key), 1958e:312 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list); Kimoto 1970:177 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:388 (types); T’an & Yu 1992:607 (faunal list), 1993:353 (faunal list); Kimoto & Chu 1996:131 (faunal list); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Lee & Cheng 2007:158 (Taiwan species); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:384 (catalog).

Dactylispa sauteri sauteri Uhmann. Gressitt 1950:128 (China species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:931 (China species).

Dactylispa piceomaculata Gressitt 1939a:179 (type: China, Kwangtung, ICRI). Gressitt 1939b: 205 (distribution); Staines & Staines 1997:17 (types)

Dactylispa sauteri piceomaculata Gressitt. Gressitt 1950:128 (China species); Uhmann 1954a: 191 (faunal list), 1958e:312 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:931 (China species).

Distribution: China (Fukien, Hunan, Hupeh, Kiangsi, Kwangtung), Taiwan. Food plants: Sinocalamus sp., Imperata cylindrica (L.) Beauv. (Hua 2002); Miscanthus sp. (Lee & Cheng 2007).

Dactylispa schereri Würmli 1976c Dactylispa schereri Würmli 1976c:309 (type: India, Assam, Kaziranga, NHMB). Distribution: India (Assam). Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa schneei Uhmann 1928g Dactylispa schneei Uhmann 1928g:75 (type: South of Gologolo-Geb, ZMHB). Uhmann

1931i:859 (type), 1954b:28 (noted), 1954c:51 (museum list), 1955h:158 (Africa species), 1958e:312 (catalog); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: German East Africa. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa schoutedeni Uhmann 1937g Dactylispa schoutedeni Uhmann 1936d:412 (nomen nudum). Dactylispa schoutedeni Uhmann 1937g:376 (type: Congo, Sandoa, MRAC). Uhmann 1953b:28

(distribution), 1954f:51 (faunal list), 1955h:164 (Africa species), 1958e:312 (catalog), 1962b:361 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:388 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Congo.


Dactylispa scutellaris Chen & T’an 1961 Dactylispa scutellaris Chen & T’an 1961:474 (type: China, Yunnan, IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto

1963b:931 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:59 (types); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list). Dactylispa (Triplispa) scutellaris Chen & Tan. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog).


Dactylispa secura Weise 1922b Dactylispa secura Weise 1922b:79 (type: Madagascar, Mahatsinjo, NHRS, NMNH). Uhmann

1958e:312 (catalog), 1960e:263 (faunal list), 1964a:476 (catalog), 1964c:174 (faunal list); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types).


Dactylispa semecarpi Gressitt 1960 Dactylispa semecarpi Gressitt 1960b:708 (type: New Guinea, Kampong, Landbouw, BPBM).

Santiago-Blay 2004:61 (host plants). Distribution: New Guinea. Food plant: Semecarpus? sp. (Anacardiaceae) (Gressitt 1960).

Dactylispa seminigra Gestro 1906a Dactylispa seminigra Gestro 1906a:188 (type: Indonesia, Giava, Gede, MCSN). Weise 1911a:68

(catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:312 (catalog). Distribution: Indonesia (Java). Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa senegalensis Uhmann 1956g Dactylispa senegalensis Uhmann 1956g:75 (type: West Africa, Senegal, Saint Louis, MRAC).

Uhmann 1958e:313 (catalog), 1958f:490 (distribution), 1961a:44 (distribution), 1964a:476 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:389 (types); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa sericeicollis Gestro 1908 Dactylispa sericeicollis Gestro 1908:126 (type: Madagascar, Isole Comore, MCSN). Gestro

1909b:271 (distribution); Weise 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:873 (noted), 1958e:313 (catalog).


Dactylispa serrulata Chen & T’an 1964 Dactylispa (Triplispa) serrulata Chen & T’an 1964:419 (type: China, Kiangsu, She-shan, IZAS).

Gressitt & Kimoto 1965:805 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:59 (types); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Distribution: China (Heilongjiang, Jiangsu), Taiwan.


Dactylispa setifera (Chapuis 1877) Hispa setifera Chapuis 1877:54 (type: Batchian, ISNB). Donckier 1899:610 (catalog). Dactylispa setifera (Chapuis 1877). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:97

(catalog); Uhmann 1934c:3 (redescription), 1939g:7 (redescription), 1953h:90 (noted), 1954b:23 (key), 1956d:512 (noted), 1958e:313 (catalog), 1960c:24 (faunal list), 1964a:476 (catalog); Gressitt 1957b:315 (South Pacific species); Chûjô 1964:311 (faunal list); Lu & Zhang 1990:134 (biology), 1993:203 (physiology); Zhang & Wen 1990:63 (morphology); Cox 1996a:171 (pupa); Huang 1997:331 (biology); Świętojańska et al. 2006:66 (noted).

Dactylispa setiyera (Chapuis) (sic). T’an 2002:459 (lapsus calami). Dactylispa setifera setifera (Chapuis). Hua 2002:291 (faunal list). Dactylispa setifera atra Chen & T’an 1961:470 (type: China, Yunnan, IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto

1963b:931 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:60 (types); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog). Distribution: China (Guizhou, Yunnan), Indonesia (Celebes), Thailand. Food plants: Oryza sativa L., Zea mays L., Triticum aestivum Lam. (Poaceae) (Hua 2002).


Dactylispa shira Basu & Saha 1977 Dactylispa shira Basu & Saha 1977:382 (type: India, West Bengal, Rangirum ZSI). Basu 1999:

186 (distribution); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog). Distribution: India (West Bengal).


Dactylispa sibutensis Achard 1917 Dactylispa sibutensis Achard 1917:68 (type: Fort Sibut, NMPC). Uhmann 1936a:448 (noted),

1936d:412 (museum list), 1937g:376 (museum list), 1953b:28 (distribution), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:164 (Africa species), 1958e:313 (catalog), 1961a:87 (distribution), 1967c:257 (faunal list); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list).

Dactylispa valida Uhmann 1931g:87 (type: Congo, Haut-Uelé, Abimva, MRAC). Uhmann 1931i:870 (noted), 1936a:448 (synonymy), 1947a:134 (type), 1964a:476 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:393 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa sicardi Weise 1909 Dactylispa sicardi Weise 1909:116 (type: Madagascar, Mont d’Ambre, ZHMB). Weise

1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:873 (noted), 1958e:313 (catalog), 1960b:76 (redescription), 1964a:476 (catalog).


Dactylispa sikorae (Duvivier 1891) Hispa sikorae Duvivier 1891:ccclxvi (type: Madagascar, Sikora, ISNB, ZMHB). Donckier

1899:611 (catalog); Alluaud 1900:329 (faunal list). Dactylispa sikorae (Duvivier). Gestro 1909b:280 (Madagascar species); Weise 1897:148 (noted),

1911a:68 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:875 (noted), 1958e:313 (catalog), 1960b:85 (redescription), 1964a:476 (catalog).

Dactylispa sicorae (Duvivier) (sic). Weise 1910d:503 (lapsus calami, faunal list). Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa silvana Uhmann 1960 Dactylispa silvana Uhmann 1960:69 (type: Madagascar, Mt. Tsaratanana, ZUAC). Uhmann

1960e:263 (faunal list), 1964a:476 (catalog), 1964c:174 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:389 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).



Dactylispa similis Chen & T’an 1985 Dactylispa similis Chen & T’an 1985:269 (type: China, Yunnan, Wenquan, IZAS). Yang & Sun

1991:59 (types); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list). Dactylispa (Platypriella) similis Chen & Tan. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog).


Dactylispa sinuispina Gressitt 1938 Dactylispa sinuispina Gressitt 1938:331 (type: China, Hainan, Ta Han, CASC). Gressitt

1939a:181 (distribution), 1939b:205 (distribution), 1950:129 (China species), 1953b:126 (distribution); Uhmann 1940h:127 (comparative note), 1954a:193 (faunal list), 1954b:28 (key), 1958e:313 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:932 (China species).

Distribution: China (Fukien, Hainan, Hunan, Kiangsi, Kwangtung). Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa sjoestedti Uhmann 1928a Dactylispa (Triplispa) sjoestedti Uhmann 1928a:102 (type: India, Trichinopolis, NHRS). Dactylispa sjoestedti Uhmann. Gressitt 1939a:181 (distribution), 1939b:205 (distribution),

1950:129 (China species); Uhmann 1958e:314 (catalog); Kalshoven 1957:12 (host plant); Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:932 (China species); Maddison 1993:367, 370, 374, 405 (host plant); T’an & Yu 1993:353 (faunal list); Cox 1996a:171 (pupa); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list); Świętojańska et al. 2006:66 (noted); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:61 (host plants); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog). Distribution: China (Kiangsi, Kwangtung, Kweichow, Yunnan), India. Food plants: Bambusa muliplex (Lour.) Raeusch., B. tuldoides Munro, B. sinospinosa McClure, Lingnania chungii McClure, L. cerocissima McClure, Sinobambusa tootsik (Mak.) Nakai (Gressitt 1950); Bambusa glaucescens (Willdenow) Siebold ex. Holttum (Maddison 1993) (Poaceae).

Dactylispa speciosissima Gestro 1919 Dactylispa speciosissima Gestro 1919:348 (type: Philippines, Luzon, N. Viscaya, Imugin,

MCSN). Gestro 1922:104 (faunal list); Uhmann 1933a:74 (Philippine species), 1958e:314 (catalog), 1964(1965):252 (faunal list).

Distribution: Philippines (Luzon). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa spectabilis Gestro 1914 Dactylispa (Triplispa) spectabilis Gestro 1914:75 (type: China, Yunnan, MCSN). Winkler

1929:1353 (catalog); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Dactylispa spectabilis Gestro. Liu 1936:254 (China species); Wu 1937:915 (faunal list); Gressitt

1950:130 (China species); Uhmann 1958e:314 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:933 (China species); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list).


Distribution: China (Hubei, Jiangxi, Yunnan). Food plant: Celastraceae (Hua 2002).

Dactylispa spinigera (Gyllenhal 1817) Hispa spinigera Gyllenhal 1817:4 (type: Sierra Leone, UZIU, NHRS). Schönherr 1817:3

(catalog); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Kraatz 1895:197 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:611 (catalog).

Dactylispa spinigera (Gyllenhal). Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog); Gestro 1905b:550 (catalog); Uhmann 1931g:158 (distribution), 1931i:860 (noted), 1936a:444 (faunal list), 1937g:375 (museum list), 1953i:1 (key), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1954h:188 (West Africa species), 1955c:244 (distribution), 1955h:160 (Africa species), 1956h:5 (museum list), 1957f:305 (museum list), 1958e:314 (catalog), 1960d:376 (faunal list), 1961a:44 (distribution), 1963e:252 (museum list), 1964a:476 (catalog), 1966b:217 (faunal list), 1967c:257 (faunal list), 1968a:364 (faunal list); Heinrichs & Barrion 2004:64 (pest status); Santiago-Blay 2004:61 (host plants).

Dactylispa gologoloensis Uhmann 1928g:77 (type: Gologolo-Gebirges, ZMHB). Uhmann 1931i:860 (noted), 1936a:445 (faunal list), 1936d:411 (museum list), 1937g:375 (museum list), 1953i:5 (key), 1954f:42 (synonymy); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

Food plant: Oryza sativa L. (Poaceae) (Uhmann 1961)

Dactylispa spinilboa Chen & T’an 1964 Dactylispa (Platypriella) spinilboa Chen & T’an 1964:420 (type: North Vietnam, IZAS).

Gressitt & Kimoto 1965:805 (noted); Chen et al. 1986:614 (China species); Yang & Sun 1991:59 (types); Kimoto 1999:144 (southeast Asia species); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog). Distribution: China (Yunnan), Vietnam.

Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa spinipes Weise 1905b Dactylispa spinipes Weise 1905b:119 (type: India, Nilgiri Hills, BMNH, ZMHB). Weise

1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Maulik 1919:182 (India species); Uhmann 1954b:23 (key), 1958e:314 (catalog), 1961b:49 (noted); Takizawa 1985a:4 (faunal list), 1985b:571 (faunal list), 1987:526 (faunal list); Basu 1986:154 (faunal list), 1999:179 (distribution).

Dicladispa spinipes (Weise). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa krishna Maulik 1919:181 (type: India, Bombay, Castle Rock; Madras, Nilgiri Hills,

NZSI?, BMNH). Uhmann 1958e:297 (catalog); Basu 1986:154 (faunal list), 1999:179 (distribution); Takizawa 1987:526 (synonymy). Dicladispa krishna (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: India (Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu), Thailand. Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa spinosa (Weber 1801) Hispa spinosa Weber 1801:65 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, ZHMB). Fabricius 1801b:58 (noted);

Illiger 1804b:169 (noted); Gyllenhal 1817:1 (noted); Schönherr 1817:3 (catalog); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:53 (noted); Gestro 1897b:86 (distribution); Donckier 1899:611 (catalog).

Dactylispa spinosa (Weber). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog), 1922b:78 (noted); Gestro 1902b:150 (faunal list), 1909(1910):148 (faunal list); Maulik 1915:379 (museum list), 1916:576 (museum list), 1919:10 (host plant); Uhmann 1945-1948:179 (sculpture), 1949b:670 (museum list), 1949f:29 (museum list), 1953b:28 (noted), 1953h:91 (faunal list), 1954b:25 (key), 1955d:11 (noted), 1956a:70 (pupa), 1958e:314 (catalog), 1960c:24 (faunal list), 1966c:321 (faunal list); Gressitt 1957a:315 (distribution), 1957b:315 (South Pacific species); Kalshoven 1957:12 (host plant); Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list); Würmli 1976c:312 (noted); Basu 1999:185 (distribution); Kimoto 1999:144 (southeast Asia species), 2005:103 (faunal list); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Mohamedsaid 2004:183 (Malaysian species); Santiago-Blay 2004:61 (host plants); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog).

Hispa discoidalis Chapuis 1877:54 (type: Indonesia, Celebes, ISNB). Donckier 1899:604 (catalog).

Dactylispa discoidalis Chapuis. Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1905b:118 (redescription), 1911a:65 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog), 1922b:79 (noted); Uhmann 1934c:4 (redescription), 1935g:148 (faunal list), 1938c:116 (distribution), 1939g:1 (redescription), 1945-1948:188 (synonymy), 1949b:670 (synonymy), 1958e:282 (catalog); Kalshoven 1951:761 (host plant); Reid 1998:301 (faunal list).

Hispa nigripennis Ritsema 1887:181 (not Motschulsky 1861) (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, NHRS). Gestro 1897b:51 (distribution), 1897c:176 (distribution).

Hispa nigripennis (Motschulsky). Gestro 1897:83 (misidentification). Hispa cariana Gestro 1890:27 (type: Burma, MCSN). Dactylispa cariana (Gestro). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog);

Maulik 1919:211 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:258 (catalog); Würmli 1976c:312 (synonymy).

Dicladispa cariana (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa (Triplispa) cariana (Gestro). Chen et al 1961:479 (distribution); Gressitt & Kimoto

1963b:931 (noted). Dactylispa sumatrana Weise 1911c:172 (replacement name for Dactylispa nigripennis Ritsema).

Weise 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Uhmann 1928b:61 (faunal list), 1931f:225 (museum list), 1934c:5 (noted), 1935g:149 (faunal list), 1939g:9 (noted), 1954b:24 (key), 1958e:317 (catalog), 1960c:17 (faunal list), 1964a:477 (catalog); Kalshoven 1957:12 (host plant); Würmli 1976c:312 (synonymy):Reid 1997:43 (faunal list); Mohamedsaid 2000a:358 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:62 (host plants).

Dactylispa variabilis Maulik 1919:211 (type: India, Sikkim, Singla; Assam; Burma, Ruby Mines; Tenasserim, Karen Hills, NZSI?). Gestro 1920:397 (faunal list); Uhmann 1958e:319 (catalog); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:97 (Bangladesh species); Würmli 1975b:371 (faunal list); Takizawa 1989:327 (faunal list); Basu 1999:182 (distribution);


Kimoto 1999:145 (synonymy); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:345 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:489 (faunal list).

Dicladispa variabilis (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa tonkinea Uhmann 1930h:135 (type: Vietnam, Tonkin, Ha Lang, DEI). Uhmann

1934a:30 (distribution), 1934c:5 (synonymy), 1939:5 (synonymy); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:392 (types).

Hispa discoidalis Baly 1888a:664 (not Chapuis) (type: Burma, Teinzo, MCSN). Donckier 1899:602 (catalog).

Hispa balyi Gestro 1890:250 (replacement name for Hispa discoidalis Baly). Gestro 1897b:82 (distribution), 1899c:325 (distribution); Uhmann 1934c:4 (synonymy), 1939g:5 (faunal list).

Dactylispa balyi (Gestro). Weise 1897:149 (noted); Gestro 1909(1910):149 (faunal list), 1920:397 (faunal list); Weise 1911a:64 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog); Maulik 1919:210 (India species); Uhmann 1928e:375 (faunal list), 1928f:397 (faunal list), 1929a:149 (faunal list), 1938c:116 (museum list), 1939g:5 (redescription), 1954a:211 (key), 1954b:25 (key), 1958e:282 (catalog); Gressitt 1938:332 (faunal list), 1939a:175 (distribution), 1939b:206 (noted), 1950:113 (China species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:925 (China species); Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list); Würmli 1976c:312 (synonymy); Kalshoven 1981:458 (host plants); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:60 (host plants).

Distribution: Bangladesh, China (Fukien, Guangxi, Hainan, Kwangsi, Kwangtung, Yunnan), India (Assam, Sikkim, West Bengal), Indonesia (Borneo, Celebes, Java, Sarawak, Sumatra), Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines (Palawan), Thailand, Vietnam. Food plants: Saccharum officinarum L. (Zehntner 1894); Panicum palmifolium J. König, Rottboellia exaltata L., Zea mays L. (Uhmann 1956); Imperata cylindrica (L.) Beauv., Saccharum spontaneum L. (Kalshoven 1957); Phragmites communis Trin. (Hua 2002) (Poaceae).

Dactylispa spinulifera Uhmann 1931g Dactylispa spinulifera Uhmann 1931g:149 (type: Assinie, DEI). Uhmann 1931i:871 (noted),

1936d:412 (museum list), 1953b:28 (distribution), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1954h:190 (West Africa species), 1955h:175 (Africa species), 1958e:315 (catalog), 1966b:218 (faunal list), 1968a:364 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:390 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Togo. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa spinulosa (Gyllenhal 1817) Hispa spinulosa Gyllenhal 1817:3 (type: Sierra Leone, UZIU). Schönherr 1817:3 (catalog);

Guérin-Méneville 1841:8 (comparative note); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Kraatz 1895:196; Gestro 1898c:714 (distribution), 1901b:438 (noted); Donckier 1899:611 (catalog).

Hispa (Podispa) spinulosa Gyllenhal. Chapuis 1877:51 (noted).


Dactylispa spinulosa (Gyllenhal). Weise 1897:140 (noted), 1910c:241 (faunal list), 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog), 1915:182 (faunal list), 1926:29 (museum list); Gestro 1905b:521 (faunal list), 1911b:27 (noted), 1914:282 (faunal list); Achard 1917:67 (distribution); Uhmann 1928g:74 (faunal list), 1930f:169 (museum list), 1931g:157 (noted), 1931i:855 (noted), 1935i:177 (faunal list), 1936a:443 (faunal list), 1936d:410 (museum list), 1937g:374 (noted), 1942a:13 (faunal list), 1954f:28, 52 (faunal list), 1954h:188 (West Africa species), 1954l:1114 (museum list), 1955h:158 (Africa species), 1956f:337 (museum list), 1956i:386 (comparative note), 1957j:125 (faunal list), 1958e:315 (catalog), 1960d:376 (faunal list), 1961a:45 (noted), 1963e:253 (museum list), 1964a:477 (catalog), 1966b:218 (faunal list), 1967c:257 (faunal list), 1968a:365 (faunal list), 1969:299 (faunal list); Gomes Alves 1949:114 (distribution); Risbec 1950a:389 (host plant), 1950b:106 (noted); Grist & Lever 1969:227 (noted); Tiberghien 1976:180 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:61 (host plants); Mercadier et al. 2009:34 (host plant).

Dactylispa spinulosa spinulosa (Gyllenhal). Medler 1980:263 (faunal list). Hispa sp. Gyllenhal 1813:450 (noted); Uhmann 1958e:315 (correction). Hispa armata Guérin-Méneville 1841:10 (type: Senegal, MNHN?). Gemminger & Harold

1876:3617 (catalog):Duvivier 1892b:379 (faunal list); Kraatz 1895:196 (synonymy); Donckier 1899:602 (catalog); Gestro 1901b:438 (noted); Uhmann 1966d:277 (noted).

Hispa (Podispa) armata Guérin-Méneville. Chapuis 1877:51 (noted); Kraatz 1895:196 (faunal list).

Dactylispa spinulosa salaamensis Weise 1897:140 (type: Dar-es-Salaam, ZMHB). Weise 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog); Uhmann 1928g:74 (faunal list), 1931i:858 (noted); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list).

Hispa sobrina Péringuey 1898:121 (type: South Africa, Natal, Malvern, SAMC). Donckier 1899:611 (catalog); Weise 1901:240 (synonymy), 1904c:457 (synonymy).

Dactylispa similis Achard 1917:67 (type: Fort Crampel, NMPC). Uhmann 1931i:858 (synonymy).

Dactylispa vicina Uhmann 1928g:74 (type: East Unguu; South East Usagara; East of Gologolo, depository unknown). Uhmann 1931i:857 (museum list); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Dactylispa spinulosa vicina Uhmann. Uhmann 1942a:13 (faunal list), 1953b:29 (distribution), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:158 (Africa species), 1958e:316 (catalog); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Dactylispa spinulosa rufigaster Uhmann 1956i:386 (type: Congo, Katanga, Katompe, depository unknown). Uhmann 1958e:316 (catalog); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Guinea, GuineaBissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda. Food plants: Millet (Risbec 1950a); Setaria sphacelata (Schum.) Stapf. & C. E. Hubb., Sporobolus pyramidalis Beauv., Panicum maximum Jacq., Loudetia arundinacea Hochst. ex. Steud., L. simulans C. E. Hubb., Urelytrum giganteum Pilg., Imperata cylindrica Beauv. (Poaceae), Jussiaea repens (Onagraceae) (Uhmann 1961a); Rottboellia exaltata L. (Poaceae) (Tiberghien 1976).


Dactylispa sternalis Chen & T’an 1964 Dactylispa (Triplispa) sternalis Chen & T’an 1964:418 (type: China, Kwangsi, Lungsheng,

IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto 1965:804 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:59 (types); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Distribution: China (Guangxi). Food plant: Bambusa sp. (Poaceae) (Hua 2002).

Dactylispa stoetzneri Uhmann 1954a Dactylispa stoetzneri Uhmann 1954a:204 (type: China, Fukien, ZFMR, NHRS). Uhmann

1958e:316 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1965:933 (China species); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Dactylispa stoetzneri stoetzneri Uhmann. Hua 2002:291 (faunal list). Dactylispa (Triplispa) stoetzneri stoetzneri. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Dactylispa stoetzneri diannana Chen & T’an 1964:419 (type: China, Yunnan, Zi-shuang-banna,

IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto 1965:805 (noted); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) stoetzneri yunnana Chen & T’an 1964:419 (type: China, Yunnan, Xishuang-ban-na, IZAS). Yang & Sun 1991:59 (types). Distribution: China (Fukien, Yunnan).

Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa subcapicola Uhmann 1962a Dactylispa subcapicola Uhmann 1962a:226 (type: South Africa, Natal, C.N., Durban, SAMC).



Dactylispa subcorvina Uhmann 1960b Dactylispa subcorvina Uhmann 1960b:68 (type: Madagascar, Andohahelo, ZUAC). Uhmann

1960e:263 (faunal list), 1962a:226 (comparative note), 1964a:477 (catalog), 1964c:174 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:391 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).


Dactylispa subpallipes Uhmann 1954f Dactylispa subpallipes Uhmann 1954f:54 (type: Congo, Parc National de l’Upemba, MRAC).

Uhmann 1955h:168 (Africa species), 1958e:316 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:391 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).



Dactylispa subquadrata (Baly 1874) Hispa subquadrata Baly 1874:216 (type: Japan, BMNH). Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618

(catalog); Gorham 1885:286 (faunal list); Schönfeldt 1887:156 (Japan species); Donckier 1899:611 (catalog); Gestro 1899b:227 (noted); Liu 1936:254 (China species); Staines & Staines 1999:526 (Baly species list).

Dactylispa subquadrata (Baly). Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog); Uhmann 1928c:37 (noted), 1949a:7 (key), 1954b:34 (key), 1958e:316 (catalog), 1964a:477 (catalog); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Matsumura 1931:79, 115 (faunal list), 1931:234 (faunal list); Yuasa 1932:587 (faunal list); Chûjô 1933:329 (Taiwan species), 1937:274 (faunal list), 1940:121 (faunal list), 1956b:24 (faunal list), 1958:10 (faunal list); Wu 1937:915 (faunal list); Esaki et al. 1939:298 (faunal list); Gressitt 1939c:138 (distribution), 1950:130 (China species); Yuasa 1950:1208 (faunal list); Yano 1954:35 (biology), 1965:126 (larva); Shirôzu & Kimoto 1957:65 (faunal list); Fukuda & Kurosa 1959:512 (larva); Chûjô & Kimoto 1961:194 (Japan species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:933 (China species); Nakane et al. 1963:347 (faunal list); Chen & T’an 1964:421 (faunal list); Kimoto 1966:638 (Japan species), 1976:172 (faunal list), 1987:29 (Japanese species); Ohno 1967c:7 (faunal list), 1968:32 (faunal list); Kimoto & Hiura 1971:24 (museum list); Suzuki 1974:7 (ovariole), 1978:13 (noted), 1989:63 (noted); Suzuki & Hara 1976:23 (egg); An et al. 1985:7 (Korea species); Takizawa 1994:518 (biology); Kimoto & Takizawa 1994:344 (Japan species); Santiago-Blay 2004:61 (host plants); Byun 2006:89 (faunal list).

Dactylispa (Platypriella) subquadrata subquadrata (Baly). Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog).

Dactylispa (Platypriella) subquadrata australis Chen & T’an 1964:427 (type: China, Fukien, Kien-yang, IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto 1965:805 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:59 (types); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog).

Dactylispa subquadrata subquadrata (Baly). Hua 2002:291 (faunal list). Dactylispa adstricta Weise 1922b:81 (type: Japan, Harima, BMNH). Winkler 1929:1353

(catalog); Chûjô 1933:329 (synonymy); Uhmann 1949a:7 (synonymy). Distribution: China (Hunan, Kiangsu, Yunnan), Japan, Korea.

Food plants: Castanea crenata Sieb. & Zucc., Castanopsis cuspidata (Thunb.) Schot., Quercus acutissima Carr., Q. glauca Thunb., Q. mongolica grosseserrata Rehd. & Wils., Q. serrata Thunb., Q. variabilis Bl. (Fagaceae) (Chûjô & Kimoto 1961).

Dactylispa subsilvana Uhmann 1960b Dactylispa subsilvana Uhmann 1960b:69 (type: East Madagascar, Périnet, NMNH). Uhmann

1960e:263 (faunal list), 1964a:477 (catalog), 1964c:174 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:391 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).


Dactylispa sulcata (Chapuis 1877) Hispa sulcata Chapuis 1877:57 (type: locality not stated, ISNB). Donckier 1899:612 (catalog). Dactylispa sulcata (Chapuis). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog);


Gestro 1906a:182 (noted); Uhmann 1931c:4 (noted), 1931i:860 (noted), 1934b:391 (museum list), 1935b:122 (museum list), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:161 (Africa species), 1956f:341 (catalog), 1957e:338 (faunal list), 1958e:317 (catalog).

Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa superspinosa Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a Dactylispa superspinosa Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:933 (type: China, Hupeh, Wang-chia-ying to

Sui-sa-pa, CASC). Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog). Distribution: China (Hupeh, Sichuan).


Dactylispa taiwana Takizawa 1978 Dactylispa taiwana Takizawa 1978:598 (type: Taiwan, Tungu, Nantou Hsine, EIHU). Kimoto &

Chu 1996:130 (as synonym of Dactylispa chujoi Shirôzu); Hua 2002:290 (faunal list); Lee 2009:109 (status); Lee & Cheng 2010:192 (Taiwan species).

Dactylispa (Triplispa) taiwana Takizawa. Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Distribution: Taiwan.

Food plant: Carpinus kawakamii Hayata (Betulaceae) (Takizawa 1978); Styrax suberifolia Hook. & Arn. (Styracaceae), Zelkova serrata (Thunb.) Makino (Ulmaceae) (Lee & Cheng 2010).

Dactylispa tamataveae Uhmann 1960b Dactylispa tamataveae Uhmann 1960b:79 (type: Madagascar, Ranomantan Tamatave, ZUAC).

Uhmann 1960e:269 (key), 1964a:477 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:391 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).


Dactylispa tarusama Maulik 1919 Dactylispa tarusama Maulik 1919:240 (type: India, Madras, Nilgiri Hills, BMNH). Uhmann

1958e:317 (catalog). Dactylispa tarsaura Maulik (sic). Takizawa 1985a:4 (lapsus calami, faunal list). Dicladispa tarusama (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: India (Madras). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa tebingensis Uhmann 1930a Dactylispa tebingensis Uhmann 1930a:5 (type: Indonesia, N.E. Sumatra, Tebing Tinggi, DEI)

Uhmann 1958e:317 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:392 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Indonesia (Sumatra). Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa tenella (Péringuey 1898) Hispa tenella Péringuey 1898:122 (type: South Africa, Zululand, Eshowe, ISNB). Donckier

1899:612 (catalog). Dactylispa tenella (Péringuey). Weise 1901:240 (transfer), 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:99

(catalog); Gestro 1905b:550 (catalog), 1914:284 (faunal list); Uhmann 1931c:3 (noted), 1931g:158 (distribution), 1931i:860 (noted), 1936d:412 (museum list), 1940a:108 (comparative note), 1942a:14 (faunal list), 1953b:30 (noted), 1954f:55 (faunal list), 1954h:188 (West Africa species), 1954i:44 (noted), 1954j:3 (noted), 1955h:163 (Africa species), 1956f:341 (catalog), 1956g:79 (faunal list), 1957j:124 (faunal list), 1958e:317 (catalog), 1960b:84 (noted), 1960d:377 (faunal list), 1960e:266 (faunal list), 1961a:46 (noted), 1964a:477 (catalog), 1964c:174 (faunal list); Paulian 1949:368 (biology); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list).

Dactylispa notha Weise 1899:267 (type: Kwai, ZMHB). Gestro 1901b:440 (noted), 1905b:551 (catalog); Weise 1910c:242 (faunal list), 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog), 1926:29 (museum list); Uhmann 1928g:78 (faunal list), 1931c:3 (synonymy), 1931i:860 (synonymy). Distribution: Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, South Africa. Food plants: Oplismenus sp. (Paulian 1949); Panicum glanduliferum Schumann (Uhmann 1961a) (Poaceae).

Dactylispa tenuicornis (Chapuis 1877) Hispa tenuicornis Chapuis 1877:56 (type: Cafraria, ISNB). Péringuey 1898:125 (faunal list);

Donckier 1899:612 (catalog). Dactylispa tenuicornis (Chapuis). Weise 1897:148 (noted), 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:100

(catalog), 1912:96 (comparative note); Gestro 1905b:551 (catalog), 1914:286 (faunal list); Uhmann 1931c:5 (noted), 1931g:82 (museum list), 1936a:447 (faunal list), 1938c:114 (museum list), 1942a:23 (faunal list), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:170 (Africa species), 1956f:341 (catalog), 1957c:89 (pupa), 1958e:318 (catalog), 1961a:46 (distribution), 1964a:477 (catalog); Hering 1957:82 (host plant).

Distribution: Kenya, South Africa. Food plant: Acanthaceae (Hering 1957; Uhmann 1957c).

Dactylispa terriculum Gestro 1908 Dactylispa terriculum Gestro 1908:128 (type: Madagascar, Antananarivo, Kingdon, Antsianaka,

Fianarantsoa, Foreste di Fito, MCSN). Gestro 1909b:259 (distribution); Weise 1910d:503 (faunal list), 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:874 (noted), 1954i:54 (distribution), 1958e:318 (catalog), 1960b:73 (redescription), 1960e:266 (faunal list), 1964a:477 (catalog), 1964c:174 (faunal list).



Dactylispa tewfiki Pic 1939c Dactylispa tewfiki Pic 1939c:148 (type: Egypt, Elba, Alfieri collection). Uhmann 1954f:59

(faunal list), 1955h:155 (Africa species), 1958e:318 (catalog); Alfieri 1976:237 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog). Distribution: Egypt.


Dactylispa tienmuensis Chen & T’an 1964 Dactylispa (Platypriella) tienmuensis Chen & T’an 1964:421 (type: China, Chekiang, Tien-

mushan, IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto 1965:805 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:59 (types); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog).

Dactylispa tienmuensis Chen & Tan. Hua 2002:291 (faunal list). Distribution: China (Chekiang, Fukien).


Dactylispa tientaina Chen & T’an 1964 Dactylispa (Triplispa) tientaina Chen & T’an 1964:420 (type: China, Chekiang, Tien-tai, IZAS).

Gressitt & Kimoto 1965:805 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:60 (types); Hua 2002: 291 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Distribution: China (Zhejiang).


Dactylispa tissa Maulik 1919 Dactylispa tissa Maulik 1919:219 (type: Ceylon, Dikoya; Kandy, BMNH). Uhmann1954b:24

(key), 1958e:318 (catalog). Dicladispa tissa (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: Sri Lanka. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa torva (Gestro 1897b) Hispa torva Gestro 1897b:103 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Pangherang-Pisang, MCSN). Donckier

1899:612 (catalog). Dactylispa torva (Gestro). Weise 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog); Uhmann 1928e:375

(faunal list), 1949b:671 (distribution); 1954b:29 (key), 1958e:318 (catalog), 1963b:477 (museum list); Mohamedsaid 2004:183 (Malaysian species).

Distribution: Indonesia (Java, Sumatra), Malaysia. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa trapa (Gestro 1897b) Hispa trapa Gestro 1897b:95 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Ajer Mantcior, Tangiong Morawa,

MCSN). Donckier 1899:612 (catalog). Dactylispa trapa (Gestro). Weise 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:319

(catalog).


Distribution: Indonesia (Sumatra). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa tribulus (Gestro 1897b) Hispa tribulus Gestro 1897b:102 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Pangherang-Pisang, MCSN).

Donckier 1899:612 (catalog); Gestro 1899c:326 (distribution). Dactylispa tribulus (Gestro). Weise 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog); Maulik 1931:1157

(noted); Uhmann 1958e:319 (catalog). Distribution: Indonesia (Sumatra). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa trigemina Uhmann 1933a Dactylispa trigemina Uhmann 1933a:71 (type: Philippines, Mindanao, ZMHB). Uhmann

1954b:22 (key), 1958e:319 (catalog), 1964(1965):258 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:392 (types); Staines & Staines 1997:22 (types); L. Medvedev 1995:20 (distribution); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Philippines (Bucas Grande, Leyte, Mindanao). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa trishula Maulik 1919 Dactylispa trishula Maulik 1919:187 (type: India?, BMNH). Uhmann 1958e:319 (catalog). Dicladispa trishula (Maulik). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Distribution: India. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa tristis (Duvivier 1891) Hispa tristis Duvivier 1891:cccxlvii (type: Madagascar, ISNB). Donckier 1899:612 (catalog);

Alluaud 1900:329 (faunal list). Dactylispa tristis (Duvivier). Gestro 1909b:261 (Madagascar species); Weise 1897:148 (noted),

1910d:503 (faunal list), 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:874 (museum list), 1954i:54 (distribution), 1958e:319 (catalog), 1960e:266 (faunal list), 1964a:477 (catalog).


Dactylispa uhmanni Gressitt 1950 Dactylispa uhmanni Gressitt 1950:132 (type: China, Fukien, San-kung, ICRI). Uhmann

1954b:31 (key), 1954a:201 (noted), 1958e:319 (catalog); Chen et al. 1961:459 (faunal list); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:935 (China species); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list).

Dactylispa (Triplisa) uhmanni Gressitt. T’an & Yu 1993:354 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Distribution: China (Fukien, Hubei, Hunan, Yunnan).



Dactylispa ungulata Uhmann 1954i Dactylispa ungulata Uhmann 1954i:44 (type: Madagascar, Ambohitantely, MNHN?). Uhmann

1958e:319 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:393 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).


Dactylispa upembana Uhmann 1954f Dactylispa upembana Uhmann 1954f:57 (type: Congo, Parc National de l’Upemba, MRAC).

Uhmann 1955h:163 (Africa species), 1958e:319 (catalog), 1962b:361 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:393 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).


Dactylispa usta Gestro 1908 Dactylispa usta Gestro 1908:126 (type: Madagascar, MCSN). Gestro 1909b:279 (distribution);

Weise 1910d:503 (faunal list), 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1954i:55 (distribution), 1958e:319 (catalog).


Dactylispa vanikorensis (Guérin-Méneville 1841) Hispa vanikorensis Guérin-Méneville 1841:6 (type: Vanikoro Island, Santa Cruz, depository

unknown). Boisduval 1833:plate 8 (illustration); Chapuis 1877:53 (noted); Donckier 1899:612 (catalog); Uhmann 1966d:278 (noted).

Hispa vanicorensis Guérin-Méneville (sic). Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (lapsus calami, catalog).

Dactylispa vanikorensis (Guérin-Méneville). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:98 (catalog); Uhmann 1934c:4 (comparative note), 1958e:319 (catalog), 1964a:477 (catalog); Gressitt 1957b:315 (South Pacific species), 1960a:90 (New Guinea species).

Distribution: Santa Cruz Island. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa varicornis Uhmann 1931g Dactylispa varicornis Uhmann 1931g:152 (type: Cameroon, DEI). Uhmann 1931i:872 (noted),

1936a:449 (faunal list), 1954f:58 (faunal list), 1954h:189 (West Africa species), 1955h:177 (Africa species), 1958e:319 (catalog), 1961a:48 (distribution), 1964a:477 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:393 (types); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria. Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa venustula Gestro 1908 Dactylispa venustula Gestro 1908:125 (type: Madagascar, MNHN). Gestro 1909b:274

(distribution); Weise 1910d:503 (faunal list), 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:873 (noted), 1958e:319 (catalog), 1960b:77 (redescription), 1964a:477 (catalog).


Dactylispa verecunda Péringuey 1908 Dactylispa verecunda Péringuey 1908:336 (type: South Africa, Natal, Malvern, SAMC). Weise

1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog); Uhmann 1935b:121 (museum list), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:157 (Africa species), 1956f:341 (catalog), 1957c:90 (pupa), 1958e:319 (catalog), 1964a:477 (catalog).

Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Canthium inerme (L.) O. Ktze. (Rubiaceae) (Uhmann 1957c).

Dactylispa vethi Gestro 1906a Dactylispa vethi Gestro 1906a:182 (type: Indonesia, Preanger, MCSN). Weise 1911a:69

(catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Uhmann 1935g:149 (faunal list), 1939c:42 (noted), 1953h:91 (faunal list), 1954b:27 (key), 1956a:66 (larva), 1958e:320 (catalog); Kalshoven 1957:12 (host plant); Santiago-Blay 2004:62 (host plants).

Distribution: Indonesia (Java, Sumatra). Food plant: Plectronia horrida (Blume) Benth. & Hook. (Rubiaceae) (Uhmann 1956a).

Dactylispa viatoris Uhmann 1934b Dactylispa viatoris Uhmann 1934b:392 (type: N.E. Rhodesia, Fort Jamieson, SAMC). Uhmann

1945-1948:188 (type), 1950b:333 (noted), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:167 (Africa species), 1958e:320 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:394 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Zimbabwe. Food plant: Castilla elastica Sessé (Moraceae) (Uhmann 1950b).

Dactylispa viracica Uhmann 1930-1932 Dactylispa (Triplispa) viracica Uhmann 1930-1932:58 (type: Philippines, Cataduanes Island,

Virac; Luzon, Tayabas, DEI). Gaedike & Döbler 1971:394 (types). Dactylispa viracica Uhmann. Uhmann 1933a:76 (Philippine species), 1945-1948:188 (type),

1954b:31 (key), 1958e:320 (catalog), 1964(1965):258 (faunal list); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Philippines (Cataduanes, Luzon). Food plant: Unknown.


Dactylispa vittula (Chapuis 1876) Hispa vittula Chapuis 1876:xxv (type: Philippines, Mindanao, ISNB). Gemminger & Harold

1876:3618 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:55 (noted); Donckier 1899:613 (catalog). Dactylispa vittula (Chapuis). Weise 1897:149 (noted), 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog),

1913:238 (faunal list); Schultze 1916:102 (faunal list); Gestro 1917:429 (faunal list), 1922:104 (faunal list); Uhmann 1930-1932:53 (museum list), 1933a:73 (faunal list), 1954b:20 (key), 1958e:320 (catalog), 1964a:478 (catalog), 1964(1965):252 (faunal list); Gressitt 1939c:138 (distribution); L. Medvedev 1995:19 (distribution).

Dactylispa acanthomela Gestro 1917:430 (type: Philippines, Baguio, Benguet, MCSN). Gestro 1922:104 (synonymy).

Distribution: Philippines (Basilan, Cebu, Leyte, Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro, Negros). Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa vulgaris (Gestro 1897b) Hispa vulgaris Gestro 1897b:100 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Si-Rambe, MCSN). Donckier

1899:613 (catalog). Dactylispa vulgaris (Gestro 1897). Weise 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog), 1924:83

(distribution); Uhmann 1928e:375 (faunal list), 1935g:149 (faunal list), 1954b:28 (key), 1958e:320 (catalog); Mohamedsaid 2004:183 (Malaysian species).

Distribution: Indonesia (Borneo, Sumatra), Malaysia. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa vulnifica Gestro 1906a Dactylispa vulnifica Gestro 1906a:186 (type: China, Yunnan, MCSN, MCSN). Weise 1911a:70

(catalog), 1911b:97 (catalog); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Liu 1936:254 (China species); Wu 1937:915 (faunal list); Gressitt 1950:133 (China species); Uhmann 1958e:320 (catalog); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:935 (China species); Hua 2002:291 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog). Distribution: China (Yunnan).


Dactylispa weyersi (Gestro 1899c) Hispa weyersi Gestro 1899c:325 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, MCSN). Donckier 1899:613

(catalog). Dactylispa weyersi (Gestro). Weise 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:96 (catalog), 1922b:79 (noted);

Gestro 1919:345 (faunal list); Uhmann 1934d:2 (faunal list), 1949b:670 (distribution), 1954b:20 (key), 1958e:320 (catalog); Würmli 1976c:311 (noted); Mohamedsaid 2004:184 (Malaysian species).

Dactylispa drescheri Weise 1922b:78 (type: Indonesia, Java, Noesa Kambangan, ZMHB?). Uhmann 1935g:148 (faunal list), 1954b:20 (key), 1958e:291 (catalog); Würmli 1976c:311 (synonymy).



Dactylispa wissmanni Uhmann 1928g Dactylispa wissmanni Uhmann 1928g:76 (type: South Uhehe, ZMHB). Uhmann 1931i:862

(type), 1953i:5 (key), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:160 (Africa species), 1958e:320 (catalog); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: German East Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa wittei Uhmann 1941b Dactylispa wittei Uhmann 1941b:5 (type: Congo, Parc National Albert, Lac Magera, MRAC).

Uhmann 1942a:18 (faunal list), 1945-1948:185 (sculpture), 1953b:31 (noted), 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955c:244 (distribution), 1955h:165 (Africa species), 1958e:321 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:394 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: British East Africa, Rwanda. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa wittmeri Würmli 1975b Dactylispa wittmeri Würmli 1975b:374 (type: Bhutan, Wangdiphodrang, Tongsa, MGFC).

Würmli 1976c:310 (distribution); Kimoto 2005:103 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog). Distribution: Bhutan, India (Uttah Pradesh).


Dactylispa xanthogastra Gestro 1908 Dactylispa xanthogastra Gestro 1908:130 (type: Madagascar, Antsianaka, Lago Alaotra,

MCSN). Gestro 1909b:267 (distribution); Weise 1910d:503 (faunal list), 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:101 (catalog); Uhmann 1954i:55 (distribution), 1958e:321 (catalog), 1960b:75 (noted).

Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa xanthopus (Gestro 1898b) Hispa xanthopus Gestro 1898b:262 (type: India, Darjeeling, HNHM). Dactylispa xanthopus (Gestro). Gestro 1907:72 (transfer); Weise 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:96

(catalog); Maulik 1918:70 (noted), 1919:192 (India species); Uhmann 1939a:9 (faunal list), 1954f:30 (faunal list), 1957f:304 (noted), 1958e:321 (catalog), 1963b:155 (museum list), 1964a:478 (catalog); Würmli 1975b:372 (faunal list), 1976c:310 (distribution); Takizawa 1985c:113 (faunal list), 1989:327 (faunal list); Basu 1999:180 (distribution); Kimoto 1999:146 (southeast Asia species); Medvedev & SprecherUebersax 1999a:345 (faunal list); L. Medvedev 2000b:24 (faunal list); SprecherUebersax 2011:489 (faunal list).

Dicladispa platyacantha xanthopus (Gestro). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa vitalisi Gestro 1920:397 (type: Vietnam, Alto Mekong, Nam Long, MCSN).

Uhmann 1934a:30 (distribution), 1958e:320 (catalog); Kimoto 1999:147 (synonymy).


Dactylispa corpulenta Uhmann 1927d:113 (type: Formosa, depository unknown). Gaedike & Döbler 1971:369 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Bangladesh, India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Darjeeling, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal), Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.

Food plants: Rubus floribunda paniculata Hay. (Takizawa 1978); R. innominatus S. Moore (Hua 2002); R. swinhoei Hance (Lee & Cheng 2007) (Roseacae).

Dactylispa xisana Chen & T’an 1961 Dactylispa (Dactylispa) xisana Chen & T’an 1961:471 (type: China, Yunnan, IZAS). Gressitt &

Kimoto 1963b:931 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:60 (types); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:385 (catalog).

Dactylispa xishana Chen & T’an (sic). Hua 2002:291 (lapsus calami, faunal list) Distribution: China (Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown. Dactylispa zulu (Péringuey 1898) Hispa zulu Péringuey 1898:122 (type: South Africa, Zululand, Eshowe, SAMC). Donckier

1899:613 (catalog). Dactylispa zulu (Péringuey). Weise 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog); Gestro 1905b:550

(catalog); Gomes Alves 1951:185 (distribution); Uhmann 1955h:161 (Africa species), 1956f:337 (museum list), 1957e:338 (faunal list), 1958e:321 (catalog), 1964a:478 (catalog).

Dactylispa zuluensis Weise 1901:239 (unnecessary replacement name). Weise 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog); Uhmann 1935b:123 (museum list).

Distribution: Mozambique, South Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Dactylispa zumpti Uhmann 1940a Dactylispa zumpti Uhmann 1940a:108 (type: South Africa, Umgebung Kamerunberg, DEI).

Uhmann 1942a:27 (key), 1954f:59 (noted), 1954h:188 (West Africa species), 1955h:163 (Africa species), 1958e:321 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:395 (types); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).



Dicladispa Gestro 1897b Hispa (Dicladispa) Gestro 1897b:81. Type species: Hispa testacea Linnaeus 1767, designated by

Chapuis 1875. Weise 1910d:503 (faunal list). Dicladispa Gestro. Gestro 1898:712 (full genus), 1899 (1901):330 (nomenclature), 1901b:438

(noted), 1905b:536 (faunal list), 1909b:289 (Madagascar species), 1914:287 (faunal list); Péringuey 1908:337 (South Africa species); Gressitt 1950:133 (China species), 1957b:318 (South Pacific species), 1959a:72 (host plants), 1960a:90 (New Guinea species), 1960b:711 (New Guinea species), 1961:83 (host plants), 1982:711 (ecology); Barber 1951:18 (nomenclature); Hering 1951:35, 60 (noted); Uhmann 1952d:232 (nomenclature), 1953b:31 (noted), 1954f:62 (faunal list), 1954h:192 (West Africa species), 1958e:323 (catalog), 1960b:88 (faunal list), 1960d:378 (distribution), 1960e:269 (faunal list), 1961a:48 (faunal list), 1964a:478 (catalog), 1964(1965):258 (faunal list). 1966a:1 (key); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types); Chûjô & Kimoto 1961:194 (Japan species); Chen et al. 1962:121 (faunal list); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:935 (China species); Würmli 1975a:72 (genera), 1976b:284 (revision); Nayar et al. 1976:353 (noted); OConnor 1979:430 (mites); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); Anand 1984:11 (noted); Chen et al. 1986:207 (China species); Gruev 1986:343 (faunal list), 1992:403 (faunal list); Kimoto 1987:30 (Japan species), 1999:122 (southeast Asia species), 2005:103 (faunal list); Jolivet 1989b:298 (noted), 1997:56 (noted); Cox 1994b:453 (parasites); Kimoto & Takizawa 1994:344 (Japan species); Samuelson 1994:137 (morphology), 1996:290 (morphology); Santiago-Blay & Fain 1994:409 (mites); Steinhausen 1994:306 (larvae); Jolivet & Hawkeswood 1995:156 (host plants); Kimoto & Chu 1996:132 (faunal list); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list), 2004a:315 (host plants); Jäch 1998:37 (noted); Basu 1999:187 (distribution); Bordy 2000:62 (France species); Warchalowski 2000:116 (Poland species), 2003:556 (Europe species); Jolivet & Verma 2002:62 (noted); Mohamedsaid 2004:184 (Malaysian species); Santiago-Blay 2004:63 (host plants); Chaboo 2007:46 (noted); Gruev & Tomov 2007:297 (faunal list); Ahmed 2009:325 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog).

Dicladispa (Dicladispa) Gestro. Uhmann 1958e:324 (catalog). Hispa Chapuis 1875:333 (not Linnaeus). Weise 1893:1061 (noted), 1897:137 (faunal list),

1899:265 (nomenclature), 1909:120 (nomenclature), 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:102 (catalog); Péringuey 1898:118 (faunal list); Gahan 1900:438 (stridulation); Maulik 1915:379 (noted), 1919:247 (India species); Uhmann 1930g:61 (museum list), 1942a:29 (faunal list), 1945-1948:186 (sculpture); Chûjô 1933:331 (faunal list); Liu 1936:250 (faunal list); Gressitt 1939a:162 (faunal list); Müller 1953:594 (Italy species).

Brachispa Gestro 1906b:488. Type species: Brachispa multispinosa Gestro, by monotypy. Gestro 1905b:557 (catalog); Gestro 1909c:197 (noted); Weise 1911a:63 (catalog), 1911b:94 (redescription); Maulik 1939:147 (noted); Uhmann 1940g:122 (claws), 1958e:277 (catalog), 1964a:470 (catalog).

Hispa Maulik 1919:247 (not Linnaeus). Wu 1937:915 (faunal list); Gressitt 1939:162 (distribution).

Dicladispa (Eutrichispa) Gestro 1923:21. Type species: Thoracispa schoutedeni Gestro, by monotypy. Uhmann 1958e:343 (catalog), 1964a:483 (catalog), 1966a:18 (key).


Dicladispa (Decispa) Uhmann 1928g:81. Type species: Hispa meyeri Uhmann 1928, by monotypy. Uhmann 1958e:342 (catalog), 1966a:23 (key); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Cirrispa Uhmann 1936c:123 (nomen nudum). Cirrispa Uhmann 1940e:143. Type species: Cirrispa conradsi Uhmann, by monotypy. Maulik

1939:147 (noted); Uhmann 1940g:122 (claws), 1958e:278 (catalog), 1961a:73 (faunal list), 1964a:470 (catalog); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Dicladispa admiranda Uhmann 1950b Dicladispa admiranda Uhmann 1950b:333 (type: Northern Rhodesia, Mukupa, BMNH).

Uhmann 1953b:31 (distribution), 1954f:85 (faunal list), 1957j:124 (faunal list), 1958e:324 (catalog), 1964a:478 (catalog), 1966a:21 (key); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Angola, Zambia. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa aerea (Gestro 1897b) Hispa (Dicladispa) aerea Gestro 1897b:125 (type: Barway, ISNB). Weise 1905b:117

(distribution); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:97 (Bangladesh species); Anand 1997:8 (morphology).

Hispa aerea Gestro. Donckier 1899:601 (catalog); Weise 1905b:117 (faunal list), 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog); Maulik 1919:253 (India species).

Dactylispa aerea (Gestro). Uhmann 1952d:237 (transfer), 1958e:324 (catalog); Würmli 1976b: 290 (revision); Basu 1999:188 (distribution); Borowiec & Świętojańska 2007:284 (distribution).

Dicladispa area (Gestro) [sic]. Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:490 (lapsus, faunal list). Hispa belli Weise 1897:127 (type: India, Belgaum; Kanara, BMNH). Donckier 1899:603

(catalog). Distribution: Bangladesh, India (Bengal, Bihar, Karnataka, Madras, Maharashtra, Mysore, Orissa).


Dicladispa aereipennis (Uhmann 1930g) Hispa aereipennis Uhmann 1930g:58 (type: Congo, Albertville, MRAC). Staines 1997b:416

(Uhmann species list). Dicladispa aereipennis (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1958e:324 (catalog),

1960d:378 (distribution), 1964a:478 (catalog), 1966a:13 (key). Distribution: Congo. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa alluaudii Gestro 1914 Dicladispa alluaudii Gestro 1914:290 (type: Tiwi, MNHN). Uhmann 1958e:324 (catalog). Distribution: British East Africa (Tiwi). Food plant: Unknown.


Dicladispa alternata (Chapuis 1877) Hispa alternata Chapuis 1877:52 (type: Indonesia, Java, ISNB). Weise 1897:147 (noted),

1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog); Donckier 1899:602 (catalog); Uhmann 1934c:5 (noted), 1935g:150 (faunal list), 1939c:43 (noted), 1945-1948:179 (sculpture).

Dicladispa alternata (Chapuis). Uhmann 1952d:238 (transfer), 1958e:324 (catalog), 1963e:252 (museum list), 1964a:478 (catalog); Kalshoven 1957:13 (host plant); Würmli 1976b:292 (revision); Reid 1998:301 (faunal list); Mohamedsaid 2000b:375 (distribution), 2009:98 (distribution); Santiago-Blay 2004:63 (host plants).

Hispa muricata Gerstäcker (nomen nudum). Gestro 1885:75 (distribution); Donckier 1899:608 (catalog); Uhmann 1952:238 (synonymy).

Hispa megacantha Gestro 1890:249 (type: Burma, Mt. Cariani, MCSN). Donckier 1899:607 (catalog); Maulik 1919:252 (India species); Uhmann 1931f:226 (museum list), 1934c:5 (synonymy).

Dactylispa megacantha (Weise). Reid 1998:301 (faunal list). Hispa muricata Gestro 1885:174 (not Gerstäcker). Weise 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:103

(catalog). Dicladispa muricata (Gestro). Gestro 1907:75 (status). Hispa alternata muricata Gestro. Uhmann 1939c:43 (status). Dicladispa alternata muricata (Gestro). Uhmann 1952d:238 (status), 1958e:324 (catalog). Distribution: Indonesia (Java, Sumatra). Food plant: Saccharum spontaneum L. (Poaceae) (Kalshoven 1957).

Dicladispa antennalis (Kraatz 1895) Hispa antennalis Kraatz 1895:194 (type: Togo; ISNB, DEI). Weise 1897:147 (noted), 1903:61

(faunal list), 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog); Donckier 1899:602 (catalog); Uhmann 1927b:62 (noted), 1930g:72 (noted), 1931c:7 (noted), 1931i:879 (noted), 1936a:451 (faunal list), 1937g:378 (noted), 1938d:424 (distribution); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:364 (types).

Dicladispa antennalis (Kraatz). Gestro 1905b:554 (catalog); Uhmann 1953b:32 (distribution), 1954h:193 (West Africa species), 1954l:1114 (museum list), 1958e:324 (catalog), 1966a:11 (key); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list).

Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Guinea, Nigeria, Togo, Uganda. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa approximata Péringuey 1908 Dicladispa approximata Péringuey 1908:340 (type: Southern Rhodesia?, SAMC). Uhmann

1934b:394 (museum list), 1956f:341 (catalog), 1958e:324 (catalog), 1966a:18 (key). Hispa approximata (Péringuey). Weise 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog); Uhmann

1934:394. Distribution: Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown.


Dicladispa arebiana (Uhmann 1930g) Hispa arebiana Uhmann 1930g:79 (type: Congo, Arebi, MRAC). Uhmann 1942a:32 (faunal

list); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list). Dicladispa arebiana (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:64 (faunal list), 1958e:324 (catalog), 1960d:378

(noted), 1964a:478 (catalog), 1966a:19 (key). Distribution: Congo. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa armigera (Olivier 1808) Hispa armigera Olivier 1808:763 (type: India, Bengal, MNHN?). Gyllenhal 1817:2 (noted);

Schönherr 1817:4 (catalog); Guérin-Méneville 1841:8 (comparative note); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:52 (noted); Weise 1897:146 (noted), 1904:457 (synonymy), 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog), 1924:83 (distribution); Donckier 1899:602 (catalog); Fletcher 1913:10 (noted), 1914a:205 (host plant), 1914b:315 (biology), 1917:167 (pest status); Donckier 1899:602 (catalog); Maulik 1915:379 (nomenclature), 1919:249 (India species), 1931:1159 (immatures), 1937:155 (host plant); Dammerman 1919:88 (host plant), 1929:93 (host plant); Gestro 1920:402 (faunal list); Ayyar 1921:52 (pest status); Ballard 1921:25 (pest status); Pillai 1921:3 (biology); Sen 1923:13 (biology); Ghosh 1924:87 (biology); Uhmann 1928b:61 (faunal list), 1928e:375 (faunal list), 1929b:2 (faunal list), 1935g:150 (faunal list); Jen 1930:1 (biology); Speyer 1932:226 (noted), 1954:367 (host plants); Ladell 1934:161 (biology); Liu 1936:254 (China species); Shiraki 1937:2153 (noted); Taylor 1937:145 (host plant); Wu 1937:915 (faunal list); Chu 1938:107 (biology); Gressitt 1939a:182 (distribution), 1939b:207 (distribution); Ramakrishna Ayyar 1918:75 (noted), 1940:156 (noted); Beeson 1941:227 (noted); Terhan & Pingle 1946:143 (pest status); Risbec 1950a:380 (biology); Kalshoven 1951:760 (host plant); Logothesis 1951:48 (biology); Khan & Murthy 1954:299 (parasite); Agarwala 1955:11 (control); Hazarika & Sattar 1955:253 (biology); Israel 1956:28 (control); Kadam et al. 1956:57 (biology); Basu & Banerjee 1957:295 (pest status); Janjua 1957:15 (faunal list); Ghose et al. 1960:253 (biology); Sharma & Parshad 1962:238 (parasite); Banerjee 1964:95 (status), 1971:88 (pest status); Ganguli & Ghosh 1964:53 (pest status); Hazarika & Sattar 1964:252 (control); Alam 1965:29 (biology), 1967:643 (noted), 1971:123 (pest status); Wongsiri & Kovitvadhi 1967:573 (noted); Yungus 1967:630 (noted); Pathak 1968:283 (biology); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:97 (Bangladesh species); Israel & Prakasa Rao 1969a:124 (control), 1969b:189 (control); Kabir 1969:245 (noted); Kabir & Mia 1971:25 (control); Ngoan 1971:134 (pest status); Saha 1973:364 (chromosomes); Nair 1975:19 (pest species); Chaboo 2007:59 (noted); Julio et al. 2010:30 (noted).

Hispa (Dicladispa) armigera (Olivier). Sen & Chakravorty 1970:123 (biology); Virhakantaiah 1972:79 (host plant); Dhaliwad et al. 1977:31 (control); Kalshoven 1981:457 (host plant); Anand 1997:8 (morphology).

Dicladispa armigera (Olivier). Uhmann 1952d:236 (distribution), 1953h:91 (faunal list), 1954n:516 (distribution), 1958e:325 (catalog); Kalshoven 1957:13 (host plant); Ghose et al. 1960:253 (control); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:936 (China species); Khan et al. 1963:16 (pest status); Gentry 1965:46 (noted); Kahn & Murthy 1965:450 (biology);


Das 1966a:270 (morphology), 1966b:272 (morphology); Grist & Lever 1969:222 (biology); Pathak 1969:49 (biology); Kulshreshtha et al. 1970:61 (pest status); Kabir & Daudmia 1971:25 (control); Kimoto 1972:48 (faunal list), 1987:30 (Japanese species), 1989:483 (faunal list), 1999:122 (southeast Asia species), 2003:43 (faunal list), 2005:103 (faunal list); Islam 1973:14 (biology); Suzuki 1974:7 (ovariole); David & Kumaraswami 1975:50 (pest species); Pathak 1975:44 (biology); Butani & Jotwani 1976:32 (control); Kabir & Mia 1976:61 (control); Sajjan et al. 1975:272 (control); Nayar et al. 1976:353 (noted); Subbaratnam & Perraju 1976:15 (control); Würmli 1976a:292 (revision); Alam 1977a:50 (biology), 1977b:87 (faunal list); Prakasa Rao 1977:401 (biology); Rao & Muralidharan 1977:18 (pest status); Dhaliwal & Saini 1978:17 (host plant); Subbaratnam & Perraju 1978:61 (control); Dhaliwal & Singh 1979:32 (control); Budhraja et al. 1979:15 (feeding), 1980:6 (feeding), 1980b:15 (control); Dhaliwal 1979:19 (host plants); Dhaliwal & Singh 1979:19 (control); Nickel 1979:9 (noted); Thakur et al. 1979:7 (pest status); Budhraja et al. 1979:15 (ecology), 1980:20 (control); Das 1980:530 (noted); Dhaliwal et al. 1980:14 (control); Alam et al. 1981:92 (faunal list); Hill et al. 1982:413 (faunal list); Joshi 1982:386 (parasites); Krishnaiah & Kalode 1983:25 (control); Misra et al. 1983:62 (parasites); Pathak & Pawar 1983:86 (biology); Singh 1983:12 (pest status); Chand & Tomar 1984:6 (plant resistance); Singh et al. 1984:11 (control); Zafar 1984:18 (control); Takizawa 1985a:2 (faunal list), 1986:38 (faunal list); Banerjee & Nath 1986:14 (pest status); Das et al. 1986:194 (pest status); van Vreden & Ahmadzabidi 1986:87 (biology); Zafar et al. 1986:19 (biology); Krishnaiah et al. 1987a:43 (control), 1987b:37 (control); Catling et al. 1988:529 (noted); Petitpierre et al. 1988:179 (chromosomes); Pradesh 1988:32 (noted); Anand 1989:5 (India species); Islam 1989:33 (pests status); Jolivet 1989b:300 (noted), 1997:56, 57, 105 (noted); Karim & Razzaque 1989:13 (rearing); Kahn 1989:3 (pest status); Nair 1989:10 (biology); Razzaque & Karim 1989:36 (host plants); Vadalia et al. 1989:206 (biology); Booth et al. 1990:154 (noted); Hazarika & Puzari 1990:31 (biological control), 1997:463 (pathogen); Hazarika & Dutta 1991:14 (biology); Krishnaiah & Kalode 1991:16 (control); Rodger et al. 1991:120 (noted); Zaka-Ur-Rab 1991:23 (biology); Dutta & Hazarika 1992:10 (host plant); Singh et al. 1992:392 (control); Barrion & Litsinger 1994:176 (key); Dale 1994:457 (biology); Heinrichs 1994:527 (host resistance); Kimoto & Takizawa 1994:345 (Japan species); Puzari et al. 1991:21 (pathogen), 1994:123 (pathogen); Puzari & Hazarika 1994:133 (pathogen); Sain et al. 1994:73 (control); Deka & Hazarika 1995:74 (biology), 1996:137 (biology), 1997:24

(pheromone), 1998a:253 (biology), 1998b:257 (biology); Hazarika & Puzari 1995:368 (pathogen), 2004:184 (pathogen); Mazumder et al. 1995:275 (pathogen); Shepard et al.

1995:48 (pest status); Baishya & Hazarika 1996:7 (control); Johnson et al. 1996:673 (pathogens); Kimoto & Chu 1996:132 (faunal list); Mann & Crowson 1996:301 (internal sac); Sahu et al. 1996:148 (predators); Gyawali 1998:475 (biology); Islam & Rabbi 1998:127 (parasite); Sontakke & Rath 1998:8 (pest status); Basu 1999:187 (distribution); Deka et al. 1999:287 (biology); Kau & Sharma 1999:377 (control); Lingaiah et al. 1999:93 (control); Sontakke et al. 1999:103 (biology); Bhattacharyya et al. 2000:159 (parasite); Bora & Hazarika 2001:218 (control); Choudhary et al. 2001:299 (pest status), 2002:183 (host plants); Haque & Islam 2001:44 (pest status); Rahman & Rahman


2001:181 (biology); Tiwari & Dubey 2001:109 (mating); Choudhary et al. 2002:183 (host plants); Hua 2002:292 (faunal list); Jolivet & Verma 2002:62 (noted); Nath & Dutta 2002:154 (pest status); Polaszek et al. 2002:529 (parasite); Rahman et al. 2002:5 (control); Rath 2002:170 (host plants); Sigsgaard 2002:58 (predator); Dutta & Nath 2003:258 (biology); Kumar 2003:460 (biology); Cox 2004:370 (flight); Kumar & Kumar 2004:323 (predators); Mohamedsaid 2004:184 (Malaysian species); SantiagoBlay 2004:62 (host plants); Thakur et al. 2005:217 (physiology); Dogra et al. 2006:305 (biology); Gumovsky 2006:52 (parasite); Bhattacharjee & Ray 2007a:329 (biology), 2007b:702 (control), 2010a:676 (management), 2010b:307 (biology), 2012:151 (control); Chaboo 2007:46 (noted); Gangurde 2007:3 (noted); Phukan et al. 2008:88 (pathogen); Ahmed 2009:325 (Bangladesh species); Islam et al. 2009:39 (noted); Patel & Pandya 2009:60 (control); Lee & Cheng 2010:194 (Taiwan species); Saikia et al. 2010:91 (antennae); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:490 (faunal list); Chakraborty & Deb 2012:2 (biology); Nasiruddin & Roy 2012:92 (pest status); Bari et al. 2015:368 (parasitoid); Liao et al. 2015:165 (host plants).

Dicladispa armigera armigera (Olivier). Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog). Dicladispa armigera (Linnaeus). Sharma & Kaul 2003:558 (misattribution, management). Dactylispa armigera armigera (Olivier). Gressitt 1950:134 (China species). Dactylispa (Hispa) armigera (Olivier). Sen-Gupta & Behura 1957:7 (noted); Prakasa Rao et al.

1971:345 (control); Rawat & Singh 1980:65 (pest status); Anand 1984:10 (noted). Hispa cyanipennis Motschulsky 1861:238 (type: Burma, depository unknown). Motschulsky

1869:80 (types); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Weise 1897:146 (noted), 1904c:457 (synonymy); Donckier 1899:604 (catalog); Maulik 1919:255 (India species); Würmli 1976:292 (synonymy).

Hispa aenescens Baly 1887b:412 (type: India, Chittagong District, BMNH). Cotes 1889:37 (biology); Gestro 1890:248 (distribution), 1897b:82 (distribution), 1919:343 (host plant); Duvivier 1891a:xlviii (faunal list), 1892:447 (faunal list); Weise 1897:146 (noted), 1904:457 (synonymy), 1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog); Donckier 1899:601 (catalog); Maxwell-Lefroy 1907:139 (biology), 1909:364 (biology); Risbec 1950a:380 (host plant); Banerjee 1964:95 (noted); Nair 1975:19 (pest species); Staines & Staines 1999:526 (Baly species list).

Hispa (Dicladispa) aenescens Baly. Gestro 1897:82 (distribution). Dicladispa aenescens (Baly). Barber 1951:18 (transfer). Hispa boutani Weise 1905g:101 (type: Vietnam, Tonkin, Thai-Binh, ZMHB). Weise 1911a:71

(catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog); Fukuda 1937:1 (biology); Risbec 1950a:382 (host plant); Würmli 1976:292 (synonymy).

Dicladispa boutani (Weise). Uhmann 1952d:237 (distribution), 1958e:327 (catalog), 1963b:477 (museum list); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types); Kimoto 1966:641 (Japan species), 1967:37 (faunal list); Kimoto & Gressitt 1966:571 (faunal list); Grist & Lever 1969:225 (biology).

Dicladispa armigera boutani (Weise). L. Medvedev 2000a:181 (distribution); Hua 2002:292 (faunal list); T’an 2002:459 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog).

Dactylispa boutani (Weise). Hua 2002:290 (faunal list).


Hispa similis Uhmann 1927d:116 (type: Formosa, Tainan, DEI?). Chûjô 1933:331 (Taiwan species); Shiraki 1934:116 (distribution), 1937:2153 (biology); Uhmann 1940h:126 (faunal list), 1952d:237 (synonymy); Risbec 1950a:382 (host plants); Jolivet & Théodoridès 1951:34 (parasites); Staines 1997b:417 (Uhmann species list).

Dicladispa armigera similis (Uhmann). Gressitt 1950:134 (China species), 1953b:126 (distribution); Wang 1985:7 (biology), 1990:80 (biology); Cox 1996a:171 (pupa); Hua 2002:292 (faunal list); Świętojańska et al. 2006:66 (noted); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog).

Dicladispa boutani similis (Uhmann). Gressitt 1950:134 (China species); Chûjô & Kimoto 1960:10 (distribution), 1961:194 (Japan species); Uhmann 1964a:479 (catalog); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Hispa semicyanea Pic 1932b:26 (type: China, NMNH). Würmli 1976:292 (synonymy). Dicladispa semicyanea (Pic). Gressitt 1950:135 (China species); Uhmann 1952d:232 (noted),

1958e:337 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:937 (China species). Dicladispa armigera yunnanica Chen & Sun 1962:130 (type: China, Yunnan, Xi-shuang-banna,

IZAS). Gressitt & Kimoto 1963b:932 (noted); Würmli 1976b:292 (synonymy); Yang & Sun 1991:60 (types); Hua 2002:292 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog).

Dicladispa yunusi Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:103 (type: Pakistan, Kalashah, ZMLP). Würmli 1976a:292 (synonymy), 1976d:322 (noted).

Distribution: Bangladesh, Bhutan, China (Chekiang, Fukien, Hainan, Kiangsi, Kwangtung, Shensi, Szechuan, Yunnan), India (Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu, Kashmir, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal), Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Malacca), Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.

Host plants: Saccharum officinarum L. (Zehntner 1894); Oryza sativa L. (Gestro 1919); wild grasses (Maulik 1919) (Poaceae); Tectona grandis L. (Lamiaceae) (Beeson 1941); Panicum maximum Jacq., Saccharum sp. (Gressitt 1950); Zizania latifolia Turcz. (Risbec 1950a); Zizania aquatica L., Leersia hexandra Sw., Echinochloa stagmina Roem. & Schult. (Hazarika & Sattar 1955); Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers., Echinochloa cus-galli (L.) Beauv., E. colona Link., Paspalum distichum L. (Dhaliwal 1979); S. sinense Roxb., Triticum aestivum L. (Hua 2002); Zea mays L. (Anand 1989); Panicum repens L., Paspalum paspalodes (Michx.) Scribn., Vetivera zinzanioides (L.) Nash (Dale 1994); Andropogon gayanus Kunth., Chrysopongon sp., Saccharum spontaneum L., Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers., Imperata cylindrica (L.) Beauv., Themeda anathera (Nees.) Hack (Poaceae), Carex sp., Cyprus rotundus L. (Cyperaceae) (Choudhary et al. 2002); Hygroryza aristate (Retz.) Nees ex Wight & Arn. (Poaceae) (Lee & Cheng 2010).

Dicladispa armispina (Kraatz 1895) Hispa armispina Kraatz 1895:195 (type: Togo, DEI). Weise 1897:147 (noted), 1911a:71

(catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog); Donckier 1899:602 (catalog); Uhmann 1930g:67 (noted), 1931i:879 (noted), 1936a:451 (faunal list), 1949b:679 (distribution), 1966a:21 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:365 (types).


Dicladispa armispina (Kraatz). Gestro 1905b:554 (catalog); Uhmann 1953b:32 (distribution), 1954h:193 (West Africa species), 1958e:326 (catalog), 1963b:474 (museum list).

Distribution: Congo, Togo, Uganda. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa aucta Uhmann 1954f Dicladispa aucta Uhmann 1954f:65 (type: Congo, Parc National de l’Upemba, MRAC). Uhmann

1956h:5 (museum list), 1958e:326 (catalog), 1966a:22 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:365 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Congo, Zambia. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa aurichalcea (Weise 1904) Hispa aurichalcea Weise 1904:171 (type: German East Africa, Pongwe Berge, Useguha,

ZMHB). Weise 1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog); Uhmann 1928g:90 (key), 1930g:82 (noted), 1931f:226 (museum list), 1931i:882 (noted), 1937g:377 (museum list).

Dicladispa aurichalcea (Weise). Uhmann 1954f:66 (faunal list), 1958e:326 (catalog), 1966a:22 (key).

Distribution: Congo, Tanzania. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa balli (Uhmann 1930g) Hispa balli Uhmann 1930g:75 (type: Belgian Congo, Kapiri; Mafungwa Sampwe, MRAC,

DEI). Uhmann 1935i:177 (faunal list), 1937g:379 (museum list), 1947a:134 (type), 1966b:218 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:365 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Dicladispa balli (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:67 (faunal list), 1958e:326 (catalog), 1964a:478 (catalog), 1966a:18 (key).

Distribution: Angola, Congo, South Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa basongoana (Uhmann 1930g) Hispa basongoana Uhmann 1930g:74 (type: Congo, Basongo, MRAC). Uhmann 1931i:877

(museum list), 1937g:378 (museum list); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list). Dicladispa basongoana (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:67 (faunal list), 1958e:326 (catalog),

1960d:381 (noted), 1964a:478 (catalog), 1966a:15 (key). Distribution: Congo, Tanzania. Food plant: Unknown.


Dicladispa bennigseni (Weise 1899) Hispa bennigseni Weise 1899:263 (type: German East Africa, ZMHB, DEI). Gestro 1911b:32

(noted); Weise 1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog); Uhmann 1928g:90 (key), 1930g:82 (noted), 1931f:226 (museum list), 1931i:883 (noted), 1937g:378 (museum list), 1949b:679 (distribution); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:366 (types).

Dicladispa bennigseni (Weise). Gestro 1901b:440 (noted), 1905b:553 (catalog), 1911:32; Uhmann 1953b:32 (distribution), 1954f:67 (faunal list), 1956h:5 (museum list), 1957j:124 (faunal list), 1958a:226 (faunal list), 1958e:326 (catalog), 1964a:479 (catalog), 1966a:22 (key).

Distribution: Angola, Congo, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa burgeoni (Uhmann 1936d) Hispa burgeoni Uhmann 1936d:412 (type: Congo, Kivu, Tshibinda, MRAC). Gaedike & Döbler

1971:367 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list). Dicladispa burgeoni (Uhmann). Uhmann 1953b:32 (distribution), 1954f:84 (faunal list),

1955h:159 (Africa species), 1958e:327 (catalog), 1958f:491 (distribution), 1964a:479 (catalog).


Dicladispa caffra (Weise 1904b) Hispa capensis Chapuis 1877:51 (not Thunberg) (type: Caffraria, ZMHU). Péringuey 1898:128

(faunal list). Hispa caffra Weise 1904b:448 (replacement name). Weise 1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:105

(catalog); Uhmann 1928g:89 (faunal list); 1931c:8 (noted), 1931i:877 (noted), 1949b:679 (noted).

Dicladispa caffra (Weise). Uhmann 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1955g:457 (museum list), 1956f: 341 (catalog), 1957c:93 (noted), 1957e:338 (faunal list), 1958e:327 (catalog), 1964a:479 (catalog).

Distribution: Egypt, Syria. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa comata (Weise 1922b) Hispa comata Weise 1922b:84 (type: Syria, Aleppo, NHRS). Winkler 1929:1354 (catalog);

Uhmann 1949b:680 (noted); Alfieri 1976:237 (faunal list). Dicladispa comata (Weise). Uhmann 1952d:232 (noted), 1954f:85 (faunal list), 1956f:341

(catalog), 1958e:327 (catalog), 1961a:48 (noted), 1964a:479 (catalog); Würmli 1975a:72 (noted), 1976b:289 (revision); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog).

Cirrispa conradsi Uhmann 1936c:123 (nomen nudum). Cirrispa conradsi Uhmann 1940e:143 (type: East Africa, Ukerewe Island, DEI). Uhmann

1949b:675 (distribution), 1956f:341 (catalog), 1956g:79 (faunal list), 1957e:337 (faunal list), 1958e:278 (catalog), 1958f:489 (distribution), 1961a:73 (noted), 1964a:470


(catalog), 1966:17 (synonymy); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:368 (types); Staines 1997b:414 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Angola, Botswana, Congo, Egypt, Kenya, Senegal, Syria, Tanzania, Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa compacta Gestro 1908 Dicladispa compacta Gestro 1908:131 (type: Madagascar, MCSN). Gestro 1909b:289

(distribution); Uhmann 1958e:328 (catalog), 1964a:479 (catalog). Hispa compacta (Gestro). Weise 1909:120 (noted), 1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog). Hispa (Dicladispa) compacta (Gestro). Weise 1910d:503 (faunal list). Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa congoana (Weise 1901) Hispa congoana Weise 1901:233 (type: Congo, Sassa, ZMHB). Weise 1911a:71 (catalog),

1911b:104 (catalog); Uhmann 1930g:86 (noted), 1931i:882 (noted), 1936a:450 (faunal list), 1937g:377 (museum list).

Dicladispa congoana (Weise). Gestro 1905b:553 (catalog); Uhmann 1953b:32 (distribution), 1954f:68 (faunal list), 1956i:391 (museum list), 1957f:305 (museum list), 1958e:328 (catalog), 1964a:479 (catalog), 1966a:22 (key).


Dicladispa crassa Uhmann 1954i Dicladispa crassa Uhmann 1954i:48 (type: Madagascar, Fampotakely, ISNB). Uhmann

1958e:328 (catalog), 1964c:175 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:369 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).


Dicladispa (Eutrichispa) crispa (Uhmann 1930g) Hispa (Eutrichispa) crispa Uhmann 1930g:84 (type: British East Africa, Campi Simba, MRAC).

Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list). Dicladispa (Eutrichispa) crispa (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:85 (faunal list), 1956e:566 (museum

list), 1958e:343 (catalog), 1958f:491 (distribution), 1964a:483 (catalog), 1966a:18 (key). Distribution: British East Africa, Kenya. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa cyannipennis (Motschulsky 1861) Hispa cyannipennis Motschulsky 1861 (type: India, depository unknown). Motschulsky 1869:80

(types); Weise 1904c:457 (nomenclature), 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog);


Maulik 1915:380 (comparative note), 1919:255 (India species); Anand 1989:6 (India species).

Dicladispa cyannipennis (Motschulsky). Uhmann 1958e:328 (catalog); Santiago-Blay 2004:63 (host plants).

Distribution: India, Myanmar. Food plants: Sorghum sp. (Poaceae) (Anand 1989). Dicladispa dama (Chapuis 1877) Hispa dama Chapuis 1877:52 (type: India, ISNB). Weise 1897:147 (noted), 1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog); Donckier 1899:604 (catalog); Maulik 1919:248 (India species),

1937:155 (host plants). Hispa (Dicladispa) dama Chapuis. Anand 1997:8 (morphology). Dicladispa dama (Chapuis). Uhmann 1958e:328 (catalog); Würmli 1976b:289 (revision); Anand

1989:6 (India species); Basu 1999:188 (distribution); Santiago-Blay 2004:63 (host plants); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog).

Hispa abdominalis Baly 1888a:664 (type: Burma, Bhamro, MCSN). Gestro 1890:250 (distribution), 1897:81 (synonymy), 1898c:713 (noted); Weise 1897:147 (noted); Staines & Staines 1999:526 (Baly species list).

Distribution: India (Assam, Uttar Pradesh), Myanmar. Food plant: Malus sp. (Roseacae) (Maulik 1919); Oryza sativa L., (Poaceae), Rosa sp. (Roseacae) (Anand 1989).

Dicladispa decipiens (Péringuey 1898) Hispa decipiens Péringuey 1898:128 (type: South Africa, Cape Colony, SAMC). Donckier

1899:604 (catalog); Weise 1901:240 (noted), 1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog). Dicladispa decipiens (Péringuey). Gestro 1905b:555 (catalog); Uhmann 1956f:341 (catalog),

1958e:328 (catalog). Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa delicata (Péringuey 1898) Hispa delicata Péringuey 1898:128 (type: South Africa, Verulam, Natal, SAMC). Donckier

1899:604 (catalog); Weise 1901:240 (noted), 1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog). Dicladispa delicata (Péringuey). Gestro 1905b:555 (catalog), 1911b:32 (noted); Uhmann

1956f:341 (catalog), 1958e:328 (catalog), 1966a:17 (key). Dicladispa belliana Gestro 1899e:550 (type: Ghinda, Gennaio, MCSN). Gestro 1904a:175

(faunal list), 1905b:555 (catalog), 1911:32 (synonymy). Distribution: Eritrea, South Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa densa Uhmann 1961a Dicladispa densa Uhmann 1961a:87 (type: Nigeria, Bamenda, NHMB). Uhmann 1964a:479

(catalog), 1966a:19 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:370 (types); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).


Distribution: Nigeria. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa desaegeri Uhmann 1961a Dicladispa desaegeri Uhmann 1961a:49 (type: Congo, Parc National de la Garamba, MRAC).

Uhmann 1964a:479 (catalog), 1966a:11 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:370 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Congo. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa deserticola (Weise 1900a) Hispa deserticola Weise 1900a:214 (type: German East Africa, Mombo, ZMHB). Weise 1911a:

71 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:879 (noted), 1937g:378 (noted). Dicladispa deserticola (Weise). Gestro 1905b:554 (catalog); Uhmann 1954f:84 (faunal list),

1958e:328 (catalog), 1960f:304 (noted), 1961a:51 (distribution), 1964a:479 (catalog), 1966a:12 (key).

Dicladispa peringueyi Gestro 1906b:494 (type: Haute Gamie, MCSN). Gestro 1905b:554 (catalog); Uhmann 1953b:33 (distribution), 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1954h:193 (West Africa species), 1957e:342 (faunal list), 1958e:335 (catalog).

Hispa peringueyi (Gestro). Weise 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:879 (noted), 1936a:451 (faunal list).

Dicladispa deserticola peringueyi Gestro. Uhmann 1961a:51 (noted), 1962b:361 (faunal list), 1964a:479 (catalog), 1966a:13 (key).

Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa distincta (Ritsema 1875) Hispa distincta Ritsema 1875:145 (type: New Guinea, depository unknown). Gemminger &

Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Weise 1897:128 (noted), 1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog); Donckier 1899:604 (catalog).

Dicladispa distincta (Ritsema). Gestro 1905b:553 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:328 (catalog). Distribution: New Guinea. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa dorsalis Péringuey 1908 Dicladispa dorsalis Péringuey 1908:339 (type: Southern Rhodesia, Sebakwe, SAMC). Uhmann

1956f:341 (catalog), 1957c:93 (noted), 1958e:328 (catalog), 1964a:479 (catalog), 1966a:12 (key).

Hispa dorsalis (Péringuey). Weise 1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog). Distribution: Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown.


Dicladispa exasperans Péringuey 1908 Dicladispa exasperans Péringuey 1908:338 (type: South Africa, Natal, Malvern, SAMC).

Uhmann 1956f:341 (catalog), 1957c:94 (noted), 1958e:329 (catalog), 1961a:59 (host plant), 1964a:479 (catalog), 1966a:11 (key); Hering 1957:82 (host plant).

Hispa exasperans (Péringuey). Weise 1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog). Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Dalbergia obovata E. May. (Fabaceae) (Hering 1957).

Dicladispa eximia (Péringuey 1898) Hispa eximia Péringuey 1898:129 (type: South Africa, Transvaal, Potchefstroom, ISNB).

Donckier 1899:605 (catalog); Gestro 1906b:496 (comparative note); Weise 1901:240 (noted), 1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog); Uhmann 1928g:85 (comparative note), 1930g:72 (noted), 1931c:7 (noted), 1931i:879 (noted), 1934b:394 (museum list), 1937g:378 (noted), 1945-1948:186 (sculpture).

Dicladispa eximia (Péringuey). Gestro 1905b:554 (catalog); Uhmann 1953b:32 (distribution), 1954f:69 (faunal list), 1956f:341 (catalog), 1957e:339 (faunal list), 1958e:329 (catalog), 1961a:52 (distribution), 1964a:479 (catalog), 1966a:11 (key).

Distribution: Congo, South Africa, Tanzania. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa exquistia (Uhmann 1931i) Hispa exquistia Uhmann 1931i:877 (type: South Africa, Natal, ZMHB). Uhmann 1949b:682

(type), 1949f:43 (museum list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:372 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Dicladispa exquistia (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1956f:341 (catalog), 1957c:95 (host plant), 1958e:329 (catalog), 1964a:479 (catalog), 1966a:14 (key).

Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Leucosidea sericea Eckl. & Zeyher (Roseacae) (Uhmann 1957c).

Dicladispa fabricii (Guérin-Méneville 1830) Hispa fabricii Guérin-Méneville 1830:140 (type: New Guinea, NMNH?). Guérin-Méneville

1841:7 (comparative note), 1844a:268 (noted); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:52 (noted); Gestro 1892:1021 (distribution), 1897d:454 (distribution); Weise 1897:147 (noted), 1908b:333 (faunal list), 1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog); Donckier 1899:605 (catalog); Maulik 1916:576 (museum list); Uhmann 1931a:179 (redescription), 1945-1948:186 (sculpture), 1966d:278 (noted).

Dicladispa fabricii (Guérin-Méneville). Gestro 1885:174 (distribution), 1907:83 (museum list); Uhmann 1952d:238 (distribution), 1958e:329 (catalog), 1964a:479 (catalog), 1966c:322 (faunal list); Gressitt 1957b:319 (South Pacific species), 1960a:90 (New Guinea species), 1960b:712 (New Guinea species), 1963:712 (faunal list); Würmli 1976b:293 (revision); Kimoto et al. 1984:51 (host plant); Santiago-Blay 2004:63 (host plants).

Hispa linnei Weise 1905g:101 (type: New Guinea, ZMHB). Weise 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog).


Dicladispa linnei (Weise). Gestro 1907:83 (museum list); Uhmann 1952d:238 (lectotype), 1958e:331 (catalog); Würmli 1976b:293 (synonymy); Kimoto et al. 1984:51 (host plant); Santiago-Blay 2004:63 (host plants).

Dactylispa fabricii linnei (Weise). Uhmann 1966c:322 (faunal list). Distribution: Bismarck Islands, Indonesia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands (Bougainville, New Britain, New Ireland). Food plants: Oplismenus sp. (Gressitt 1957b); other grasses (Gressitt 1963); Zea mays L. (Kimoto et al. 1984) (Poaceae).

Dicladispa fallaciosa (Péringuey 1898) Hispa fallaciosa Péringuey 1898:129 (type: Mozambique, DelaRikatlagoa, SAMC?). Donckier

1899:605 (catalog); Weise 1901:240 (noted), 1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog). Dicladispa fallaciosa (Péringuey). Gestro 1905b:554 (catalog); Uhmann 1956f:341 (catalog),

1958e:329 (catalog), 1966a:11 (key). Distribution: Mozambique. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa fallax (Uhmann 1930g) Hispa fallax Uhmann 1930g:80 (type: Congo, Kivi, Burunga, MRAC). Uhmann 1931i:886

(noted), 1936a:450 (faunal list), 1936d:413 (museum list), 1942a:31 (faunal list), 1947a:134 (type); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:372 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Dicladispa fallax (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:69 (faunal list), 1955c:245 (distribution), 1958e:329 (catalog), 1958f:481 (distribution), 1960d:381 (noted), 1962b:362 (faunal list), 1964a:479 (catalog), 1966a:20 (key); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list).

Dicladispa fallax subfallax Uhmann 1954f:69 (type: Mukana-Lusinga, MRAC). Uhmann 1958e: 329 (catalog), 1960d:380 (key), 1961a:52 (distribution), 1962b:362 (faunal list), 1964a:479 (catalog), 1966a:20 (key); Staines 1997b:416 (noted).

Distribution: Congo, Nigeria, Tanzania. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa faucium Uhmann 1954f Dicladispa faucium Uhmann 1954f:69 (type: Congo, Parc National de l’Upemba, MRAC).

Uhmann 1958e:329 (catalog), 1960d:380 (key), 1964a:479 (catalog), 1966a:19 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:372 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).



Dicladispa femorata (Fairmaire 1888) Hispa femorata Fairmaire 1888:376 (type: Vietnam, Tonkin, MNHN). Donckier 1899:605

(catalog); Weise 1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog). Dicladispa femorata (Fairmaire). Uhmann 1958e:329 (catalog); Kimoto 1999:125 (southeast

Asia species). Distribution: Vietnam. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa flabellata Uhmann 1954f Dicladispa flabellata Uhmann 1954f:71 (type: Congo, Parc National de l’Upemba, MRAC).

Uhmann 1958e:329 (catalog), 1966a:14 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:373 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).


Dicladispa formosa (Gestro 1906b) Dicladispa formosa Gestro 1906b:496 (type: South Africa, Transvaal, Leydensburg, MCSN).

Gestro 1905b:554 (catalog); Uhmann 1956f:341 (catalog), 1958e:329 (catalog). Hispa formosa Gestro. Weise 1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog). Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa fraterna Péringuey 1908 Dicladispa fraterna Péringuey 1908:337 (type: South Africa, Natal, Malvern, SAMC). Uhmann

1956f:341 (catalog), 1957c:95 (noted), 1958e:329 (catalog), 1964a:479 (catalog), 1966a:14 (key), 1966a:27 (lectotype).

Hispa fraternus (Péringuey). Weise 1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog). Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Leucosidea sericea Eckl. & Zeyher (Roseacae) (Uhmann 1957c). Dicladispa freyi Uhmann 1961a Dicladispa freyi Uhmann 1961a:90 (type: South Africa, Tongaat b. Durban, depository

unknown). Uhmann 1964a:480 (catalog), 1966a:15 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:373 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa (Eutrichispa) gebieni (Uhmann 1930f) Hispa (Eutrichispa) gebieni Uhmann 1930f:170 (type: East Africa, Morogoro, ZMHU). Uhmann

1934b:394 (museum list), 1946a:17 (type), 1949b:680 (distribution); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Hispa gebieni Uhmann. Uhmann 1945-1948:187 (sculpture).


Dicladispa (Eutrichispa) gebieni (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954b:85 (faunal list), 1956f:343 (catalog), 1958e:343 (catalog), 1958a:226 (faunal list), 1964a:483 (catalog), 1966a:18 (key).

Distribution: German East Africa, Portugese East Africa, Angola, Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa gestroi (Chapuis 1877) Hispa gestroi Chapuis 1877:53 (type: Madagascar, ISNB). Weise 1897:146 (noted), 1909:120

(noted), 1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog); Donckier 1899:605 (catalog); Frappa 1929:167 (host plant), 1938:33 (control); Paulian 1950:53 (biology); Risbec 1950a:383 (host plants); Speyer 1954:367 (host plants); Brenière 1966:514 (pest status); Reckhaus 1990:30 (pest status).

Dicladispa gestroi (Chapuis). Gestro 1909b:291 (Madagascar species); Uhmann 1953i:7 (type), 1954i:55 (distribution), 1958e:330 (catalog), 1960b:88 (noted), 1960e:269 (faunal list), 1964a:480 (catalog), 1964c:175 (faunal list); Appert 1967:165 (biology); Grist & Lever 1969:226 (noted); Abo & Sy 1998:122 (pest status); Delucchi 2001:493 (biology); Banwo 2002:110 (pest status); Hodek 2003:230 (diapause); Banwo et al. 2004:31 (distribution).

Hispa (Dicladispa) gestroi (Chapuis). Weise 1910d:483, 503 (faunal list); Konaté & Fargette 2003:5 (noted).

Hyspa gestroi Chapuis [sic]. Vayssiere 1946:466 (noted). Distribution: Madagascar.

Food plants: Oryza sativa L. (Frappa 1929); wild grasses (Paulian 1950); Leerisa hexandra Sw., Ageratum conyzoides Echinochloa sp. Panicum sp. (Poaceae), Sieber. ex. Steud. (Asteraceae), Eleocharis sp., Pycreus mundii Ness, Scripus sp. (Cyperaceae) (Ravelojaona 1982).

Dicladispa gracilicornis (Weise 1905g) Hispa gracilicornis Weise 1905g:102 (type: Cameroon, ZMHB). Weise 1911a:71 (catalog),

1911b:104 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:885 (noted). Dicladispa gracilicornis (Weise). Gestro 1905b:536 (faunal list); Uhmann 1953b:32

(distribution), 1954f:85 (faunal list), 1954h:193 (West Africa species), 1957e:339 (faunal list), 1958e:330 (catalog), 1960d:380 (key), 1964a:480 (catalog), 1966a:19 (key); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list). Distribution: Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Togo, Zambia.


Dicladispa haafi Uhmann 1961c Dicladispa haafi Uhmann 1961c:504 (type: South Africa, Natal, Pietermaritz, NHMB). Uhmann

1964a:480 (catalog), 1966a:14 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:375 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).



Dicladispa hastata Uhmann 1954i Dicladispa hastata Uhmann 1954i:49 (type: Madagascar, Antsingy du Nord, depository

unknown). Uhmann 1958e:330 (catalog), 1960e:270 (faunal list); Demaux 1963a:31 (noted); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:375 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).


Dicladispa hebes Uhmann 1956i Dicladispa hebes Uhmann 1956i:389 (type: Congo, Kiva, Kalonge, MRAC). Uhmann 1957c:101

(comparative note), 1958e:330 (catalog), 1961a:59 (host plant), 1964a:480 (catalog), 1966a:16 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:375 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Dicladispa vicinalis (Péringuey). Uhmann 1953b:33 (misidentification, immatures, host plant); Uhmann 1955c:245 (correction).

Distribution: Congo, Rwanda, South Africa. Food plant: Crotalaria sp. (Fabaceae) (Uhmann 1953b).

Dicladispa indubia Péringuey 1908 Dicladispa indubia Péringuey 1908:341 (type: South Africa, Transvaal, Potchefstroom, SAMC).

Uhmann 1934b:394 (museum list), 1954f:85 (faunal list), 1956f:341 (catalog), 1957e:339 (faunal list), 1958e:330 (catalog), 1960f:305 (noted), 1964a:480 (catalog), 1964d:732 (museum list), 1966a:22 (key).

Hispa indubia (Péringuey). Weise 1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog). Distribution: South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa iranica Lopatin 1984 Dicladispa iranica Lopatin 1984:91 (type: Iran, NMPC). Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387

(catalog). Distribution: Iran. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa jeannelii Gestro 1914 Dicladispa jeannelii Gestro 1914:288 (type: Kinangop Mountain, MNHN, MCSN). Hispa jeanneli Gestro. Uhmann 1936a:451 (faunal list), 1936d:412 (museum list), 1942a:30

(faunal list). Dicladispa jeanneli Gestro. Uhmann 1953b:32 (distribution), 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1955c:244

(distribution), 1958e:330 (catalog), 1958f:491 (distribution), 1962b:362 (faunal list), 1964a:480 (catalog), 1966a:10 (key).

Distribution: British East Africa, Kenya, Rwanda. Food plant: Unknown.


Dicladispa joliveti Uhmann 1953i Dicladispa joliveti Uhmann 1953i:5 (type: Congo, Kwango, Ngowa, ISNB). Uhmann 1953b:32

(distribution), 1954f:72 (faunal list), 1956h:5 (museum list), 1958e:330 (catalog), 1960d:381 (noted), 1964a:480 (catalog), 1966a:22 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:377 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Congo, Tanzania, Zambia. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa kapauku Gressitt 1957b Dicladispa kapauku Gressitt 1957b:320 (type: New Guinea, Ugapuga, Kamo Valley,

Wisselmeren, BPBM). Gressitt 1960a:90 (New Guinea species), 1960b:713 (New Guinea species); Uhmann 1964a:480 (catalog); Würmli 1976a:293 (revision); Staines & Staines 1997:11 (types); Santiago-Blay 2004:63 (host plants).

Dicladispa linnei Gressitt 1957b:319 (not Weise). Gressitt 1960a:90 (New Guinea species), 1960b:712 (New Guinea species, larva), 1963:712 (noted); Uhmann 1960:480 (catalog).

Distribution: New Guinea. Food plant: Grasses (Poaceae) (Gressitt 1957b).

Dicladispa kapiriensis (Uhmann 1930g) Hispa kapiriensis Uhmann 1930g:70 (type: Congo, Kapiri, MRAC). Uhmann 1947a:134 (type);

Gaedike & Döbler 1971:377 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list). Dicladispa kapiriensis (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1958e:330 (catalog), 1960d:

382 (noted), 1964a:480 (catalog), 1966a:11 (key). Distribution: Congo. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa katentaniana (Uhmann 1930g) Hispa katentaniana Uhmann 1930g:75 (type: Congo, Katentania, MRAC). Staines 1997b:416

(Uhmann species list). Dicladispa katentaniana (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1958e:331 (catalog),

1960d:382 (noted), 1966a:15 (key). Distribution: Congo. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa keiseri Uhmann 1960e Dicladispa keiseri Uhmann 1960e:270 (type: Madagascar, Périnet, depository unknown).

Uhmann 1964a:480 (catalog); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa kivuensis (Uhmann 1930g) Hispa kivuensis Uhmann 1930g:73 (type: Congo, Kivu, MRAC). Uhmann 1942a:31 (faunal list);

Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).


Dicladispa kivuensis (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1958e:331 (catalog), 1960d: 383 (noted), 1964a:480 (catalog), 1966a:10 (key), 1966b:219 (faunal list).

Dicladispa kivuensis humeropicta Uhmann 1961a:53 (type: Congo, Parc Garamba, MRAC). Uhmann 1964a:480 (catalog), 1966a:11 (key); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).


Dicladispa kraatzi (Weise 1897) Hispa kraatzi Weise 1897:128 (type: Togo, DEI). Weise 1897:146 (noted), 1901:233 (noted),

1911a:71 (catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog), 1915:182 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:606 (catalog); Uhmann 1930g:81 (noted), 1931i:882 (noted), 1936a:450 (faunal list), 1937g:377 (museum list), 1945-1948:187 (sculpture), 1949b:679 (distribution),; Gaedike & Döbler 1971:378 (types).

Dicladispa kraatzi (Weise). Gestro 1905b:553 (catalog); Uhmann 1953b:32 (distribution), 1954f:73 (faunal list), 1954h:193 (West Africa species), 1955c:245 (distribution), 1957j:124 (faunal list), 1958e:331 (catalog), 1961a:53 (distribution), 1963b:474 (museum list), 1964a:480 (catalog), 1966a:23 (key), 1967c:258 (faunal list), 1969:299 (faunal list); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list).

Dicladispa torulosa (Chapuis). Kraatz 1895:198 (misidentification); Weise 1897:129 (correction). Distribution: Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Guinea, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Uganda.


Dicladispa laevigata (Uhmann 1937g) Hispa laevigata Uhmann 1937g:378 (type: Congo, Tanganjika, Moera, Kiambi, MRAC).

Uhmann 1947a:134 (type); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:378 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Dicladispa laevigata (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:75 (faunal list), 1958e:331 (catalog), 1960d:379 (key), 1964a:480 (catalog), 1966a:20 (key).

Distribution: Congo, Tanzania. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa lanigera (Péringuey 1898) Hispa lanigera Péringuey 1898:129 (type: Namaqualand, O’Kiep, SAMC). Donckier 1899:606

(catalog); Weise 1901:240 (noted), 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog). Dicladispa lanigera (Péringuey). Gestro 1905b:554 (catalog); Uhmann 1956f:341 (catalog),

1958e:331 (catalog), 1966a:9 (key). Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Unknown.


Dicladispa lenicornis (Gestro 1911b) Hispa (Dicladispa) lenicornis Gestro 1911b:31 (type: Uganda, Bugala; Bussu; MCSN). Dicladispa lenicornis (Gestro). Weise 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog); Uhmann

1958e:331 (catalog). Distribution: Uganda. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa lettowi (Uhmann 1928g) Hispa lettowi Uhmann 1928g:85 (type: German East Africa, Myombo, ZMHB). Uhmann

1930g:66 (key), 1931i:879 (noted), 1937g:378 (noted), 1949b:679 (distribution); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Dicladispa lettowi (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1956f:341 (catalog), 1956h:5 (museum list), 1958e:331 (catalog), 1958f:491 (distribution), 1961a:89 (distribution), 1962b:362 (faunal list), 1964a:480 (catalog), 1966a:12 (key); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list).

Distribution: German East Africa, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa longispinosa (Fairmaire 1869) Hispa longispinosa Fairmaire 1869:259 (type: Madagascar, MNHN?). Gemminger & Harold

1876:3618 (catalog); Weise 1897:146 (noted), 1909:120 (noted), 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:106 (catalog); Alluaud 1900:329 (faunal list).

Hispa longespinosa Fairmaire (sic). Chapuis 1877:53 (lapsus calami, noted); Donckier 1899:607 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:886 (noted).

Dicladispa longispinosa (Fairmaire). Gestro 1909b:293 (Madagascar species); Uhmann 1954i:51 (noted), 1958e:331 (catalog), 1960b:88 (noted), 1964a:480 (catalog), 1964c:176 (faunal list).

Hispa (Dicladispa) longespinosa (Fairmaire) (sic). Weise 1910d:503 (lapsus calami, faunal list). Dicladispa longespinosa (Fairmaire) (sic). Uhmann 1960e:271 (faunal list); Demaux 1963a:31

(noted). Hispa longespinosa atripes Pic 1932b:27 (type: Madagascar, MNHN?). Dicladispa atripes (Pic). Uhmann 1958e:332 (catalog). Distribution: Madagascar, Uganda. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa lulengaica (Uhmann 1930g) Hispa lulengaica Uhmann 1930g:71 (type: Congo, Kivu, Lulenga, MRAC). Uhmann 1942a:31

(faunal list), 1949b:679 (distribution); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list). Dicladispa lulengaica (Uhmann). Uhmann 1953b:32 (noted), 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1956f:342

(catalog), 1958e:332 (catalog), 1958f:491 (distribution), 1960d:383 (noted), 1964a:480 (catalog), 1966a:13 (key).



Dicladispa lusingana Uhmann 1954f Dicladispa lusingana Uhmann 1954f:85 (type: Congo, Parc National de l’Upemba, MRAC).

Uhmann 1957j:124 (faunal list), 1958e:332 (catalog), 1964a:480 (catalog), 1966a:21 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:379 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Angola, Congo. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa machadoi Uhmann 1957j Dicladispa machadoi Uhmann 1957j:125 (type: Angola, Reserve de Chasse de Cameia,

MRAC). Uhmann 1964a:480 (catalog), 1966a:22 (key), 1967c:258 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:380 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Angola, Congo. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa madegassa (Pic 1932b) Hispa madegassa Pic 1932b:27 (type: Madagascar, Tananarive, NMNH). Dicladispa madegassa (Pic). Uhmann 1958e:332 (catalog), 1964a:480 (catalog); Descarpentries

& Villiers 1959b:505 (types). Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa malvernia Péringuey 1908 Dicladispa malvernia Péringuey 1908:339 (type: South Africa, Natal, Malvern, SAMC).

Uhmann 1934b:394 (museum list), 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1955g:457 (museum list), 1956f:342 (catalog), 1957c:96 (pupa), 1958e:332 (catalog), 1964a:481 (catalog), 1966a:14 (key); Hering 1957:84 (host plant).

Hispa malvernia (Péringuey). Weise 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog). Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Grewia occidentalis L. (Tiliaceae) (Hering 1957; Uhmann 1957c).

Dicladispa marginata (Uhmann 1930g) Hispa marginata Uhmann 1930g:69 (type: Congo, Elisabethville, MRAC). Staines 1997b:416

(Uhmann species list). Dicladispa marginata (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1958e:332 (catalog). Distribution: Congo. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa megacantha (Gestro 1890) Hispa megacantha Gestro 1890:249 (type: Burma, Monti Carin, MCSN, ISNB). Weise 1897:

147 (noted), 1905b:117 (faunal list), 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog); Gestro 1901b:437 (noted); Maulik 1919:252 (India species); Uhmann 1929a:149 (faunal list), 1934c:5 (faunal list), 1939c:43 (faunal list).

Hispa (Dicladispa) megacantha Gestro. Anand 1997:8 (morphology)


Dicladispa megacantha (Gestro). Uhmann 1958e:332 (catalog), 1963b:477 (museum list); Würmli 1976a:292 (revision); Kimoto 1999:125 (southeast Asia species); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog).

Hispa birendra Maulik 1919:250 (type: India, Sikkim, Mungphu; Assam, Shillong, BMNH). Uhmann 1927b:62 (noted), 1939a:9 (faunal list); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:97 (Bangladesh species); Würmli 1975b:380 (faunal list).

Dicladispa birendra (Maulik). Uhmann 1952c:232 (noted), 1958e; 327 (catalog); Chen et al. 1962:121 (faunal list); Würmli 1975b:372 (faunal list); Basu 1999:188 (distribution); Hua 2002:292 (faunal list); Kimoto 2005:103 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:386 (catalog).

Hispa (Dicladispa) birendra (Maulik). Anand 1997:8 (morphology). Distribution: Bangladesh, Bhutan, China (Yunnan), India (Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim, West Bengal), Indonesia (Java), Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam.


Dicladispa melancholica (Weise 1901) Hispa melancholica Weise 1901:234 (type: British East Africa, Mombas, DEI). Weise

1905b:117 (distribution), 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog); Gestro 1906b:553 (catalog), 1914:287 (faunal list); Achard 1917:70 (distribution); Uhmann 1928g:90 (key), 1930g:82 (noted), 1931i:882 (noted), 1934b:393 (museum list), 1937g:378 (museum list), 1945-1948:187 (sculpture); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:380 (types).

Dicladispa melancholica (Weise). Gestro 1905b:553 (catalog); Uhmann 1954f:85 (faunal list), 1956f:342 (catalog), 1958e:332 (catalog), 1966a:23 (key).

Distribution: British East Africa, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa meyeri (Uhmann 1928g) Hispa (Decispa) meyeri Uhmann 1928g:81 (type: German East Africa, Kwakiyembe, ZMHB).

Uhmann 1931i:880 (noted), 1945-1948:188 (type); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Hispa meyeri Uhmann. Gaedike & Döbler 1971:381 (types). Dicladispa (Decispa) meyeri (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1958e:342 (catalog),

1966a:23 (key). Distribution: German East Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa mombonensis (Weise 1899) Hispa mombonensis Weise 1899:264 (type: German East Africa, Mombo, ZMHB). Weise

1901:235 (noted), 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b; 105 (catalog); Uhmann 1928g:89 (comparative note), 1931i:878 (noted).

Dicladispa mombonensis (Weise). Gestro 1901b:440 (noted), 1905b:554 (catalog); Uhmann 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1958e:332 (catalog), 1958f:491 (distribution), 1964a:481 (catalog), 1966a:16 (key).

Hispa (Dicladispa) mombonensis Weise. Gomes Alves 1951:186 (distribution).


Distribution: Kenya, Mozambique. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa multispinosa (Gestro 1906b) Brachispa multispinosa Gestro 1906b:489 (type: South Africa, Transvaal, Shilouvane, MCSN).

Gestro 1905b:554 (catalog); Weise 1911a:63 (catalog), 1911b:95 (catalog); Uhmann 1956f:341 (catalog), 1958e:278 (catalog).


Dicladispa nigra (Uhmann 1928g) Hispa nigra Uhmann 1928g:86 (type: Utzungwe Bergen, ZMHB). Uhmann 1931i:886 (noted),

1945-1948:188 (type); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list). Dicladispa nigra (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1958e:333 (catalog), 1966a:15

(key). Distribution: German East Africa. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa obliqua Uhmann 1954n Dicladispa obliqua Uhmann 1954n:515 (type: Angola, BMNH). Uhmann 1958e:333 (catalog),

1966a:22 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:383 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Angola. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa obscura Gestro 1908 Dicladispa obscura Gestro 1908:131 (type: Madagascar, MCSN). Gestro 1909b:290; Uhmann

1958e:333 (catalog), 1964a:481 (catalog), 1964c:177 (faunal list); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types).

Hispa obscura (Gestro). Weise 1909:120 (noted), 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:886 (noted).

Hispa (Dicladispa) obscura (Gestro). Weise 1910d:503 (faunal list). Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa occator (Brullé 1838) Hispa occator Brullé 1838:73 (type: Canary Islands, depository unknown). Lucas 1849:514

(faunal list); Wollaston 1864:418 (faunal list); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:51 (noted); Weise 1897:147 (faunal list), 1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog); Donckier 1899:608 (catalog); Gestro 1914:77 (noted), 1919:343 (host plant); Hering 1927:462 (host plant); Winkler 1929:1354 (catalog); Uhmann 1931f:226 (museum list), 1931i:878 (museum list), 1949a:9 (key).

Dicladispa occator (Brullé). Uhmann 1952d:234 (transfer), 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1955e:106


(immatures), 1958e:333 (catalog), 1966a:9 (key); Würmli 1976b:290 (revision); Alegre & Petitpierre 1984:329 (genetics); Petitpierre et al. 1988:179 (chromosomes); Warchalowski 2003:556 (Europe species); Santiago-Blay 2004:63 (host plants); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog); Julio et al. 2010:30 (noted).

Hispa testacea occator Brullé. Weise 1897:147 (noted), 1911a:73 (catalog). Distribution: Canary Islands. Food plant: Cistus vaginalis Ait. (Cistaceae) (Brullé 1838)

Dicladispa omarramba (Péringuey 1898) Hispa omarramba Péringuey 1898:127 (type: Ovampoland, Omarramba, SAMC). Donckier

1899:608 (catalog); Weise 1901:240 (noted), 1910c:241 (faunal list), 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:878 (noted).

Dicladispa omarramba (Péringuey). Gestro 1905b:555 (catalog), 1914:289 (faunal list); Uhmann 1956f:342 (catalog), 1958e:333 (catalog), 1963b:474 (museum list), 1966a:16 (key).

Distribution: Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa opaca (Weise 1904b) Hispa opaca Weise 1904b:448 (type: Africa Mer., ZMHU). Weise 1911a:72 (catalog),

1911b:105 (catalog); Uhmann 1932:878. Dicladispa opaca (Weise). Gestro 1905b:554 (catalog); Uhmann 1957e:339 (redescription),

1958e:333 (catalog), 1964a:481 (catalog), 1966a:9 (key). Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa opacicollis (Uhmann 1930g) Hispa opacicollis Uhmann 1930g:78 (type: Congo, Equateur, Coquilhatville; Leopoldville,

MRAC). Collart 1934:250 (host plant); Uhmann 1936a:450 (faunal list), 1936d:413 (museum list), 1942a:30 (faunal list), 1947a:134 (type), 1947j:124 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:383 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Dicladispa opacicollis (Uhmann). Uhmann 1953b:32 (noted), 1954f:76 (faunal list), 1958e:333 (catalog), 1958f:491 (distribution), 1960d:380 (key), 1963e:253 (museum list), 1964a:481 (catalog), 1966a:19 (key). Distribution: Angola, Congo, Kenya, Rwanda. Food plant: Mûrier du Cap (Collart 1934)

Dicladispa ornata (Uhmann 1939f) Hispa ornata Uhmann 1939f:151 (type: Victoria Sea, Ukerewe Island, DEI). Uhmann 1949b:682

(type); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:383 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list). Dicladispa ornata (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1958e:333 (catalog), 1958a:222

(pupa), 1961a:53 (distribution), 1964a:481 (catalog), 1966a:15 (key). Distribution: Congo, Uganda. Food plant: Grewia flavenscens Juss. (Tiliaceae) (Uhmann 1958a).


Dicladispa ovampoa (Péringuey 1898) Hispa ovampoa Péringuey 1898:126 (type: Ovampoland, Omarramba, SAMC). Donckier

1899:608 (catalog); Weise 1901:240 (noted), 1910c:241 (faunal list), 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog); Gestro 1914:290 (noted); Uhmann 1934b:393 (museum list).

Dicladispa ovampoa (Péringuey). Gestro 1905b:554 (catalog), 1911b:32 (noted); Uhmann 1954f:85 (faunal list), 1956f:342 (catalog), 1958e:333 (catalog), 1960d:380 (key), 1964a:481 (catalog), 1966a:31 (type).

Distribution: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa pallescens (Guérin-Méneville 1841) Hispa pallescens Guérin-Méneville 1841:13 (type: India, Pondicherry, MNHN?). Motschulsky

1861:239 (noted); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:52 (noted), 1880:29 (faunal list); Weise 1897:147 (noted), 1905b:117 (faunal list), 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog); Donckier 1899:608 (catalog); Maulik 1919:254 (India species); Kadapa 1959:250 (biology); Uhmann 1966d:278 (noted).

Dicladispa pallescens (Guérin-Méneville). Uhmann 1952d:233 (transfer); 1958e:334 (catalog), 1963b:477 (museum list); Würmli 1976b:290 (revision), 1979:317 (faunal list); L. Medvedev 1996:261 (faunal list); Basu 1999:188 (distribution); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog).

Hispa (Dicladispa) palescecens (Guérin-Méneville) [sic]. Anand 1997:8 (morphology). Hispa pallida Guérin-Méneville 1841:13 (type: Senegal, MNHN?). Gemminger & Harold 1876:

3618 (catalog); Kraatz 1895:195 (faunal list); Weise 1897:147 (noted), 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog); Donckier 1899:609 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:878 (noted), 1935b:124 (museum list), 1936a:451 (faunal list), 1937g:378 (museum list), 1938e:118 (museum list), 1966d:278 (noted); Alfieri 1976:237 (faunal list); Würmli 1976b:290 (synonymy).

Dicladispa pallida (Guérin-Méneville). Gestro 1905b:554 (catalog); Uhmann 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1954h:193 (West Africa species), 1955g:457 (museum list), 1956f:342 (catalog), 1958e:334 (catalog), 1961a:82 (distribution), 1963b:474 (museum list), 1964a:481 (catalog), 1966a:16 (key), 1967c:258 (faunal list); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list).

Hispa pavida Weise 1901:234 (type: German East Africa, Mbungu; British East Africa, Mombas, ZMHB). Weise 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog); Uhmann 1928g:91 (key), 1931c:7 (noted), 1931i:878 (noted), 1934b:394 (museum list), 1938d:424 (distribution), 1938e:118 (museum list), 1945-1948:187 (sculpture), 1949f:42 (museum list), 1952d:235 (synonymy).

Dicladispa pavida (Weise). Gestro 1904a:174 (faunal list) 1905b:555 (catalog); Uhmann 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1956f:342 (catalog), 1957e:342 (faunal list), 1958e:334 (catalog), 1961a:57 (distribution), 1964a:481 (catalog), 1966a:16 (key).

Hispa holtzi Uhmann 1928g:88 (type: Narobi to Tanga, depository unknown). Uhmann 1931i: 878 (synonymy), 1945-1948:188 (type); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Hispa pallescens Guérin-Méneville. Chapuis 1879:29 (misattribution).


Distribution: Angola, Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India (Bihar, Pondicherry, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh), Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen, Zimbabwe. Food plant: Triumfetta rotundifolia Lam. (Tiliaceae), Abutilon sp. (Malvaceae) (Kadapa 1959).

Dicladispa pallidicornis (Gestro 1907) Hispa (Dicladispa) pallidicornis Gestro 1907:70 (type: Mount Kilimangiaro, HNHM). Hispa pallidicornis Gestro. Weise 1910c:241 (faunal list); 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:104

(catalog); Uhmann 1928g:90 (key), 1930g:79 (noted), 1931i:885 (noted), 1942a:29 (faunal list).

Dicladispa pallidicornis (Gestro). Uhmann 1954f:85 (faunal list), 1958e:334 (catalog), 1960d:379 (key), 1963e:253 (museum list), 1964a:481 (catalog), 1966a:19 (key).

Distribution: Congo, Kenya. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa palmata Uhmann 1961a Dicladispa palmata Uhmann 1961a:55 (type: Congo, Parc National de la Garamba, MRAC).

Uhmann 1964a:481 (catalog), 1966a:17 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:383 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Congo. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa parvula Uhmann 1960b Dicladispa parvula Uhmann 1960b:89 (type: Madagascar, Tongobory, ZUAC). Uhmann


Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa pembertoni Gressitt 1957b Dicladispa pembertoni Gressitt 1957b:321 (type: New Guinea, Middle Fly River, BPBM).

Gressitt 1960a:90 (New Guinea species), 1960b:713 (New Guinea species); Uhmann 1964a:481 (catalog); Würmli 1976b:294 (revision).

Distribution: New Guinea. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa perplexa (Péringuey 1898) Hispa perplexa Péringuey 1898:127 (type: South Africa, Tansvaal, Leydenburg; Zambesia,

Middle Limpopo, Victoria Falls; SAMC). Donckier 1899:609 (catalog); Weise 1901:240 (noted), 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog); Uhmann 1931c:8 (noted); 1931i:881 (museum list), 1935b:124 (museum list).


Dicladispa perplexa (Péringuey). Gestro 1905b:555 (catalog); Uhmann 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1956f:342 (catalog), 1957e:342 (faunal list), 1958e:335 (catalog), 1964a:481 (catalog), 1966a:15 (key).

Distribution: Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa pilosula Gestro 1914 Dicladispa pilosula Gestro 1914:291 (type: Taveta, MNHN). Uhmann 1958e:335 (catalog),

1961a:57 (distribution), 1964a:481 (catalog). Hispa pilosula (Gestro). Uhmann 1928g:89 (comparative note), 1931f:226 (museum list). Distribution: British East Africa, German East Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa platyclada Gestro 1906 Dicladispa platyclada Gestro 1906:499 (type: Congo, Chiloango, ISNB). Gestro 1905b:555

(catalog); Uhmann 1954f:76 (faunal list), 1954h:193 (West Africa species), 1958a:228 (faunal list), 1958e:335 (catalog), 1961a:57 (distribution), 1961c:507 (noted), 1964a:481 (catalog).

Hispa platyclada Gestro. Weise 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog); Uhmann 1930g:83 (noted), 1931i:886 (noted), 1935b:124 (museum list), 1936a:451 (faunal list).

Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Eritrea, South Africa. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa poeciloptera Gestro 1906b Dicladispa poeciloptera Gestro 1906b:493 (type: Derema; Pangain; Usambara; MCSN). Gestro

1905b:554 (catalog); Uhmann 1953b:33 (distribution), 1954f:76 (faunal list), 1958e:335 (catalog), 1960d:384 (noted), 1966a:20 (key).

Hispa poeciloptera Gestro. Weise 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog); Uhmann 1928g:90 (key), 1930g:68 (noted), 1931i:885 (noted), 1937g:378 (museum list). Hispa poeciloptera nigrata Uhmann 1936a:450 (type: Faradje, Teli, MRAC; Tanzania,

Morogoro, BMNH). Uhmann 1942a:31 (faunal list), 1945-1948:188 (type); Staines 1997b:417 (Uhmann species list).

Dicladispa poeciloptera nigrata (Uhmann). Uhmann 1958e:335 (catalog), 1961a:57 (distribution), 1964a:481 (catalog), 1966a:20 (key).

Distribution: Congo, Kenya, Tanzania. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa propinqua Uhmann 1958f Dicladispa propinqua Uhmann 1958f:494 (type: Tanzania, Mibeya, BMNH). Uhmann

1960d:380 (key), 1964a:481 (catalog), 1966a:20 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:385 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Tanzania. Food plant: Unknown.


Dicladispa proxima (Weise 1910b) Hispa proxima Weise 1910b:162 (type: German East Africa, Lindi, ZMHB). Weise 1911a:72

(catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog); Uhmann 1928g:90 (key), 1930g:78 (noted), 1931i:885 (noted), 1936a:450 (faunal list).

Dicladispa proxima (Weise). Uhmann 1953b:33 (distribution), 1954f:77 (faunal list), 1957j:124 (faunal list), 1958a:226 (faunal list), 1958e:335 (catalog), 1960d:384 (noted), 1961a:57 (distribution), 1964a:482 (catalog), 1966a:19 (key).

Distribution: Angola, Congo, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, German East Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa quadrifida (Gerstäcker 1871) Hispa quadrifida Gerstäcker 1871:85 (type: Zanzibar, ISNB, ZMHU). Gerstäcker 1873:289

(faunal list); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:52 (noted); Kraatz 1895:198 (comparative note); Weise 1897:128 (redescription), 1910c:241 (faunal list), 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog), 1926:28 (museum list); Donckier 1899:610 (catalog); Uhmann 1928g:83 (comparative note), 1930g:77 (key), 1931c:6 (noted), 1931i:884 (noted), 1936a:450 (faunal list).

Dicladispa quadrifida (Gerstäcker). Gestro 1905b:553 (catalog); Uhmann 1931f:226 (museum list), 1953b:33 (distribution), 1954f:85 (faunal list), 1955g:457 (museum list), 1956f:342 (catalog), 1957e:342 (faunal list), 1958e:335 (catalog), 1960d:380 (key), 1964a:482 (catalog), 1966a:19 (key).

Hispa goetzeni Uhmann 1928g:83 (type: Kahama, depository unknown). Uhmann 1931i:884 (noted), 1954f:85 (synonymy); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Hispa zanzibarica Donckier 1899:613 (unnecessary replacement name). Weise 1901:239 (nomenclature).

Hispa quadrifida var. Chapuis 1877:52 (noted); Weise 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog). Distribution: Congo, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, British East Africa, German East Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa radiatilis (Uhmann 1930g) Hispa radiatilis Uhmann 1930g:83 (type: Congo, Elisabethville, MRAC). Staines 1997b:417

(Uhmann species list). Dicladispa radiatilis (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:77 (faunal list), 1958e:236 (catalog), 1960d:386

(noted), 1961a:58 (distribution), 1964a:482 (catalog), 1966a:13 (key). Distribution: Congo. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa ramifera (Uhmann 1928g) Hispa ramifera Uhmann 1928g:82 (type: German East Africa, Mittlerer Rufiji, ZMHB).

Uhmann 1931i:880 (noted); Staines 1997b:417 (Uhmann species list). Dicladispa ramifera (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:85 (faunal list), 1956f:342 (catalog), 1958e:236

(catalog), 1966a:21 (key). Distribution: South Africa, Tanzania. Food plant: Unknown.


Dicladispa ramulosa (Chapuis 1877) Hispa ramulosa Chapuis 1877:53 (type: Cafrerie, ISNB). Gestro 1898c:713 (noted); Péringuey

1898:130 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:610 (catalog); Weise 1897:147 (noted), 1911a:72 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:886 (noted), 1934b:394 (museum list).

Dicladispa ramulosa (Chapuis). Gestro 1905b:555 (catalog); Uhmann 1953i:7 (noted), 1954f:85 (faunal list), 1956f:342 (faunal list), 1957e:342 (faunal list), 1958e:336 (catalog), 1966a:17 (key).


Dicladispa rhodesiaca Uhmann 1954f Dicladispa rhodesiaca Uhmann 1954f:78 (type: N.W. Rhodesia, Lukanga, DEI). Uhmann

1958e:336 (catalog), 1966a:21 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:386 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa romani (Uhmann 1935b) Hispa romani Uhmann 1935b:125 (type: Africa, Matabele, NHRS). Uhmann 1938e:118

(museum list), 1945-1948:188 (sculpture), 1948d:2 (type); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:387 (types); Staines 1997b:417 (Uhmann species list).

Dicladispa romani (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:85 (faunal list), 1956f:342 (catalog), 1957e:342 (faunal list), 1958e:336 (catalog), 1966a:10 (key).

Distribution: South Africa, Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa saga (Gestro 1908) Hispa (Dicladispa) saga Gestro 1908:132 (type: Madagascar, Sud della Baja di Antongil,

NMNH). Gestro 1909b:293 (distribution); Weise 1910d:503 (faunal list). Hispa saga Gestro. Weise 1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:106 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:886 (noted). Dicladispa saga (Gestro). Uhmann 1958e:336 (catalog), 1964a:482 (catalog); Descarpentries &

Villiers 1959b:505 (types). Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa (Eutrichispa) schoutedeni (Gestro 1923) Thoracispa schoutedeni Gestro 1923:19 (type: Congo, Zuwani, MRAC). Dicladispa (Eutrichispa) schoutedeni (Gestro). Uhmann 1958e:343 (catalog), 1966a:18 (key). Distribution: British East Africa. Food plant: Unknown.


Dicladispa scutellata Uhmann 1958f Dicladispa scutellata Uhmann 1958f:495 (type: East Africa, Tanzania, BMNH). Uhmann

1964a:482 (catalog), 1966a:13 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:388 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Tanzania. Food plant: Unknown. Dicladispa sebakuena Péringuey 1908 Dicladispa sebakuena Péringuey 1908:339 (type: Southern Rhodesia, Sebakwe, SAMC).

Uhmann 1956f:342 (catalog), 1958e:336 (catalog). Hispa sebakuena (Péringuey). Weise 1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog). Distribution: Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa spiculata Uhmann 1957c Dicladispa spiculata Uhmann 1957c:97 (type: South Africa, Kapland, TMSA). Hering 1957:85

(host plant); Uhmann 1961a:59 (host plant), 1964a:482 (catalog), 1966a:14 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:390 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Malvastrum scabrosum (L.) Stapf. (Malvaceae) (Hering 1957). Dicladispa spinosissima (Gestro 1909c) Brachispa spinosissima Gestro 1909c:197 (type: South Africa, Natal, MCSN). Weise 1911a:63

(catalog), 1911b:95 (catalog); Uhmann 1956f:341 (catalog), 1958e:278 (catalog), 1964a:470 (catalog); Monrós 1959:32 (illustration).


Dicladispa spinifera (Uhmann 1935b) Hispa spinifera Uhmann 1935b:124 (type: South Africa, NHRS). Uhmann 1948d:2 (type);

Gaedike & Döbler 1971:390 (types); Staines 1997b:417 (Uhmann species list). Dicladispa spinifera (Uhmann). Uhmann 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1956f:342 (catalog), 1958e:337

(catalog), 1966a:14 (key). Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa straeleni Uhmann 1954f Dicladispa straeleni Uhmann 1954f:80 (type: Congo, Parc National de l’Upemba, MRAC).

Uhmann 1958e:337 (catalog), 1960d:379 (key), 1964a:482 (catalog), 1966a:20 (key), 1967c:258 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:390 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Congo.



Dicladispa straminea (Péringuey 1898) Hispa straminea Péringuey 1898:128 (type: South Africa, Cape Colony, SAMC). Donckier

1899:611 (catalog); Weise 1901:240 (noted), 1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog). Dicladispa straminea (Péringuey). Gestro 1905b:555 (catalog); Uhmann 1956f:342 (catalog),

1958e:337 (catalog), 1966a:16 (key). Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa striaticollis (Gestro 1906b) Hispa striaticollis Gestro 1906b:491 (type: Niger, MCSN). Weise 1910c:241 (faunal list);

1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog); Morstatt 1913:288 (faunal list); Uhmann 1928g:90 (comparative note), 1930g:78 (key), 1931i:885 (noted), 1936d:413 (museum list), 1942a:30 (faunal list); Maulik 1937:155 (host plant); Speyer 1954:367 (host plant).

Dicladispa striaticollis (Gestro). Gestro 1905b:553 (catalog); Uhmann 1953b:33 (distribution), 1954h:193 (West Africa species), 1955c:245 (distribution), 1955g:457 (museum list), 1956f:337 (museum list), 1957f:305 (museum list), 1958a:226 (faunal list), 1958e:337 (catalog), 1961a:58 (distribution), 1964a:482 (catalog), 1966a:21 (key); Barrion & Litsinger 1994:176 (key); Santiago-Blay 2004:63 (host plants).

Hispa alutacea Uhmann 1928g:90 (type: German East Africa, Amani, ZMHB). Uhmann 1930f:169 (museum list), 1930g:78 (key), 1931i:885 (synonymy), 1946a:17 (type); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:364 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Hispa torulosa (Chapuis). Weise 1897:129 (misidentification). Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda.

Food plants: Oryza sativa L. (Morstatt 1913); Zea mays L. (Maulik 1937) (Poaceae).

Dicladispa stuhlmanni (Uhmann 1928g) Hispa stuhlmanni Uhmann 1928g:84 (type: Urungu; Bismarckburg, MRAC). Uhmann 1930g:

82 (noted), 1931i:883 (noted); Staines 1997b:417 (Uhmann species list). Dicladispa stuhlmanni (Uhmann). Uhmann 1953b:33 (distribution), 1954f:85 (faunal list),

1958e:337 (catalog), 1966a:21 (key). Distribution: Congo, Tanzania. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa subhirta (Chapuis 1877) Hispa subhirta Chapuis 1877:52 (type: Madagascar, ISNB). Weise 1897:147 (noted), 1909:120

(noted), 1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog); Donckier 1899:611 (catalog); Alluaud 1900:329 (faunal list).

Dicladispa subhirta (Chapuis). Gestro 1900b:289 (Madagascar species); Uhmann 1958e:337 (catalog), 1964a:482 (catalog).

Hispa (Dicladispa) subhirta (Chapuis). Weise 1910d:503 (faunal list). Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown.


Dicladispa tenuispina Gestro 1906b Dicladispa tenuispina Gestro 1906b:497 (type: Derema; Pangani; MCSN, ZMHB). Gestro

1905b:555 (catalog); Uhmann 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1958e:337 (catalog), 1966a:13 (key).

Hispa tenuispina (Gestro). Weise 1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog). Hispa (Dicladispa) tenuispina Gestro. Uhmann 1931i:876 (noted). Hispa petersi Uhmann 1928g:87 (type: Pugu; Rufiji-Delta; Mtita; East Usambara, ZMHB).

Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list). Hispa tenuispina petersi Uhmann. Uhmann 1931i:876 (status), 1949b:680 (noted). Dicladispa tenuispina petersi (Uhmann). Uhmann 1958e:337 (catalog), 1966a:13 (key). Distribution: Congo, Kenya, Uganda. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa terribilis Demaux 1965 Dicladispa terribilis Demaux 1965:196 (type: Madagascar, near Maroantsetra, Demaux). Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa testacea (Linnaeus 1767) Hispa testacea Linnaeus 1767:603 (type: Barbaria, LSUK). Müller 1774:204 (catalog); Fabricius

1775:71 (noted), 1781:83 (noted), 1787:47 (noted), 1792:71 (noted), 1801b:59 (noted); Linnaeus 1788:1732 (noted); Gmelin 1790:1732 (noted); Rossi 1790:52 (noted); Olivier 1792:98 (noted), 1808:762 (noted); Illiger 1804a:131 (noted), 1804b:169 (noted); Gyllenhal 1817:2 (noted); Schönherr 1817:4 (catalog); Dejean 1821:115 (collection list); Latreille 1829:142 (noted); Lamarck 1835:500 (noted); Voigt 1839:324 (noted); Guérin-Méneville 1841:12 (comparative note); Berge 1844:87 (noted); Küster 1848:500 (faunal list); Lucas 1849:514 (faunal list); Laporte & Laporte 1852:175 (faunal list); Perris 1855:260 (larva); Fairmaire 1868:72 (faunal list); Chenu & Desmarest 1870:341 (noted); Chapuis 1875:334 (type species), 1877:51 (noted); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Martorell & Pena 1876:360 (faunal list); Gobert 1880:156 (faunal list); Oertzen 1886:291 (faunal list); Bedel 1889-1901:405 (faunal list); Weise 1893:1063 (catalog), 1897:147 (noted), 1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog), 1922a:32 (museum list); Acloque 1896:456 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:612 (catalog); Lesne 1904:68 (biology); Heyden et al. 1906:582 (catalog); Champion 1907:170 (faunal list); Reitter 1912:213 (faunal list), 1927:34 (Palearctic species); Kuhnt 1913:890 (faunal list); Reh 1913:532 (noted); Zacher 1913:102 (noted); Apfelbeck 1914:448 (distribution); Gestro 1916:77 (noted), 1919:343 (host plant); Maulik 1919:247 (noted), 1937:155 (host plant), 1939:131 (distribution); Dudlich 1920:153 (stridulation); Frost 1924:464 (host plants); Needham et al. 1928:197 (biology); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Buhr 1930:130, 131 (host plants); Amsel & Hering 1931:127 (host plant); Uhmann 1931c:6 (noted), 1948b:74 (noted), 1949a:9 (key), 19451948:187 (sculpture); Porta 1934:372 (Italy species); Portevin 1934:318 (France species); Grandi 1935:19 (larva), 1951:841 (noted); Wittmer 1935:287 (faunal list); Deville 1938:370 (faunal list); Monrós & Viana 1947:127 (distribution);


Gridelli 1950:251 (distribution); Risbec 1950a:378 (noted); Novak 1952:329 (faunal list), 1970:43 (faunal list); Cleu 1953:37 (faunal list); Müller 1953:594 (Italy species); Cobos 1954:154 (faunal list); Karnožickij 1959:251 (faunal list); Magistretti & Ruffo 1959:118 (biology); Steinhausen 1965:33 (faunal list); Mohr 1966:376 (faunal list); Hering 1967:5, 30, 31 (host plants) ; Geisthardt 1975:18 (faunal list); Lopatin 1981:376 (faunal list); Mann & Crowson 1983b:2 (noted), 1985a:79 (male genitalia); Bounechada 1994:246 (faunal list); Mann & Crowson 1996:301 (internal sac); Chaboo 2007:47 (noted); Özdikmen & Kaya 2014:60 (distribution).

Hispa testacea Fabricius. Dejean 1837:390 (misattribution, collection list). Hispa (Dicladispa) testacea Linnaeus. Gestro 1897b:81 (noted), 1916:77 (noted). Dicladispa testacea (Linnaeus). Uhmann 1952d:233 (transfer), 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1958e:328

(catalog), 1964a:482 (catalog), 1965b:118 (pupa), 1966a:9 (key); Jolivet 1954:289 (faunal list); Tzanakakis et al. 1963:422 (faunal list); Gruev 1968:64 (faunal list), 1979:141 (faunal list), 1980b:89 (faunal list), 1986:344 (faunal list), 1990b:350 (faunal list), 1992:403 (faunal list), 2005:353 (faunal list); Tomov & Gruev 1975:150 (faunal list), 1987:264 (faunal list); Würmli 1976b:290 (revision); Daccordi 1977:90 (faunal list); Daccordi & Petitpierre 1977:234 (faunal list); Schmitt et al. 1982:31 (eyes); Alegre & Petitpierre 1984:329 (genetics), 1990:82 (genetics); Gruev & Tomov 1986:344 (faunal list), 2007:297 (faunal list); Ratti 1987:53 (faunal list); Petitpierre et al. 1988:179 (chromosomes); Kismali 1989:87 (faunal list), 1999:109 (museum list); Schmitt 1989:532 (tarsal setae), 1991:266 (stridulation), 1994:324 (stridulation); García-Ocejo et al. 1992:89 (faunal list); Petitpierre et al. 1993:3 (chromosomes); Steinhausen 1994:306 (larvae), 2002:22 (pupa); Biondi et al. 1995:646 (faunal list); Cox 1996a:172 (pupa); Biondi & Laurenzi 1997:502 (faunal list); Baselga & Novoa 1999:311 (museum list), 2000a:119 (faunal list), 2000b:175 (faunal list), 2002:67 (faunal list), 2006:226 (Spain species); Bordy 2000:63 (France species); Warchalowski 2000:116 (Poland species), 2003:556 (Europe species); Vives 2000:17 (faunal list); Vig 2003:159 (faunal list); Gök & Çilbiroğlu 2003:71 (faunal list); Lopatin et al. 2003:108 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:63 (host plants); Cermann & Moretti 2006:8 (distribution); Chaboo 2007:62 (noted); Maican & Serafim 2009:426 (faunal list); Petitpierre 2009:62 (faunal list); Şen & Gök 2009:222 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog); Sekerka 2010:2 (faunal list); Julio et al. 2010:30 (noted); Özdikmen 2011:614 (faunal list); D’Alessandro & Biondi 2011:561 (faunal list); Alziar & Lemaire 2012:62, 82 (faunal list); Ekiz et al. 2013:2271 (faunal list); Świętojańska et al. 2014:1 (immatures). Hispella testacea (Linnaeus). Bourdonné & Bordy 1993:86 (faunal list).

Hispa capensis testacea Linnaeus. Thunberg 1784:66 (noted). Hispa algeriana Guérin-Méneville 1841:12 (type: Algeria, NMHN?). Lucas 1849:515 (faunal

list); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:51 (noted); Leprieur 1883:LXXX (synonymy); Donckier 1899:602 (catalog); Uhmann 1966d:279 (noted).

Hispa testacea algeriana Guérin-Méneville. Weise 1897:147 (noted), 1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:103 (catalog); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Uhmann 1949b:43 (museum list); Alfieri 1976:237 (faunal list).

Dicladispa testacea algeriana (Guérin-Méneville). Uhmann 1963b:474 (museum list), 1966a:9 (key).


Hispa numida Guérin-Méneville 1841:14 (type: Algeria, MNHN?). Chapuis 1877:51 (noted); Donckier 1899:608 (catalog); Uhmann 1966d:279 (noted).

Hispa numidica Guérin-Méneville (sic). Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (lapsus calami, catalog); Weise 1911b:73 (synonymy).

Hispa testacea numidica Guérin-Méneville. Weise 1897:147 (noted); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog). Distribution: Albania, Algeria, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Crete, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey. Food plants: Cistus salviifolius L. (Laporte & Laporte 1852); C. monspeliensis L., C. albidus L. (Lesne 1904); C. hirsutus Lam., C. incanus Rch., C. albidus crispus Del., C. florentinus Lam. (Grandi 1935); C. villosus (Amsel & Hering 1931); C. salvifolius L. (Hering 1967); C. landaniger L. (García-Ocejo et al. 1992) (Cistaceae); Halimium sp., Helianthemum sp., Pistacia lentiscus L. (Anacardiaceae) (Biondi et al. 1995).

Dicladispa torulosa (Chapuis 1877) Hispa torulosa Chapuis 1877:52 (type: Cafrerie, ISNB). Péringuey 1898:126 (faunal list);

Donckier 1899:612 (catalog); Weise 1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog); Uhmann 1931c:7 (noted), 1931i:883 (key), 1942a:30 (faunal list).

Dicladispa torulosa (Chapuis). Gestro 1905b:553 (catalog), 1906b:492 (noted), 1911b:32 (noted), 1914:288 (faunal list); Uhmann 1954f:85 (faunal list), 1955g:457 (museum list), 1956f:337 (museum list), 1957e:342 (faunal list), 1958e:339 (catalog), 1966a:22 (key).

Distribution: Congo, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa traversii Gestro 1906b Dicladispa traversii Gestro 1906b:490 (type: Scioa, MCSN). Gestro 1905b:553 (catalog);

Uhmann 1954f:85 (faunal list), 1954h:193 (West Africa species), 1956f:342 (catalog), 1958e:339 (catalog), 1960d:386 (noted), 1964a:482 (catalog), 1966a:20 (key).

Hispa traversii (Gestro). Weise 1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog); Uhmann 1930g:78 (noted), 1934b:393 (museum list). Distribution: Ethiopia, Guinea, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa triramosa Gestro 1908 Dicladispa triramosa Gestro 1908:132 (type: Madagascar, BMNH). Gestro 1909b:294

(distribution); Uhmann 1958e:339 (catalog), 1960b:88 (noted), 1960e:271 (faunal list), 1964a:482 (catalog).

Hispa triramosa (Gestro). Weise 1909:120 (noted), 1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:106 (catalog). Hispa (Dicladispa) triramosa (Gestro). Weise 1910d:503 (faunal list). Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown.


Dicladispa trux Uhmann 1954i Dicladispa trux Uhmann 1954i:52 (type: Madagascar, Mt. d’Ambre, MNHN?). Uhmann

1958e:339 (catalog), 1960b:89 (noted), 1960e:271 (faunal list), 1964c:177 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:392 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).


Dicladispa uhmanniella Demaux 1963a Dicladispa uhmanniella Demaux 1963a:32 (type: Madagascar, Fénérive, MNHN). Dicladispa longispinosa (Fairmaire). Uhmann 1954:49 (misidentification); Demaux 1963a:31

(correction). Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown.

Dicladispa usambarica (Weise 1898) Hispa usambarica Weise 1898:223 (type: Usambara, Kwai, DEI, ZMHB). Weise 1911a:73

(catalog), 1911b:104 (catalog); Uhmann 1931c:7 (noted), 1931i:884 (noted), 1949b:679 (host plant); Risbec 1950a:383 (host plants), 1950b:147 (noted); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:393 (types).

Dicladispa usambarica (Weise). Gestro 1905b:553 (catalog); Uhmann 1954f:85 (faunal list), 1954h:193 (West Africa species), 1956g:79 (faunal list), 1958e:339 (catalog), 1960d:379 (key), 1961a:58 (distribution), 1963b:474 (museum list), 1964a:482 (catalog), 1966a:20 (key); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list). Distribution: Congo, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal. Food plant: Oryza sativa L. (Poaceae) (Uhmann 1949b)

Dicladispa varii Uhmann 1957c Dicladispa varii Uhmann 1957c:99 (type: South Africa, Pretoria, TMSA). Hering 1957:84 (host

plant); Uhmann 1958a:223 (pupa), 1961a:60 (host plant), 1964a:482 (catalog), 1966a:16 (key); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:393 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Rhynchosia confusa Burtt. Davy (Fabaceae) (Uhmann 1957c).

Dicladispa vexatrix (Péringuey 1898) Hispa vexatrix Péringuey 1898:126 (type: South Africa, Natal, Eshowe, SAMC). Donckier

1899:612 (catalog); Weise 1901:240 (noted), 1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog); Uhmann 1938c:115 (museum list).

Dicladispa vexatrix (Péringuey). Gestro 1905b:554 (catalog); Uhmann 1956f:342 (catalog), 1958e:340 (catalog), 1966a:21 (key).



Dicladispa vicinalis (Péringuey 1898) Hispa vicinalis Péringuey 1898:126 (type: South Africa, Natal, Verulam, Malvern; Transvaal,

Leydenburg; Zambesia, Salisbury, SAMC). Donckier 1899:612 (catalog); Weise 1901:240 (noted), 1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:878 (noted), 1935i:177 (faunal list), 1937g:379 (museum list), 1938d:424 (distribution), 1949b:680 (noted).

Dicladispa vicinalis (Péringuey). Gestro 1905b:555 (catalog); Uhmann 1954f:84 (faunal list), 1955g:457 (museum list), 1956f:342 (catalog), 1957c:101 (pupa), 1958e:340 (catalog), 1958f:491 (distribution), 1961a:60 (host plant), 1964a:483 (catalog), 1966a:16 (key), 1966a:30 (lectotype); Hering 1957:85 (host plant); Santiago-Blay 2004:63 (host plants).

Distribution: Angola, Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe. Food plant: Grewia occidentalis L. (Tiliaceae) (Hering 1957; Uhmann 1957c).

Incerte Sedis Dicladispa capensis (Thunberg 1784) Hispa capensis Thunberg 1784:66 (type: locality not mentioned, depository unknown). Gmelin

1790:1733 (noted); Olivier 1792:98 (noted); Linnaeus 1788:1733 (noted); Gyllenhal 1817:2 (noted); Schönherr 1817:5 (catalog); Guérin-Méneville 1841:13 (comparative note); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:51 (redescription); Kraatz 1895:195 (noted); Weise 1897:147 (noted), 1904b:448 (noted), 1911a:73 (catalog), 1911b:105 (catalog); Péringuey 1898:128 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:603 (catalog).

Dicladispa capensis (Thunberg). Gestro 1905b:554 (catalog); Uhmann 1956f:341 (catalog), 1958e:340 (catalog), 1958c:83 (redescription), 1964a:482 (catalog), 1966a:33 (noted).

Distribution: Cap bon. Spei. Food plant: Unknown.

Dorcathispa Weise 1900c Hispella (Cerathispa) Weise 1900a:213. Type species: Cerathispa alternata Weise, by

monotypy. Dorcathispa Weise 1900c:458 (replacement name for Hispella (Cerathispa)). Weise 1905f:318

(key), 1911a:62 (catalog), 1911b:93 (redescription), 1926:226 (faunal list); Péringuey 1908:341 (South Africa species); Uhmann 1931i:850 (museum list), 1940g:122 (claws), 1942a:12 (faunal list), 1943d:203 (sculpture), 1954f:34 (faunal list), 1958e:273 (catalog), 1961a:71 (faunal list), 1964a:469 (catalog); Maulik 1939:147 (noted); Monrós 1959:32 (illustration); Würmli 1975a:66 (genera); Nayar et al. 1976:353 (noted); Medler 1980:264 (faunal list); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog), Silfverberg 1985:270 (noted); Jolivet 1989b:312 (host plants); Jolivet & Hawkeswood 1995:156 (host plants); Santiago-Blay 2004:63 (host plants); Chaboo 2007:116 (noted).

Cerathispa Weise. Gestro 1899e:552 (noted); Weise 1901:458 (replacement name). Dorcatispa Weise (sic). Gestro 1904a:172 (lapsus calami), 1905b:556 (catalog); 1914:280

(faunal list).


Hispa (Podispa) Chapuis 1875:335. Type species: Hispa bellicosa Guérin-Méneville, by original designation. Chapuis 1877:51 (noted); Weise 1893:1061 (faunal list), 1897:143 (synonymy); Kraatz 1895:196 (faunal list); Péringuey 1898:117 (faunal list).

Dorcathispa alternata (Weise 1900a) Hispella (Cerathispa) alternata Weise 1900a:213 (type: Mombo, ZMHB). Weise 1904b:449

(comparative note), 1911a:62 (catalog), 1911b:93 (catalog). Dorcathispa alternata (Weise). Weise 1910c:244 (faunal list), 1926:226 (faunal list); Alluaud

& Jeannel 1914:280 (faunal list) (as synonym of Dorcathispa bellicosa); Uhmann 1928g:72 (as synonym of Dorcathispa bellicosa), 1931f:226 (museum list), 1931g:160 (distribution), 1931i:850 (noted), 1934b:391 (museum list), 1935i:177 (faunal list), 1936a:443 (faunal list), 1937g:373 (museum list), 1942a:12 (faunal list), 1943d:206 (sculpture), 1953b:21 (distribution), 1954f:34 (faunal list), 1955c:242 (distribution), 1955g:456 (museum list), 1956f:337 (museum list), 1957e:337 (faunal list), 1957f:305 (museum list), 1958e:273 (catalog), 1961a:71 (distribution), 1964a:469 (catalog), 1968a:362 (faunal list); Jolivet 1953:1545.

Dorcatispa alternata (Weise). Gestro 1905b:556 (catalog). Dorcathispa bellicosa (Guérin-Méneville). Uhmann 1928g:72 (misidentification). Uhmann

1954f:34 (correction). Distribution: Angola, Congo, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown.

Dorcathispa bellicosa (Guérin-Méneville 1841) Hispa bellicosa Dejean 1837:390 Nomen Nudum. Hispa bellicosa Guérin-Méneville 1841:9 (type: Senegal, MNHN?). Gemminger & Harold

1876:3617 (catalog); Chapuis 1880:29 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:603 (catalog); Uhmann 1966d:277 (types).

Hispa (Hispella) bellicosa Guérin-Méneville. Chapuis 1877:51 (noted). Hispella bellicosa (Guérin-Méneville). Weise 1897:146 (noted). Hispa (Cerathispa) bellicosa Guérin-Méneville. Weise 1900a:213 (comparative note). Dorcathispa bellicosa (Guérin-Méneville). Gestro 1904a:173 (faunal list), 1911b:33 (noted);

Weise 1910c:244 (comparative note), 1911a:62 (catalog), 1911b:93 (catalog), 1918:271 (noted); Alluaud & Jeannel 1914:280 (faunal list); Achard 1917:67 (distribution); Uhmann 1928g:72 (faunal list), 1931c:3 (museum list), 1931i:852 (noted), 1954l:1114 (museum list), 1954h:197 (West Africa species), 1956g:79 (faunal list), 1958e:274 (catalog), 1961a:82 (distribution), 1964a:469 (catalog), 1968a:362 (faunal list), 1969:299 (faunal list); Hargreaves 1937:508 (host plants); Gomes Alves 1949:114 (distribution), 1951:184 (distribution); Risbec 1950a:386, 390 (host plants), 1950b:103 (biology); Descamps 1956:752 (host plant); Grist & Lever 1969:227 (noted); Bouček 1976:680 (parasites); Tiberghien 1976:180 (faunal list); Medler 1980:264 (faunal list); Silfverberg 1985:270 (illustration); Heinrichs & Barrion 2004:64 (pest status).

Dorcatispa bellicosa (Guérin-Méneville). Gestro 1905b:538 (faunal list), 1914:280 (faunal list).


Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Eritrea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Mozambique, Portugese Guinea, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somali, South Africa, Togo, Uganda. Food plants: Zea mays L., Sorghum vulgare Pers., other grasses (Hargreaves 1937); millet (Risbec 1950a) (Poaceae).

Dorcathispa extrema (Péringuey 1898) Podispa extrema Péringuey 1898:117 (type: South Africa, Cape Colony, Prieska; Natal,

Malvern, SAMC). Donckier 1899:605 (catalog); Gestro 1905:173 (as synonym of D. bellicosa).

Dorcathispa extrema (Péringuey). Weise 1901:239 (transfer), 1904b:449 (noted), 1911a:62 (catalog), 1911b:93 (catalog), 1914:271 (faunal list); Gestro 1905b:538 (comparative note); Péringuey 1908:341 (nomenclature); Alluaud & Jennel 1914:281 (faunal list); Uhmann 1931c:3 (museum list), 1931f:226 (museum list), 1931i:851 (noted), 1934b:391 (museum list), 1943d:206 (sculpture), 1955g:456 (museum list), 1956f:340 (catalog), 1957e:337 (faunal list), 1958e:274 (catalog), 1964a:469 (catalog).

Dorcathispa bellicosa (Guérin-Méneville). Gestro 1905:173 (misidentification). Gestro 1906:538 (correction).


Hispa Linnaeus 1767 Hispa Linnaeus 1767:603. Type species: Hispa atra Linnaeus 1767, designated by Chapuis

1875. Müller 1774:203 (catalog); Paykull 1799:151 (noted); Gmelin 1790:1732 (noted); Rossi 1790:50 (noted); Fabricius 1792:70 (noted), 1801b:58 (noted); Latreille 1802:231 (description), 1807:49 (description), 1810:432 (noted), 1829:142 (redescription), 1836:127 (redescription); Gyllenhal 1820:448 (redescription); Hope 1836:142 (noted); Dejean 1837:390 (collection list); Voigt 1838:391 (noted), 1839:324 (noted); Blanchard 1845:181 (noted), 1849:509 (noted); Lacordaire 1845:XL (larva); Gistl 1851:122 (noted); Bose 1859:638 (faunal list); Thomson 1866:316 (redescription); Fairmaire 1868:259 (redescription), 1869:258 (faunal list); Chenu & Desmarest 1870:340 (noted); Crotch 1870:44 (noted); Girard 1873:785 (noted); Redtenbacher 1874:519 (redescription); Chapuis 1875:333 (redescription), 1876:xxv (faunal list), 1877:50 (noted); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Martorell & Pena 1876:360 (faunal list); Chenu 1884:340 (noted); Schönfeldt 1887:156 (Japan species); Gahan 1891:371 (mimicry), 1900:438 (stridulation); Weise 1893:1061 (key), 1897:145 (key), 1905f:317 (key); Kraatz 1895:194 (faunal list); Gestro 1897b:81 (noted), 1899(1901):330 (nomenclature), 1901b:437 (noted); Péringuey 1898:118 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:601 (catalog); Heyden et al. 1906:582 (catalog); MaxwellLefroy 1909:364 (noted); Kuhnt 1913:890 (faunal list); Maulik 1915:379 (museum list), 1916:576 (museum list), 1919:247 (India species), 1939:147 (noted); Handlirsch 1925:666 (classification); Reitter 1927:34 (Palearctic species); Deville 1938:370 (faunal list); Uhmann 1931i:875 (museum list), 1940g:122 (claws), 1942a:29 (faunal list), 1949a:9 (key), 1945-1948:186 (sculpture), 1952d:231


(nomenclature), 1954h:184 (faunal list), 1958e:268 (catalog), 1964a:469 (catalog); Chûjô 1933:331 (Taiwan species); Liu 1936:254 (China species); Gressitt 1950:100 (China species); Barber 1951:17 (nomenclature); Grandi 1951:840 (noted); Chen et al. 1962:121 (faunal list); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:915 (China species); Mohr 1966:271 (faunal list); Crowson 1967:154 (noted); Würmli 1975a:66 (genera), 1976d:317 (revision); Nayar et al. 1976:353 (noted); DeRoe & Pasteels 1982:79 (defense); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); Anand 1984:11 (noted), 1989:6 (India species), 1997:5 (morphology); Chen et al. 1986:358 (China species); Gruev 1986:342 (faunal list); Jolivet 1988b:14 (host plants), 1989b:312 (host plants); Burakowski et al. 1991:161 (faunal list); Steinhausen 1994:306 (larvae); Gruev 1992:404 (faunal list), 1998:38 (faunal list); Jolivet & Hawkeswood 1995:156 (host plants); Hansen 1996:185 (faunal list); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list); Basu 1999:175 (distribution); Kimoto 1999:119 (southeast Asia species); Bordy 2000:59 (France species); Warchalowski 2000:115 (Poland species), 2003:555 (Europe species); Santiago-Blay 2004:66 (host plants); Maican 2005:129 (faunal list); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 2005:334 (Nepal species); Chaboo 2007:45 (noted); Gruev & Tomov 2007:297 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog).

Hispella Chapuis 1875:334 (not Linnaeus). Type species: Hispa atra Linnaeus, by original designation. Chapuis 1877:50 (noted); Bedel 1889-1901:329 (faunal list); Weise 1893:1064 (faunal list), 1897:143 (noted), 1900a:213 (noted), 1905f:318 (key), 1911a:61 (catalog), 1911b:92 (description); Gestro 1897b:79 (noted), 1899:330 (synonymy); Péringuey 1898:118 (faunal list); Heyden 1906:583 (catalog); Reitter 1912:213 (faunal list), 1927:34 (Palearctic species); Kuhnt 1913:890 (faunal list); Apfelbeck 1914:448 (distribution); Maulik 1915:374 (key), 1916:575 (museum list), 1919:156 (India species), 1939:149 (distribution); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Liu 1936:250 (China species); Wu 1937:913 (faunal list); Deville 1938:370 (faunal list); Gressitt 1938:325 (faunal list); Uhmann 1940g:122 (claws); Barber 1951:17 (synonymy); Grandi 1951:840 (noted); Müller 1953:594 (Italy species); L. Medvedev 1957:295 (key); Mohr 1966:271 (faunal list); Crowson 1967:154 (noted); Koch 1992:134 (faunal list); Anand 1997:5 (morphology); Jolivet 1997b:98 (noted).

Hispa atra Linnaeus 1767 Hispa atra Linnaeus 1767:603 (type: Europe austral, LSUK). Müller 1774:203 (catalog);

Fabricius 1775:71 (noted), 1781:83 (noted), 1787:48 (noted), 1792:70 (noted), 1801b:58 (noted); Herbst 1779:324 (noted); Linnaeus 1788:1732 (noted); Gmelin 1790:1732 (noted); Rossi 1790:52 (noted); Olivier 1792:98 (noted), 1808:763 (noted); Paykull 1799:151 (noted); Latreille 1802:232 (description), 1807:49 (description), 1810:432 (catalog), 1829:142 (noted); Illiger 1804a:131 (noted), 1804b:169 (noted); Panzer 1805:8 (faunal list); Gyllenhal 1813:449 (redescription), 1817:1 (noted), 1820:449 (noted); Germar 1817:414 (faunal list); Schönherr 1817:3 (catalog); Dejean 1821:115 (collection list); Gebler 1829:197 (noted), 1848:8 (faunal list); Lamarck 1835:500 (noted); Gistl 1851:122 (noted); Kirby 1837:227 (noted); Voigt 1838:391 (noted), 1839:324 (noted); Castelnau 1840:511 (noted); Guérin-Méneville 1841:9 (comparative note); Berge 1844:87 (faunal list); Blanchard 1845:186 (noted), 1849:509 (noted); Küster 1845:3


(faunal list); Lucas 1849:515 (faunal list); Gistl & Bromme 1850:402 (noted); Laporte & Laporte 1852:175 (faunal list); Bach 1856:72 (faunal list); Bose 1859:639 (faunal list); Motschulsky 1861:238 (noted); Stierlin 1861:226 (faunal list); Thomson 1866:317 (faunal list); Chenu & Desmarest 1870:341 (noted); Crotch 1870:44 (noted); Redtenbacher 1874:519 (faunal list); Chapuis 1875:281 (noted); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Martorell & Pena 1876:360 (faunal list); Heyden 1879:87 (faunal list); Gobert 1880:156 (faunal list); Oertzen 1886:291 (faunal list); Seidlitz 1891a:703 (faunal list), 1891b:789 (faunal list); Acloque 1896:456 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:602 (catalog); Weise 1890:486 (noted); Champion 1907:170 (faunal list); Markovich 1909:16 (faunal list); Gestro 1916:77 (noted); Kempers 1922:35 (noted); Grandi 1935:25 (larva); Liu 1936:255 (China species); Gressitt 1950:100 (China species); Gridelli 1950:251 (distribution); Uhmann 1954m:38 (pupa), 1954o:175 (faunal list), 1958a:216 (faunal list), 1958e:269 (catalog), 1964a:469 (catalog); Monrós & Bechyné 1956:1136 (nomenclature); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:915 (China species); Lopatin 1963:371 (faunal list); Gruev 1968:64 (faunal list), 1979:140 (faunal list), 1980b:88 (faunal list), 1986:342 (faunal list), 1988:167 (faunal list), 1990b:350 (faunal list), 1992:404 (faunal list), 1998:48 (faunal list), 2004:91 (faunal list), 2006:73 (faunal list); Würmli 1976d:317 (revision); Daccordi 1977:90 (faunal list); Daccordi & Petitpierre 1977:234 (faunal list); Petitpierre 1980:15 (faunal list), 1981:15 (faunal list), 2009:62 (faunal list); Lopatin 1981:376 (faunal list), 1999:168 (faunal list); Samedov & Mirzoeva 1982:799 (faunal list); L. Medvedev 1985:377 (distribution), 1986:46 (faunal list); Alefre & Petitpierre 1984:329 (genetics); Gruev & Tomov 1986:342 (faunal list); Tomov & Gruev 1987:264 (faunal list); Baccetti & Daccordi 1988:369 (sperm); Petitpierre et al. 1988:179 (chromosomes); Kismali 1989:86 (faunal list), 1999:109 (museum list); Schmitt 1989:532 (tarsal setae), 1991:266 (stridulation); Burakowski et al. 1991:161 (faunal list); Bounechada 1994:246 (faunal list); Schmitt 1994:324 (stridulation); Steinhausen 1994:306 (larvae), 2002:23 (pupa); Biondi et al. 1995:645 (faunal list); Hansen 1996:185 (faunal list); Tomov et al. 1996:347 (faunal list); Vig 1996:155 (faunal list), 2002:159 (faunal list), 2003:99 (faunal list); Biondi & Laurenzi 1997:502 (faunal list); Hansen et al. 1997:87 (faunal list); Bordy 2000:59 (France species); Warchalowski 2000:115 (Poland species), 2003:556 (Europe species); Mohamedsaid 2000b:375 (distribution); Beier 2001:120 (faunal list); Bieńkowski 2003:127 (eastern Europe species); Gök & Çilbiroğlu 2003:71 (faunal list); Doguet & Bergeal 2006:104 (distribution); Baselga & Novoa 2000b:175 (faunal list), 2002:67 (faunal list), 2006:226 (Spain species); Lopatin et al. 2003:108 (faunal list); Vives 2000:17 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:65 (host plants); Maican 2005:129 (faunal list); Wąsowska 2006:567 (faunal list); Chaboo 2007:98 (noted); D’Aessandro 2008:394 (faunal list); Gruev & Tomov 2007:297 (faunal list); Schmidt & Melber 2008:226 (faunal list); Aslan et al. 2009:18 (faunal list); Şen & Gök 2009:222 (faunal list); Julio et al. 2010:30 (noted); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog); Gus’kova 2010:219 (faunal list); Sekerka 2010:16 (faunal list); Cantot 2011:128 (faunal list); Chapelin-Viscardi & Maillet-Mezeray 2011:196 (faunal list); D’Alessandro & Biondi 2011:562 (faunal list); Özdikmen 2011:613 (faunal list); Steinhausen 2011:120 (faunal list); Uhlig et al. 2011:169 (faunal list); Alziar & Lemaire 2012:62, 78, 82, 91 (faunal list); Erik et al. 2013:2270 (faunal list); Petitpierre &


Daccordi 2013:73 (faunal list); Özdikmen & Kaya 2014:60 (distribution); Petitpierre & Lópex-Perez 2015:233 (faunal list).

Hispa atra Fabricius. Dejean 1837:390 (collection list). Hispa (Hispella) atra L. Chapuis 1875:335, 1877:51 (noted). Hispella atra (L.). Bedel 1889-1901:329 (faunal list); Weise 1893:1065 (catalog), 1897:146

(noted), 1911a:61 (catalog), 1911b:93 (catalog); Heyden et al. 1906:583 (catalog); Nedelkov 1909:23 (faunal list); Reitter 1912:213 (faunal list), 1927:34 (Palearctic species); Kuhnt 1913:890 (faunal list); Apfelbeck 1914:448 (faunal list); Maulik 1915:374 (museum list), 1916:575 (museum list), 1919:131 (noted), 1937:152 (host plant), 1939:131 (distribution); Schauffuss 1916:1011 (faunal list); Gestro 1919:344 (host plant); Dudlich 1920:152 (stridulation); Krancher & Uhmann 1924:163 (faunal list); Hering 1926:474 (noted), 1935-1937:245, 385 (host plant); Hansen 1927:262 (faunal list); Henriksen 1927:367 (immatures); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Sick 1933:166 (faunal list); Porta 1934:372 (Italy species); Portevin 1934:318 (France species); Grandi 1935:19 (larva), 1951:841 (noted); Liu 1936:255 (distribution); Venturi 1936:148 (host plants); Wu 1937:913 (faunal list); Deville 1938:370 (faunal list); Schatzmayr 1943:136 (faunal list); Uhmann 1943d:203 (sculpture), 1945-1948:180 (sculpture), 1948b:74 (noted), 1949a:6 (key); Risbec 1950a:378 (noted); Novak 1952:329 (faunal list), 1970:43 (faunal list); Cleu 1953:37 (faunal list); Müller 1953:595 (Italy species); Cobos 1954:154 (faunal list); L. Medvedev 1958:295 (Russian species), 1968:79 (larva); Angelov 1960:29 (faunal list); Shapiro & Tschernyshenko 1963:315 (faunal list); Angelov et al. 1965:148 (faunal list); Mohr 1966:376 (faunal list), 1969:393 (faunal list); Tomov & Gruev 1969:175 (faunal list), 1975:150 (faunal list); Schmitt et al. 1982:31 (eyes); Koch 1992:134 (ecology); Ilie 2000:38 (faunal list); Mirzoeva 2001:50 (faunal list).

Hispella astra (Linnaeus). Benato 1991:359 (distribution). Hispa capensis atra Linnaeus. Thunberg 1784:66 (noted). Gonophora atra (Linnaeus). Hua 2002:292 (faunal list). Hispa algira Motschulsky 1861:238 (type: Algir., depository unknown). Motschulsky 1869:80

(types); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (synonymy); Weise 1897:146 (synonymy), 1901:239 (noted), 1911b:61 (synonymy).

Hispa aptera Motschulsky 1861:238 (type: Siberia, depository unknown). Stierlin 1861:226 (faunal list); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (synonymy); Weise 1883:1065 (synonymy).

Hispa minuta Balbi 1892:195 (type: Italy, depository unknown). Donckier 1899:602 (nomenclature); Gestro 1901b:437 (noted); Weise 1901:239 (synonymy).

Hispa balbii Donckier 1899:602 (replacement name). Weise 1902:239 (synonymy) Hispa cariosa Reiche & Sauley 1858:54 (type: Israel, near Jerusalem, depository unknown).

Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:51 (noted); Weise 1897:146 (faunal list), 1901:239 (synonymy); Donckier 1899:603 (catalog); Heyden 1906:583 (synonymy).

Hispella atra cariosa (Reiche & Sauley). Weise 1897:146 (noted); Heyden et al. 1906:583 (catalog); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog). Distribution: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, China (Hopei, Shansi), Croatia, Czech


Republic, Dalmatia, Egypt, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Ukraine, Yugoslavia. Food plants: Dactylis sp., Poa sp., Elytrigia sp., Calamagrostis sp. (Biondi et al. 1995); Apropyrum repans Beauv. (Venturi 1936); Agrostis sp., Elymus repens (L.) Gould, Helictotrichon sp., Poa spp., Poa compressa L., Triticum sp. (Poaceae) (Bordy 2000) (Poaceae).

Hispa brachycera (Gestro 1897b) Hispella brachycera Gestro 1897b:123 (type: Chota Nagpore, MCSN, MNHN). Donckier 1899:

603 (catalog); Weise 1911a:61 (catalog), 1911b:93 (catalog); Maulik 1915:375 (key), 1919:157 (India species), 1937:152 (host plant), 1939:144 (distribution); Uhmann 1930h:133 (museum list); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:95 (Pakistan species); Pajni et al. 1987:34 (internal reproductive system).

Hispa brachycera (Gestro). Uhmann 1958e:271 (catalog); Würmli 1976d:318 (revision); Takizawa 1985a:2 (faunal list); Basu 1999:175 (distribution); Borowiec & Świętojańska 2007:284 (distribution); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog).

Hispa (Dicladispa) brachycera (Gestro). Anand 1997:8 (morphology). Dactylispa brachyvera (Gestro) (sic). Santiago-Blay 2004:60 (lapsus calami, host plants).

Distribution: India (Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Orissa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu), Pakistan. Food plants: Lantana camara L. (Verbenaceae), grasses (Poaceae) (Maulik 1919).

Hispa fulvispinosa L. Medvedev 1992 Hispa fulvispinosa L. Medvedev 1992:387 (type: India, Radjastan, Eklingji, NHMB). Distribution: India. Food plant: Unknown.

Hispa ramosa Gyllenhal 1817 Hispa ramosa Gyllenhal 1817:6 (type: India, UZIU, NHRS). Schönherr 1817:4 (catalog); Berge

1844:87 (noted); Guérin-Méneville 1841:9 (comparative note); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Donckier 1899:610 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:271 (catalog); Würmli 1976d:320 (revision); L. Medvedev 1985:377 (faunal list), 1986:46 (faunal list); Takizawa 1985a:2 (faunal list); Gruev 1988:167 (faunal list); Basu 1999:176 (distribution); Kimoto 1999:119 (southeast Asia species), 2001:70 (faunal list), 2005:104 (faunal list); Hua 2002:292 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:65 (host plants); Borowiec & Świętojańska 2007:286 (distribution); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:491 (faunal list).

Hispa ramosa Schönherr. Dejean 1837:390 (collection list). Hispella ramosa (Gyllenhal). Gestro 1897b:124 (noted); Weise 1897:146 (noted), 1905b:117

(faunal list), 1911a:62 (catalog), 1911b:93 (catalog); Fletcher 1914b:314 (biology); Maulik 1915:376 (museum list), 1919:160 (India species), 1937:153 (host plant), 1939:144 (distribution).


Hispa (Dicladispa) ramosa (Gyllenhal). Anand 1997:8 (morphology). Hispa sp. Gyllenhal 1813:450 (noted), 1817:6 (synonymy). Hispella andrewesi Weise 1897:126 (type: India, Belgaum, BMNH). Weise 1905b:117 (faunal

list), 1911a:61 (catalog), 1911b:93 (catalog); Maulik 1915:376 (museum list), 1919:161 (India species), 1939:144 (distribution); Pic 1924c:28 (comparative note); Spaeth 1933:274 (distribution); Uhmann 1939a:9 (faunal list), 1958e:269 (catalog); Kalshoven 1957:11 (host plant); Würmli 1976d:320 (synonymy); Pajni et al. 1987:34 (internal reproductive system).

Hispa andrewesi (Weise). Donckier 1899:602 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:916 (China species); Uhmann 1958e:269 (catalog), 1963b:150 (museum list); Chen et al. 1962:121 (faunal list); Chûjô 1964:312 (faunal list); Kimoto 1972:48 (faunal list); Würmli 1976:320 (synonymy); Basu 1986:154 (faunal list), 1999:176 (distribution); Chen et al. 1986:359 (China species); L. Medvedev 1990:45 (faunal list), 1992:387 (noted), 2000b:24 (faunal list); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:346 (faunal list); Hua 2002:292 (faunal list); T’an 2002:460 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:65 (host plants); Borowiec & Świętojańska 2007:284 (distribution); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:491 (faunal list).

Hispa (Dicladispa) andrewesi (Weise). Anand 1997:8 (morphology). Hispella donckieri Pic 1924c:28 (type: Vietnam, Tonkin, MNHN). Spaeth 1933:274

(synonymy); Gressitt 1939a:170 (distribution), 1939b:200 (distribution), 1950:101 (China species); Maulik 1939:144 (distribution).

Hispa donckieri (Pic). Gressitt 1950:101 (China species); Chaboo 2007:103 (noted). Hispella sp. Gressitt 1938:101 (noted). Hispa ceylonica Motschulsky 1861:238 (type: Ceylon, ZMUM). Motschulsky 1869:80 (types);

Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Donckier 1899:603 (catalog); Gestro 1902a:55 (faunal list); Maulik 1919:162 (synonymy); L. Medvedev 2006:417 (types).

Hispa (Hispella) ceylonica Motschulsky. Chapuis 1877:51 (noted). Hispella ceylonica (Motschulsky). Gestro 1897b:81 (noted); Weise 1897:127 (noted), 1911a:61

(catalog), 1911b:93 (catalog). Hispa sp. Gressitt 1938:325 (Hainan species), 1939a:170 (identification). Hispa echinata Chen & Sun 1964:115 (type: China, Yunnan, Shishong-Baanna, IZAS). Gressitt

& Kimoto 1965:805 (noted); Würmli 1976d:320 (synonymy); Yang & Sun 1991:60 (types); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog).

Hispa andrewsei singhalensis Maulik 1919:61 (type: Ceylon, Kandy; Bogawantalawa; Dikoya, BMNH).

Distribution: Afghanistan, China (Anhwei, Hainan, Kwangsi, Kwangtung, Sikang, Yunnan), India (Bihar, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal), Indonesia (Java), Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam.

Food plants: Grasses (Fletcher 1914b); Cholum sp., Sorghum sp. (Maulik 1919); narrowleafed grass (Gressitt 1950); Imperata cylindrica major (Nees) C. E. Hubb., Centotheca sp. (Hua 2002) (Poaceae).


Hispa stygia Chapuis 1877 Hispa (Hispella) stygia Chapuis 1877:51 (type: India, ISNB?). Gestro 1897b:92 (noted); Weise

1911a:62 (catalog), 1911b:93 (catalog). Hispella stygia Chapuis. Weise 1897:126 (faunal list); Maulik 1915:375 (museum list), 1919:159

(India species), 1937:153 (host plant), 1939:144 (distribution); Thobbi 1959:52 (biology); Anand 1997:10 (morphology).

Hispa stygia Chapuis. Donckier 1899:611 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:272 (catalog); Grist & Lever 1969:224 (biology); Nair 1975:19 (pest species); Würmli 1976d:321 (revision); Pathak & Pawar 1983:86 (noted); Anand 1989:6 (India species); Booth et al. 1990:155 (noted); Barrion & Litsinger 1994:176 (key); Basu 1999:175 (distribution); Santiago- Blay 2004:65 (host plants); Borowiec & Świętojańska 2007:286 (distribution). Distribution: India (Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal). Food plants: Sorghum sp. (Maulik 1919); Oryza sativa L., Panicum maximum Jacq Polytoca barbata (Roxb.) Stapf., Dichanthium annulatum (Forssk.) Stapf, D. caricosum A. Camus, Panicum antidotale Retz., Ischaemum pilosum Trimen, Themeda spp., Coix lachrma L. (Thobbi 1959) (Poaceae).

Hispa tarsata Świętojańska 2001 Hispa tarsata Świętojańska 2001:479 (type: Iran, 42 km north Masiri, NMPC). Borowiec &

Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog). Distribution: Iran. Food plant: Unknown.

Hispa waiensis Borowiec & Świętojańska 2007 Hispa waiensis Borowiec & Świętojańska 2007:289 (type: India, Maharashtra, Satara, UWCP). Distribution: India (Maharashtra). Food plant: Unknown.

Incerte Sedis

Hispa nigrina Dohrn. Tennent 1868:452 (faunal list). Hispa walkeri Baly. Tennent 1868:452 (faunal list).

Hispellinus Weise 1897 Hispellinus Weise 1897:144. Type species: Hispa multispinosus Germar 1848, designated by

Weise 1905f. Weise 1911a:60 (catalog), 1911b:91 (description); Strand 1935:298 (nomenclature); Maulik 1939:147 (noted); Uhmann 1940g:122 (claws), 1943d:202 (sculpture), 1954e:96 (noted), 1954f:26 (faunal list), 1958e:261 (catalog), 1961a:60 (faunal list), 1964a:467 (catalog); Gressitt 1950:95 (China species), 1957b:312 (South Pacific species), 1959a:72 (host plants), 1960a:89 (New Guinea species), 1960b:705 (New Guinea species), 1961:83 (host plants), 1963b:6 (zoogeography), 1982:711 (ecology); Chûjô & Kimoto 1961:195 (Japan species); Chen et al. 1962:121 (faunal list); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:913 (China species); Kimoto 1966:639 (Japan species),


1987:29 (Japan species), 1999:115 (southeast Asia species); Würmli 1975a:67 (genera); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); Anand 1984:11 (noted); An et al. 1985:2 (Korea species); Chen et al. 1986:366 (China species); Jolivet 1989b:312 (host plants); T’an 1993:383 (faunal list); Kimoto & Takizawa 1994:343 (Japan species); Jolivet & Hawkeswood 1995:156 (host plants); Kimoto & Chu 1996:129 (faunal list); Anand 1997:5 (morphology); Staines 1997b:417 (Uhmann species list); Jäch 1998:37 (noted); Basu 1999:174 (distribution); Mohamedsaid 2004:184 (Malaysian species); Santiago-Blay 2004:66 (host plants); Chaboo 2007:47 (noted); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog).

Monochirus Chapuis 1875:330 (not Rafinesque). Chapuis 1876:xxv (faunal list), 1877:47 (noted); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3616 (catalog); Weise 1893:1061 (key), 1897:144 (key), 1905f:317 (synonymy); Gestro 1897b:73 (noted) 1917:426 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:598 (catalog); Maulik 1915:373 (museum list), 1919:151 (India species); Schultze 1916:101 (faunal list); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Chûjô 1933:319 (Taiwan species); Strand 1935:298 (synonymy); Liu 1936:252 (China species); Wu 1937:913 (faunal list); Gressitt 1939a:162 (distribution), 1939b:200 (distribution); Staines 1997b:417 (Uhmann species list); Staines & Staines 1999:526 (Baly species list); Chaboo 2007:139 (noted).

Hispellinus albertisii (Gestro 1897b) Monochirus albertisii Gestro 1897b:122 (type: New Guinea, Fiume Fly, MCSN). Gestro

1897d:454 (distribution), 1907:83 (museum list); Donckier 1899:598 (catalog); Weise 1913d:442 (faunal list).

Hispellinus albertisii (Gestro). Weise 1911a:60 (catalog), 1911b:91 (catalog); Uhmann 1954e:102 (noted), 1958e:261 (catalog), 1964a:467 (catalog); Gressitt 1957b:313 (South Pacific species), 1960a:90 (New Guinea species), 1960b:706 (New Guinea species); Kalshoven 1957:11 (host plant); Kimoto et al. 1984:51 (host plant); Santiago-Blay 2004:66 (host plants). Distribution: New Guinea. Food plants: Grasses (Kalshoven 1957); Saccharum sp. (Gressitt 1960); Zea mays L. (Kimoto et al. 1984) (Poaceae).

Hispellinus australica (Motschulsky 1861) Hispa australica Motschulsky 1861:239 (type: New Guinea, New Hollandia, ZMUM).

Motschulsky 1869:80 (types); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); L. Medvedev 2006:417 (types).

Monochirus australica (Motschulsky). Donckier 1899:598 (catalog). Monochirus australicus (Motschulsky). Chapuis 1877:47 (noted). Hispellinus australica (Motschulsky). Weise 1897:145 (transfer); Uhmann 1954e:101 (noted),

1958e:261 (catalog). Phidodonta australica (Motschulsky). Weise 1911a:62 (catalog), 1911b:94 (catalog), 1911c:78

(transfer); Mjöberg 1917:18 (noted). Distribution: Australia (Victoria), New Guinea. Food plant: Unknown.


Hispellinus callicanthus (Bates 1866) Hispa perotetii Motschulsky 1861:238 (not Guérin-Méneville 1840) (type: India, Pondicherry,

depository unknown). Weise 1897:144 (synonymy). Hispa callicantha Bates 1866:354 (type: Formosa, BMNH). Shiraki 1937:2153 (noted). Monochirus callicanthus (Bates). Chapuis 1876:xxv (faunal list), 1877:48 (noted); Gemminger

& Harold 1876:3616 (catalog); Gestro 1885:173 (faunal list), 1897b:74 (distribution), 1917:426 (faunal list), 1922:103 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:598 (catalog); Weise 1913:238 (faunal list); Schultze 1916:101 (faunal list); Maulik 1919:151 (India species), 1937:152 (host plants); Uhmann 1930-1932:53 (museum list); Matsumura 1931:243 (faunal list); Chûjô 1933:320 (Taiwan species); Gressitt 1938:325 (faunal list), 1939a:169 (distribution), 1939b:200 (distribution); Quicke & Walker 1989:19 (parasites).

Hispellinus callicanthus (Bates). Weise 1897:145 (transfer), 1911a:60 (catalog); 1911b:91 (catalog); Uichanco 1929:572 (host plant); Uhmann 1934c:6 (distribution), 1943d:206 (sculpture), 1954e:102 (noted), 1958e:261 (catalog), 1964a:468 (catalog), 1964(1965):248 (faunal list); Gressitt 1950:95 (China species); Kalshoven 1957:11 (host plant); Chûjô 1963:29 (faunal list); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:913 (China species); Baltazar 1968:181 (host plant); Kimoto 1970:177 (faunal list), 1986:62 (faunal list), 1987:194 (faunal list), 1991:25 (faunal list), 1999:115 (southeast Asia species); Takizawa 1978:602 (host plant); Chen et al. 1986:368 (China species); Kimoto & Chu 1996:129 (faunal list); Basu 1999:174 (distribution); Mohamedsaid 2004:184 (Malaysian species); Santiago-Blay 2004:66 (host plants); Umemura et al. 2005:35 (faunal list); Chaboo 2007:46 (noted); Lee & Cheng 2007:160 (Taiwan species); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog).

Hispellinus callicanthus callicanthus (Bates). Hua 2002:292 (faunal list). Monochirus moestus Baly 1888a:662 (type: Burma, Bhamo, MCSN, DEI). Baly 1889:490

(distribution); Gestro 1890:245 (distribution), 1897b:73 (distribution), 1897e:399 (faunal list), 1898d:217 (distribution), 1902:55 (distribution), 1907:77 (distribution), 1919:343 (host plant), 1917:426 (faunal list), 1922:103 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:598 (catalog); Schultze 1915:104 (faunal list), 1916:101 (faunal list); Maulik 1919:152 (India species); Uhmann 1929b:1 (faunal list), 1930-1932:53 (museum list), 1931e:3 (faunal list), 1933a:68 (faunal list); Baltazar 1968:221 (faunal list); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:382 (types); Staines & Staines 1999:526 (Baly species list); Iqbal-Siddiqi et al. 2006:41 (antenna); Lit & Caasi-Lit 2009:107 (host plant).

Hispellinus moestus (Baly). Weise 1897:126 (transfer), 1911a:60 (catalog), 1911b:91 (catalog), 1913:238 (distribution), 1924:83 (distribution); Gestro 1902a:55 (faunal list), 1909(1910):147 (faunal list); Uhmann 1938f:227 (distribution), 1939c:42 (noted), 1940h:126 (noted), 1943d:207 (sculpture), 1954e:103 (noted), 1954n:515 (noted), 1958e:263 (catalog), 1964a:468 (catalog), 1964(1965):249 (faunal list); Gressitt 1950:98 (China species), 1953b:125 (distribution); Kalshoven 1957:11 (host plant); Grist & Lever 1969:226 (noted); Kimoto 1972:48 (faunal list); Maddison 1993:383 (host plant); Barrion & Litsinger 1994:176 (key); Cox 1996a:172 (pupa); Anand 1997:6 (morphology); Reid 1998:302 (faunal list); Basu 1999:174 (distribution); Mohamedsaid 2000a:358 (faunal list), 2000b:375 (distribution); Hua 2002:293 (faunal list); SantiagoBlay 2004:66 (host plants).


Hispellinus callicanthus moestus (Baly). Chen et al. 1962:121 (faunal list); Chen et al. 1986:368 (China species); T’an 1993:383 (faunal list); L. Medvedev 2000a:181 (distribution); Hua 2002:293 (faunal list); T’an 2002:460 (faunal list).

Monochirus formosanus Uhmann 1927d:111 (type: Formosa, Hokuto, DEI). Chûjô 1933:321 (Taiwan species); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:373 (types); Staines 1997b:417 (Uhmann species list).

Hispellinus formosanus (Uhmann). Uhmann 1940h:127 (noted), 1943d:206 (sculpture), 1954e:100 (distribution), 1958e:262 (catalog), 1960c:24 (faunal list), 1964a:468 (catalog), 1964(1965):257 (faunal list); Gressitt 1950:97 (China species); Gressitt 1957b:312 (South Pacific species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:913 (China species); Chûjô 1965:103 (faunal list); Kimoto & Chu 1996:129 (synonymy); Hua 2002:293 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog).

Distribution: China (Anhwei, Fukien, Hainan Island, Kuangsi, Kwangsi, Kwangtung, Kweichow, Yunnan), India (West Bengal), Indonesia (Borneo, Celebes, Java, Nias, Sumatra), Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines (Luzon, Mindanao, Negros, Panay), Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.

Food plants: Bambusa blumeana Schultes (Schultze 1915); Saccharum officinarum L. (Corbett 1924); Oryza sativa L., Saccharum sp. (Uichanco 1929); Saccharum sinense Roxb., Zizania caduciflora (Turcz) Hand.-Mazz., Centotheca sp., Imperata cylindrica major (Nees) C. E. Hubb. (Hua 2002); Miscanthus sp. (Takizawa 1978); Miscanthus floridulus (Labill.) Warb. ex. Schum. & Lanterb. (Lee & Cheng 2007) (Poaceae).

Hispellinus chinensis Gressitt 1950 Monochirus callicanthus Gressitt 1939a:169 (not Bates) (type: China, Kwangtung, Fong-

tongping, ICRI). Hispellinus chinensis Gressitt 1950:96 (replacement name). Uhmann 1954e:96 (noted),

1958e:262 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:913 (China species); Takizawa 1980:12; An et al. 1985:2 (Korea species); T’an & Yu 1993:354 (faunal list); Hua 2002:293 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog).

Distribution: China (Hunan, Kwangtung, Szechuan), South Korea. Food plant: Unknown. Hispellinus coarctatus (Chapuis 1877) Monochirus coarctatus Chapuis 1877:48 (type: Australia, Sydney, ISNB). Donckier 1899:598

(catalog). Hispellinus coarctatus (Chapuis). Weise 1911a:60 (catalog), 1911b:91 (catalog); Mjöberg

1917:18 (noted); Uhmann 1954e:96 (noted), 1957f:306 (museum list), 1958e:262 (catalog); Gressitt 1960b:707 (New Guinea species); Santiago-Blay 2004:66 (host plants).

Distribution: Australia (New South Wales), New Guinea. Food plant: Grasses (Poaceae) (Gressitt 1960).


Hispellinus congoanus (Uhmann 1936d) Monochirus congoanus Uhmann 1936d:409 (type: Congo, Haut-Uele, MRAC). Gaedike &

Döbler 1971:368 (types); Staines 1997b:417 (Uhmann species list). Hispellinus congoanus (Uhmann). Uhmann 1943d:206 (sculpture), 1954f:26 (faunal list),

1958e:262 (catalog), 1958f:489 (distribution), 1961a:60 (noted), 1964a:468 (catalog). Monochirus capensis Maulik. Uhmann 1931g:160 (misidentification). Distribution: Congo, Tanzania. Food plant: Unknown.

Hispellinus csikii (Gestro 1907) Monochirus csikii Gestro 1907:80 (type: New Guinea, Stephansort, HNHM). Hispellinus csikii (Gestro). Weise 1911a:60 (catalog), 1911b:91 (catalog); Uhmann 1954e:102

(noted), 1958e:262 (catalog), 1964a:468 (catalog); Gressitt 1957b:313 (South Pacific species), 1960a:89 (New Guinea species), 1960b:705 (New Guinea species); SantiagoBlay 2004:66 (host plants).

Distribution: New Guinea. Food plants: Imperata sp., Saccharum spontaneum L., Themeda sp. (Poaceae) (Gressitt 1957b).

Hispellinus fimbriatus (Chapuis 1877) Monochirus fimbriatus Chapuis 1877:47 (type: Australia, Tasmania, ISNB). Donckier 1899:598

(catalog). Hispellinus fimbriatus (Chapuis). Weise 1911a:60 (catalog), 1911b:91 (catalog); Uhmann

1954e:101 (noted), 1958e:262 (catalog), 1963b:148 (museum list). Distribution: Australia (New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria). Food plant: Unknown.

Hispellinus germari (Chapuis 1877) Monochirus germari Chapuis 1877:48 (type: Australia, Carpentaria, ISNB). Donckier 1899:598

(catalog); Uhmann 1934c:5 (noted). Hispellinus germari (Chapuis). Weise 1911a:60 (catalog), 1911b:91 (catalog); Mjöberg 1917:18

(noted); Uhmann 1950b:336 (noted), 1954e:102 (noted), 1958e:262 (catalog), 1963b:148 (museum list); Gressitt 1960b:706 (New Guinea species).

Distribution: Australia (New South Wales, Queensland, West Australia), New Guinea. Food plant: Grasses (Poaceae) (Gressitt 1960).

Hispellinus minor (Maulik 1919) Monochirus minor Maulik 1919:155 (type: Ceylon, Trincomali; Sumatra, Nahat, MCSN).

Uhmann 1934c:2 (distribution). Hispellinus minor (Maulik). Uhmann 1954e:96 (noted), 1958e:262 (catalog); Vazirani 1972:

147 (faunal list); Anand 1997:6 (morphology); Basu 1999:175 (distribution). Distribution: India (Arunachal Pradesh), Indonesia (Sumatra), Sri Lanka.



Hispellinus moerens (Baly 1874) Hispa moerens Baly 1874:215 (type: northern China, BMNH). Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618

(catalog); Gorham 1885:286 (faunal list); Schönfeldt 1887:156 (Japan species); Donckier 1899:607 (catalog); Staines & Staines 1999:526 (Baly species list).

Monochirus moerens (Baly). Weise 1897:145 (noted), 1911a:60 (catalog), 1911b:91 (catalog); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Chûjô 1933:319 (Taiwan species); Liu 1936:253 (China species); Wu 1937:913 (faunal list); Gressitt 1939c:136 (distribution).

Hispellinus moerens (Baly). Uhmann 1943d:206 (sculpture), 1949a:5 (key), 1954e:99 (redescription), 1958e:263 (catalog), 1964a:468 (catalog); Gressitt 1950:97 (China species); L. Medvedev 1957:294 (Russian species); Chûjô & Kimoto 1961:195 (Japan species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:913 (China species); Nakane et al. 1963:347 (faunal list); Kimoto 1964:377 (type), 1966:639 (Japan species), 1987:29 (Japanese species); 1989:483 (faunal list); An et al. 1985:2 (Korea species); Hua 2002:293 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:66 (host plants); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog). Distribution: China (Chekiang, Kiangsu), Korea, Japan, Russia (Siberia), Taiwan.

Food plants: Miscanthus sp. (Chûjô & Kimoto 1961); Hemarthria sp. (Hua 2002) (Poaceae).

Hispellinus multispinosus (Germar 1848) Hispa multispinosus Germar 1848:246 (type: Australia, ZMHB?). Monochirus multispinosus (Germar). Chapuis 1875:129 (noted), 1875b:44, plate 129, fig. 4

(illustration), 1877:48 (noted); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3616 (catalog); Gestro 1885:173 (distribution), 1890:245 (distribution), 1892:1018 (distribution), 1895:706 (distribution), 1897d:453 (distribution), 1907:83 (museum list); Donckier 1899:598 (catalog); Weise 1905f:317 (noted), 1911a:60 (catalog), 1911b:91 (catalog); Mjöberg 1917:18 (noted); Uhmann 1932b:14 (noted); Buzacott 1953:28 (host plant).

Hispellinus multispinosus (Germar). Weise 1897:145 (transfer); Uhmann 1943d:207 (sculpture), 1954e:101 (noted), 1958e:263 (catalog), 1964a:468 (catalog); Gressitt 1957b:313 (South Pacific species), 1960a:90 (New Guinea species), 1960b:706 (New Guinea species); Hawkeswood 1987:105 (noted), 2003:186 (host plants); Lawrence & Britton 1994:149 (illustration); Santiago-Blay 2004:66 (host plants).

Distribution: Australia (New South Wales, Queensland), Myanmar, New Guinea. Food plants: Grasses (Froggatt 1907, Tillyard 1926, Hawkeswood 1987, 1988); Saccharum officinarum L. (Buzacott 1953); Imperata sp., Saccharum spontaneum L., Themeda sp. (Gressitt 1960) (Poaceae).

Hispellinus promontorii (Péringuey 1898) Hispella promontorii Péringuey 1898:118 (type: South Africa, Cape Colony, Cape Town,

Stellenbosch, SAMC). Hispa promontorii Péringuey. Donckier 1899:610 (catalog). Pseudhispella promontorii (Péringuey). Weise 1901:239 (transfer), 1911a:61 (catalog), 1911b:92

(catalog). Pseudispella promontorii (Péringuey). Gestro 1905b:556 (catalog).


Monochirus promontorii (Péringuey). Uhmann 1936d:408 (transfer). Hispellinus promontorii (Péringuey). Uhmann 1937g:373 (transfer), 1943d:205 (sculpture),

1954h:186 (faunal list), 1956f:339 (catalog), 1958e:263 (catalog); Gomes Alves 1951:183 (distribution).

Monochirus capensis Maulik 1919:408 (type: South Africa, Cape of Good Hope, BMNH). Maulik 1922:569 (redescription); Uhmann 1936:408 (synonymy).

Monochirus capensis Maulik. Uhmann 1931:160 (misidentification), 1936d:408 (correction). Distribution: Congo, Guinea, Mozambique, South Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Hispellinus sthulacundus (Maulik 1915) Monochirus sthulacundus Maulik 1915:373 (type: India, Bengal, Berhampur, NZSI?). Maulik

1919:154 (India species); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:96 (Bangladesh species). Hispellinus sthulacundus (Maulik). Uhmann 1958e:265 (catalog); Anand 1997:6 (morphology);

Basu 1999:174 (distribution). Distribution: Bangladesh, India (West Bengal). Food plant: Unknown. Hispellinus tuberiger Uhmann 1949f Hispellinus tuberiger Uhmann 1949f:44 (type: East Africa, Nandi-Reservat, ZSMC). Uhmann

1954f:28 (faunal list), 1958e:263 (catalog), 1961a:63 (noted), 1963e:252 (museum list), 1964a:468 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:392 (types); Staines 1997b:417 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: East Africa, Congo. Food plant: Unknown.

Jambhala Würmli 1975b Jambhala Würmli 1975b:377. Type species: Jambhala nekula Würmli 1975b, by monotypy.

Würmli 1975a:63 (genera); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); Kimoto 2005:105 (faunal list); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 2005:333 (Nepal species); Chaboo 2007:179 (noted); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog).

Jambhala nekula Würmli 1975b Jambhala nekula Würmli 1975b:377 (type: Bhutan, Dorju-la, NHMB). Takizawa 1989:327

(faunal list); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:346 (faunal list), 2005:333 (Nepal species); Kimoto 2005:105 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog).

Jambhala necula Würmli. Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:491 (lapsus, faunal list). Distribution: Bhutan, Nepal. Food plant: Unknown.


Monohispa Weise 1897 Dactylispa (Monohispa) Weise 1897:147. Type species: Hispa singularis Gestro, by monotypy.

Weise 1911a:63 (synonymy), 1911b:95 (catalog). Monohispa Weise. Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list), 1986:607 (China species); Borowiec &

Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog). Monohispa singularis (Gestro 1888b) Hispa singularis Gestro 1888b:179 (type: Burma, Bhamo, MCSN). Baly 1888a:663 (faunal list);

Gestro 1890:255 (distribution); Donckier 1899:611 (catalog). Dactylispa (Monohispa) singularis (Gestro). Weise 1897:147 (noted). Dactylispa singularis (Gestro). Weise 1911a:69 (catalog), 1911b:95 (catalog); Maulik 1919:171

(India species); Uhmann 1938d:428 (distribution), 1958e:313 (catalog); Kimoto 1999:144 (southeast Asia species).

Distribution: Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam. Food plant: Unknown.

Monohispa tuberculata (Gressitt 1950) Dactylispa tuberculata Gressitt 1950:132 (type: China, Kwangtung, Kau-lin San, ICRI). Uhmann

1958e:319 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:935 (China species); Staines & Staines 1997:22 (types).

Monohispa tuberculata (Gressitt). Chen et al. 1961:458 (faunal list), 1986:607 (China species); Hua 2002:293 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog). Distribution: China (Fukien, Guangdong, Guangxi, Kwangtung, Yunnan). Food plant: Mallotus sp. (Euphorbiaceae) (Hua 2002)

Phidodontina Uhmann 1938d Phidodontina Uhmann 1938d:442. Type species: Phidodontina gedyei Uhmann 1938d, by

monotypy. Maulik 1939:147 (noted); Uhmann 1940e:143 (type species), 1940g:122 (claws), 1942a:11 (faunal list), 1961a:71 (faunal list); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:504 (types); Würmli 1975a:70 (genera); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list).

Phidodontina gedyei Uhmann 1938d Phidodontina gedyei Uhmann 1938d:423 (type: Kenya, Nairbi, BMNH). Uhmann 1940e:143

(type species), 1943d:204 (sculpture), 1949b:682 (type), 1958e:267 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:374 (types); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list).


Philodonta Weise 1904a Philodonta Weise 1904a:404. Type species: Philodonta modesta Weise 1904a, by monotypy.

Weise 1911a:62 (catalog), 1911b:94 (redescription), 1926:226 (faunal list); Maulik


1919:162 (India species); Uhmann 1942a:11 (faunal list), 1954h:184 (key), 1958e:275 (catalog), 1964a:469 (catalog); Würmli 1975a:70 (genera); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); Anand 1984:11 (noted), 1989:8 (India species); Jolivet 1989b:312 (host plants); Anand 1997:5 (morphology); Santiago-Blay 2004:73 (host plants); Staines 2011:1 (noted).

Phidodonta Weise (sic). Jolivet & Hawkeswood 1995:156 (lapsus calami). Pleruispella Uhmann 1931g:159. Type species: Pleurispella weisei Uhmann, by monotypy.

Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list).

Philodonta chirinda Maulik 1919 Philodonta chirinda Maulik 1919:410 (type: S. E. Mashonaland, Mt. Chirinda, BMNH). Maulik

1922:570 (redescription); Uhmann 1937g:374 (noted), 1956f:340 (catalog), 1958e:275 (catalog), 1964d:732 (museum list); Staines 2011:1 (noted).

Distribution: Congo, Mozambique, Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown. Philodonta modesta Weise 1904a Philodonta modesta Weise 1904a:404 (type: India, Pusa, Bengal, BMNH, ZMHB).

MaxwellLefroy & Howlett 1909:365 (noted); Weise 1911a:62 (catalog), 1911b:94 (catalog); Fletcher 1914a:206 (host plant), 1914b:315 (biology); Gestro 1919:343 (host plant); Maulik 1919:163 (India species), 1937:153 (host plant); Risbec 1950a:391 (host plant); Kalshoven 1957:11 (host plant); Uhmann 1958e:275 (catalog); Anand 1989:8 (India species); Zaka-Ur-Rab 1991:23 (biology); Maddison 1993:290 (host plant); Anand 1997:10 (morphology); Santiago-Blay 2004:73 (host plants); Staines 2011:1 (noted).

Hispa (Philodonta) modesta Weise. Maxwell-Lefroy 1907:139. Distribution: India (Pusa, Bellary), Pakistan. Food plants: Saccharum officinarum L., wild grasses (Maxwell-Lefroy 1909); Andropogon sorghum (L.) Brotero (Fletcher 1921); Sorghum vulgare Pers., Avena sativa L., Oryza sativa L. (Zaka-Ur-Rab 1991) (Poaceae).

Philodonta tuberculata (Pic 1924c) Pleurispa tuberculata Pic 1924c:28 (type: Ivory Coast, Dimbroko, NMNH). Philodonta tuberculata (Pic). Uhmann 1936d:410 (museum list), 1937g:373 (museum list),

1942a:11 (faunal list), 1943d:204 (sculpture), 1953b:21 (distribution), 1954h:198 (West Africa species), 1958e:275 (catalog), 1961a:73 (noted), 1964a:469 (catalog), 1967c:256 (faunal list); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:504 (types); Staines 2011:1 (noted).

Philodonta sudanica Weise 1925:226 (type: Khor Arrar, ZMHB?). Pic 1933:179 (synonymy); Uhmann 1936a:443 (synonymy); Jolivet 1953:1545 (faunal list).

Pleruispella weisei Uhmann 1931g:159 (type: Ituri, Mahagi; Elisabethville; Kasai, Belenge; MRAC). Uhmann 1936a:443 (synonymy); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Congo, Ivory Coast, Rwanda. Food plant: Unknown.


Platypria Guérin-Méneville 1840a Platypria Guérin-Méneville 1840a:139. Type species: Hispa echidna Guérin-Méneville 1840a,

by Maulik 1919. Chenu & Desmarest 1870:341 (noted); Chapuis 1875:336 (description), 1876:xxvii (faunal list), 1877:48 (noted); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3616 (catalog); Chenu 1884:341 (noted); Gestro 1890:226 (faunal list), 1897b:110 (noted), 1897b:111 (status), 1901b:437 (noted), 1904c:515 (Africa species), 1905b:519 (faunal list), 1909b:255 (Madagascar species), 1914:293 (faunal list), 1917:437 (faunal list), 1920:402 (faunal list), 1923:7 (catalog); Weise 1893:1059 (noted), 1897:142 (faunal list), 1905f:317 (key), 1910d:502 (faunal list), 1911b:106 (catalog); Kraatz 1895:193 (redescription); Péringuey 1898:116 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:599 (catalog); Alluaud 1900:328 (faunal list); Maxwell-Lefroy 1909:364 (noted); Maulik 1915:380 (museum list), 1916:576 (museum list), 1919:256 (India species), 1939:148 (noted); Schultze 1916:102 (faunal list); Uhmann 1931i:881 (museum list), 1940g:122 (claws), 1942a:32 (faunal list), 1949f:63 (sculpture), 1953b:40 (faunal list), 1954f:88 (faunal list), 1954h:194 (West Africa species), 1958e:343 (catalog), 1960b:90 (noted), 1960d:388 (distribution), 1961a:75 (faunal list), 1964a:483 (catalog); Gressitt 1938:334 (faunal list), 1939a:182 (distribution), 1950:136 (China species), 1957b:322 (South Pacific species), 1959a:72 (host plants), 1960a:90 (New Guinea species), 1960b:713 (New Guinea species), 1961:83 (host plants), 1982:711 (ecology); Bibby 1947:64 (faunal list); Chûjô 1953:124 (noted); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types); Chûjô & Kimoto 1961:195 (Japan species); Chen et al. 1962:122 (faunal list); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:937 (China species); Würmli 1975a:73 (genera), 1978:210 (revision); Nayar et al. 1976:353 (noted); Medler 1980:268 (faunal list); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); Anand 1984:11 (noted), 1989:8 (India species), 1997:5 (morphology); Kimoto 1966:640 (Japan species), 1987:30 (Japan species), 1999:112 (southeast Asia species), 2005:105 (faunal list); Jolivet 1989b:313 (host plants), 1997b:98 (noted); Kimoto & Takizawa 1994:345 (Japan species); Jolivet & Hawkeswood 1995:157 (host plants); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list); Basu 1999:189 (distribution); Mohamedsaid 2004:185 (Malaysian species); Santiago-Blay 2004:74 (host plants); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 2005:333 (Nepal species); Minelli 2005:94 (antennae); Staines 2005:48 (Spaeth species list); Lit & Caasi-Lit 2009:107 (host plant); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog).

Lobacantha Kirby 1837:227 (suppressed name, ICZN Opinion 376, 1955). Uhmann 1952a:266 (petition to suppress).

Dichirispa Gestro 1890:229. Type species: Platypria (Dichirispa) abdominalis Chapuis, designated by Uhmann 1949c. Gestro 1904c:515 (Africa species), 1905b:321 (faunal list), 1914:293 (faunal list); Weise 1905f:317 (key); Maulik 1939:148 (noted); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list).

Platypria (Dichirispa) Gestro. Weise 1905f:317; Uhmann 1949c:340 (key), 1954d:535 (sculpture), 1954f:87 (faunal list), 1958e:347 (catalog), 1964a:484 (catalog); Würmli 1975a:73 (genera), 1977:955 (revision).


Platypria (Dichirispa) abdominalis Chapuis 1877 Platypria abdominalis Chapuis 1877:50 (type: Madagascar, ISNB). Donckier 1899:599

(catalog); Alluaud 1900:328 (faunal list); Gestro 1909b:255 (Madagascar species); Weise 1910d:502 (faunal list); Uhmann 1960b:91 (noted).

Platypria (Dichirispa) abdominalis Chapuis. Weise 1911a:75 (catalog), 1911b:108 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:886 (noted), 1949c:337 (key), 1954d:535 (sculpture), 1958e:347 (catalog), 1964a:484 (catalog), 1964c:177 (faunal list); Monrós 1959:32 (illustration); Würmli 1977:967 (revision).


Platypria (Platypria) acanthion Gestro 1890 Platypria acanthion Gestro 1890:245 (type: Burma, Carin, MCSN). Gestro 1897b:116

(distribution), 1901b:437 (noted); Donckier 1899:600 (catalog); Weise 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:107 (catalog); Maulik 1919:262 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:344 (catalog); Würmli 1978:222 (revision); Anand 1997:7 (morphology); Hua 2002:294 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog).

Platypria erethizon Gestro 1897b:112 (type: Tonkin, Haut Song-Chai). Donckier 1899:600 (catalog); Gestro 1901b:437 (noted); Weise 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:107 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:345 (catalog); Würmli 1978:122 (synonymy). Distribution: China (Yunnan), Myanmar, Vietnam. Food plant: Unknown.

Platypria alces Gressitt 1938 Platypria alces Gressitt 1938:334 (type: China, Hainan, Ta Hau, USNM). Gressitt 1939a:182 (distribution), 1950:137 (China species); Uhmann 1958e:344 (catalog); Chen et al. 1962:122

(faunal list); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:937 (China species); Würmli 1978:219 (synonymy); Staines & Staines 1997:3 (types); Hua 2002:294 (faunal list); T’an 2002: 459 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:64, 387 (catalog).

Distribution: China (Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown. Platypria aliena Chen & Sun 1962 Platypria aliena Chen & Sun 1962:130 (type: China, Yunnan, Xi-shuang-ban-na, IZAS). Gressitt

& Kimoto 1963b:932 (noted); Würmli 1978:221 (synonymy); Yang & Sun 1991:60 (types); Hua 2002:294 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:65, 387 (catalog).

Distribution: China (Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown. Platypria (Dihirispa) Arabica Medvedev 2012 Platypria (Dihirispa) Arabica Medvedev 2012:418 (type: Yemen, Sana’a, Medvedev).

Distribution: Yemen. Food plant: Unknown.


Platypria (Platypria) bakeri Gestro 1922 Platypria bakeri Gestro 1922:62 (type: Philippines, Mindanao, Kolambugan, MCSN). Gestro

1922:105 (faunal list); Uhmann 1933a:77 (faunal list), 1958e:344 (catalog), 1964(1965):253 (faunal list); Würmli 1978:218 (revision).

Distribution: Philippines (Mindanao, Negros, Sibuyan). Food plant: Unknown.

Platypria (Dichirispa) centetes Guérin-Méneville 1840a Dichirispa centetes Guérin-Méneville 1840a:141 (type: Senegal, depository unknown). Kraatz

1895:193; Gestro 1904c:516 (Africa species), 1905b:548 (catalog); Uhmann 1966d:280 (noted); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list).

Platypria centetes (Guérin-Méneville). Gemminger & Harold 1876:3616 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:49 (noted); Kraatz 1895:193 (noted); Gestro 1901b:437 (noted); Uhmann 1936c:125 (noted), 1936d:413 (museum list), 1938d:425 (noted), 1953b:40 (distribution), 1954h:195 (West Africa species), 1954l:1114 (museum list), 1956e:566 (museum list), 1961a:75 (distribution); Tiberghien 1976:180 (faunal list); Medler 1980:268 (faunal list).

Platypria ceutetes (Guérin-Méneville) (sic). Donckier 1899:600 (lapsus calami, catalog). Platypria (Dichirispa) centetes Guérin-Méneville. Weise 1911a:75 (catalog), 1911b:108

(catalog); Uhmann 1942a:34 (faunal list), 1949c:342 (key), 1954c:40 (museum list), 1954d:535 (sculpture), 1958e:348 (catalog), 1964a:484 (catalog); Würmli 1977:966 (revision).

Platypria centetes obscurata Uhmann 1954h:196 (type: Nimba, Mt. To, MRAC). Uhmann 1958e:348 (catalog); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Congo, Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda. Food plant: Unknown.

Platypria (Platypria) chaetomys Gestro 1902b Platypria chaetomys Gestro 1902b:147 (type: Sarawak, Kuching, OXUM?). Weise 1905b:117

(faunal list), 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:107 (catalog); Gestro 1909(1910):147 (distribution), 1919:342 (faunal list); Uhmann 1958e:344 (catalog), 1960c:17 (faunal list), 1961c:509 (noted), 1964a:483 (catalog); Würmli 1978:216 (revision); Reid 1997:44 (faunal list); Mohamedsaid 2004:185 (Malaysian species).

Distribution: Malaysia. Food plant: Unknown. Platypria (Platypria) chiroptera Gestro 1899d Platypria chiroptera Gestro 1899d:172 (type: India, Ghates, MNHN). Donckier 1899:600

(catalog); Weise 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:107 (catalog); Maulik 1919:163 (India species); Bhasin 1942:10 (comparative note); Uhmann 1958e:344 (catalog); Chen et al. 1962:122 (faunal list); Würmli 1975b:380 (noted), 1978:221 (revision); Anand 1997:7 (morphology); Basu 1999:189 (distribution); Hua 2002:294 (faunal list); Kimoto 2005:105 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog).


Platypria garthwaitei Bhasin 1942:9 (type: Burma, Maymyo, IFRI). Uhmann 1958e:346 (catalog); Würmli 1978:221 (synonymy). Distribution: Bhutan, China (Guangdong, Yunnan), India (Sikkim, Tamil Nadu), Myanmar.

Food plant: Zizyphus incurva (Rhamnaceae) (Bhasin 1942). Platypria (Dichirispa) coronata (Guérin-Méneville 1840a) Hispa coronata Buquet. Dejean 1837:390 Nomen Nudum. Platypria coronata Guérin-Méneville 1840a:141 (type: Senegal, INSB?). Berge 1844:87

(noted); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3616 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:49 (noted); Kraatz 1895:193 (noted); Donckier 1899:600 (catalog); Uhmann 1938d:425 (distribution), 1956f:343 (catalog), 1966d:280 (noted); Santiago-Blay 2004:73 (host plants).

Platypria (Dichirispa) coronata (Guérin-Méneville). Weise 1911a:75 (catalog), 1911b:107 (catalog); Uhmann 1931c:8 (noted), 1931i:887 (noted), 1937g:382 (noted), 1954c:42 (noted), 1954d:538 (sculpture), 1954f:89 (faunal list), 1958e:348 (catalog), 1964a:484 (catalog); Würmli 1977:968 (revision).

Dichirispa coronata (Guérin-Méneville). Gestro 1904a:179 (faunal list), 1904c:515 (Africa species), 1905b:548 (catalog).

Platypria coronata coronata Guérin-Méneville. Uhmann 1949b:681 (distribution), 1949c:342 (key), 1954h:195 (West Africa species).

Dichirispa coronata coronata (Guérin-Méneville). Uhmann 1953b:42 (distribution); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list).

Platypria (Dichirispa) alticola Gestro 1914:295 (type: Kenya, Nairobi, MNHN). Uhmann 1936a:451 (faunal list).

Platypria coronata alticola Gestro. Uhmann 1954d:537 (sculpture), 1958e:348 (catalog), 1961c:508 (noted).

Platypria raffrayi Chapuis 1877:49 (type: Zanzibar, ISNB). Donckier 1899:601 (catalog); Uhmann 1928g:91 (faunal list), 1931g:162 (noted), 1935i:177 (faunal list).

Dichirispa raffrayi (Chapuis). Gestro 1904c:516 (Africa species), 1905b:548 (catalog). Platypria (Dichirispa) raffrayi Chapuis. Weise 1910c:240 (comparative note), 1911a:75

(catalog), 1911b:108 (catalog); Achard 1917:71 (distribution); Uhmann 1931c:9 (noted), 1931i:890 (noted), 1949f:53 (synonymy), 1954b:16 (noted), 1954d:535 (sculpture), 1964a:484 (catalog); Gomes Alves 1951:187 (distribution).

Platypria coronata raffrayi Chapuis. Uhmann 1953b:42 (distribution), 1954f:92 (faunal list), 1954h:195 (West Africa species), 1957j:124 (faunal list), 1958e:349 (catalog), 1961c:508 (noted), 1966b:219 (faunal list).

Platypria transvaalensis Péringuey 1898:116 (type: South Africa, Transvaal, Leydenburg, ISNB). Donckier 1899:601 (catalog); Gestro 1911:25 (noted), 1914:297 (noted); Weise 1911a:75 (catalog), 1911b:108 (catalog); Uhmann 1931c:9 (noted), 1931g:162 (noted), 1931i:890 (noted), 1936a:451 (faunal list), 1937g:382 (museum list), 1938c:115 (museum list), 1938d:425 (distribution).

Dichirispa transvaalensis (Péringuey). Gestro 1904c:516 (Africa species), 1905b:549 (catalog), 1911b:25 (noted).

Platypria coronata transvaalensis (Péringuey). Uhmann 1949b:681 (distribution), 1949c:342


(key), 1954d:537 (sculpture), 1954h:195 (West Africa species), 1956f:343 (catalog), 1956g:79 (faunal list), 1957e:342 (faunal list), 1958e:349 (catalog), 1961a:75 (distribution), 1964a:484 (catalog), 1967c:258 (faunal list); Tiberghien 1976:180 (faunal list); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list).

Platypria connexa Péringuey 1898:117 (type: South Africa, Transvaal, Potchefstroom, SAMC). Donckier 1899:600 (catalog); Weise 1911a:75 (catalog), 1911b:108 (catalog).

Dichirispa connexa (Péringuey). Gestro 1904c:516 (Africa species), 1905b:549 (catalog). Platypria coronata connexa Péringuey. Uhmann 1949b:681 (noted), 1954d:537 (sculpture),

1955g:457 (museum list), 1956f:343 (catalog), 1958e:349 (catalog). Hispa usambarica Weise 1898:224 (type: German East Africa, Kwai, ZMHB). Platypria usambarica (Weise). Gestro 1901b:437 (noted); Weise 1910c:240 (faunal list),

1911a:75 (catalog), 1911b:108 (catalog); Uhmann 1931f:226 (museum list), 1931g:162 (noted).

Platypria (Dichirispa) usambarica (Weise). Uhmann 1931c:9 (noted), 1931i:887 (noted), 1937g:382 (noted), 1942a:33 (faunal list), 1949c:341 (key).

Platypria coronata usambarica (Weise). Uhmann 1949f:53 (status), 1954f:93 (faunal list), 1957e:343 (faunal list), 1958a:224 (pupa), 1958e:350 (catalog), 1960d:390 (noted), 1964a:484 (catalog).

Dichirispa coendu Gestro 1911b:26 (type: Uganda, Bugala, MCSN). Platypria coendu (Gestro). Weise 1911a:75 (catalog), 1911b:108 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:348

(catalog); Würmli 1977:968 (synonymy). Platypria (Dichirispa) atherura Gestro 1914:293 (type: Mombasa; Tanga; MNHN). Uhmann

1960f:305 (synonymy), 1964a:484 (catalog); Würmli 1977:968 (synonymy). Platypria (Dichirispa) auromicans Gestro 1923:8 (type: Uganda, Lughezza, MCSN). Uhmann

1931i:888 (comparative note), 1936d:413 (noted), 1938d:425 (distribution). Platypria (Dichirispa) auromicans Gestro. Uhmann 1942a:32 (faunal list), 1949c:341 (key). Platypria coronata auromicans Gestro. Uhmann 1949b:681 (museum list), 1953b:40

(distribution), 1954d:537 (sculpture), 1954f:89 (faunal list), 1955c:245 (distribution), 1956f:343 (catalog), 1958e:349 (catalog), 1960d:388 (noted), 1961a:75 (distribution), 1964a:484 (catalog).

Platypria (Dichirispa) loveni Weise 1926:28 (type: British East Africa, Lumbwa, NHRS). Uhmann 1936d:413 (synonymy).

Platypria funebris kalongana Uhmann 1936d:414 (type: Ruwenzori, Kalonge, MRAC). Uhmann 1963e:253 (museum list); Würmli 1977:968 (synonymy).

Platypria (Dichirispa) funebris kalongana Uhmann. Uhmann 1942a:33 (faunal list), 1947a:134 (type), 1949c:341 (key), 1949f:53 (museum list), 1953b:42 (noted), 1954d:537 (sculpture), 1954h:195 (West Africa species), 1955c:245 (distribution), 1958e:350 (catalog), 1961a:94 (distribution), 1964a:484 (catalog); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list).

Platypria coronata inchoata Uhmann 1954f:91 (type: Lusinga, MRAC). Uhmann 1958e:349 (catalog); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Angola, Congo, Eritrea, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.


Food plants: Desmodium repandum (Vahl.) DC (Uhmann 1958a); Pueraria phaseoloides (Roxburgh) Bentham (Bernon & Graves 1979) (Fabaceae).

Platypria (Dichirispa) corpulenta Weise 1910b Platypria (Dichirispa) corpulenta Weise 1910b:161 (type: Mt. Gomo, South Ogowe, ZMHB).

Weise 1911a:75 (catalog), 1911b:108 (catalog); Uhmann 1931g:161 (noted), 1931i:890 (noted), 1949c:342 (key), 1953b:42 (distribution), 1954d:535 (sculpture), 1958e:350 (catalog), 1966b:219 (faunal list), 1967c:258 (faunal list); Würmli 1977:972 (revision).

Platypria corpulenta Weise. Uhmann 1936a:451 (faunal list), 1954h:195 (West Africa species). Dichirispa corpulenta (Weise). Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types). Platypria corpulenta congoana Uhmann 1937g:379 (type: Equateur, Lukolela; Bas-Congo,

Mangembo, MRAC). Uhmann 1947a:134 (type), 1949c:342 (key), 1953b:42 (distribution), 1958e:350 (catalog); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, Togo. Food plant: Unknown.

Platypria (Dichirispa) decemspinosa Kraatz 1895 Platypria decemspinosa Kraatz 1895:193 (type: Togo, DEI). Donckier 1899:600 (catalog);

Uhmann 1931g:160 (noted), 1954h:195 (West Africa species), 1961a:90 (distribution); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:370 (types).

Platypria (Dichirispa) decemspinosa Kraatz. Weise 1911a:75 (catalog), 1911b:108 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:886 (noted), 1949c:340 (key), 1954d:536 (sculpture), 1958e:350 (catalog), 1964a:484 (catalog); Würmli 1977:965 (revision).

Dichirispa decemspinosa (Kraatz). Gestro 1904c:515 (Africa species), 1905b:548 (catalog); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list).

Platypria clavareaui Weise 1901:226 (type: Djabbir, Haut Uellé, ZMHB). Uhmann 1935i:177 (faunal list), 1936a:451 (synonymy), 1936d:413 (museum list), 1953b:40 (distribution), 1957j:125 (faunal list).

Dichirispa clavareaui (Weise). Gestro 1904c:515 (Africa species), 1905b:548 (catalog). Platypria (Dichirispa) clavareaui Weise. Weise 1911a:75 (catalog), 1911b:107 (catalog); Achard

1917:72 (comparative note); Uhmann 1931i:887 (noted), 1949c:340 (key), 1954d:535 (sculpture), 1954f:89 (faunal list), 1958e:348 (catalog), 1967c:258 (faunal list); Würmli 1977:965 (synonymy).

Platypria tuberculata Achard 1917:71 (type: Fort Crampel, NMPC). Uhmann 1931i:887 (synonymy), 1938d:424 (noted), 1949b:681 (distribution), 1954d:536 (sculpture), 1958e:352 (catalog); Würmli 1977:965 (synonymy).

Platypria decemspinosa detersa Uhmann 1931i:887 (type: Cameroon, Uam-Gebiet, ZMHB). Uhmann 1949b:682 (lectotype), 1949c:337 (key), 1958e:350 (catalog), 1968a:365 (faunal list); Würmli 1977:965 (synonymy); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sudan, Togo, Uganda.



Platypria (Platypria) dimidiata Chapuis 1877 Platypria dimidiata Chapuis 1877:49 (type: Malacca, ISNB). Gestro 1897b:78 (distribution),

1899c:325 (distribution); Donckier 1899:600 (catalog); Weise 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:107 (catalog); Uhmann 1935g:150 (faunal list), 1953h:91 (faunal list), 1958e:345 (catalog); Würmli 1978:216 (revision); Mohamedsaid 2004:185 (Malaysian species).

Platypria dimidiata atrata Gestro 1897:79. Uhmann 1958e:345 (catalog). Distribution: Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Malacca, Sumatra), Malaysia. Food plant: Unknown. Platypria (Platypria) echidna Guérin-Méneville 1840a Platypria echidna Guérin-Méneville 1840a:139 (type: India, Visapour, depository unknown).

Tennent 1868:452 (faunal list); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3616 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:48 (noted); Baly 1888a:663 (faunal list); Gestro 1890:245 (distribution), 1897b:112 (distribution), 1901b:437 (noted), 1920:402 (faunal list); Weise 1897:126 (faunal list), 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:107 (catalog); Donckier 1899:600 (catalog); Allard 1904:161 (faunal list); Maxwell-Lefroy 1909:365 (noted); Fletcher 1914:205 (host plant); Maulik 1915:380 (museum list), 1916:576 (museum list), 1919:261 (India species); Gressitt 1939c:138 (distribution); Beeson 1941:229 (host plants); Kalshoven 1957:13 (host plant); Uhmann 1958e:345 (catalog), 1961c:509 (noted), 1966d:279 (noted); Chûjô & Kimoto 1961:195 (Japan species); Chen et al. 1962:122 (faunal list); Kimoto 1966:640 (Japan species), 1989:484 (faunal list), 1999:113 (southeast Asia species), 2003:42 (faunal list), 2005:105 (faunal list); Kimoto & Gressitt 1966:571 (faunal list); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:96 (Bangladesh species); Würmli 1975b:372 (faunal list), 1978:122 (revision); Takizawa 1985a:4 (faunal list); Zaka-Ur-Rab 1991:24 (biology); Mann & Crowson 1996:301 (internal sac); Anand 1997:7 (morphology); Basu 1999:189 (distribution); L. Medvedev 2000b:24 (faunal list); Hua 2002:294 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:73 (host plants); Świętojańska et al. 2006:66 (noted); Borowiec & Świętojańska 2007:286 (distribution); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:492 (faunal list). Distribution: Bangladesh, China (Yunnan), Cambodia, India (Bihar, Goa, Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu), Japan, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam. Food plants: Erythrina lithosperma Blume ex. Miq. (Fabaceae) (Fletcher 1914); Desmodium gangeticum (L.) DC, Erythrina sp., Pueraria tuberosa DC (Fabaceae), Zizyphus spp. (Rhamnaceae) (Beeson 1941); Mallotus sp. (Euphorbiaceae), Erythrina variegata orientalis Murr. (Fabaceae) (Hua 2002); Erythrina lithosperma Blume ex. Miq. (Fabaceae) (Zaka-Ur-Rab 1991).

Platypria (Platypria) erinaceus (Fabricius 1801b) Hispa erinaceus Fabricius 1801b:59 (type: India, ZMUC). Illiger 1804b:169 (noted); Gyllenhal

1817:2 (noted); Schönherr 1817:4 (catalog); Dejean 1837:390 (collection list); Zimsen 1964:125 (types).

Hispa erinacea Fabricius. Olivier 1808:762 (noted).


Platypria erinaceus (Fabricius). Guérin-Méneville 1840a:141 (transfer); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:50 (noted); Gestro 1890:247 (distribution), 1897b:111 (distribution), 1901b:437 (noted); Weise 1897:126 (faunal list), 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:106 (catalog); Maulik 1915:381 (museum list), 1919:259 (India species), 1937:156 (host plant); Beeson 1941:229 (host plants); Uhmann 1958e:345 (catalog); Würmli 1978:221 (revision); Mann & Crowson 1983b:2 (morphology), 1985a:79 (male genitalia); Suzuki 1983a:94 (noted); Mann 1988:125 (male genitalia); Anand 1989:9 (India species), Anand 1997:7 (morphology); L. Medvedev 1992a:35 (faunal list); Mann & Crowson 1996:301 (internal sac); Basu 1999:189 (distribution); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:347 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:73 (host plants); Kimoto 2005:105 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:387 (catalog).

Platypria erinacea (Fabricius) (sic). Donckier 1899:600 (lapsus calami, catalog); SprecherUebersax 2011:492 (faunal list).

Platypria erinaceus bengalensis Gestro 1897:112 (type: Philippines, Barway, ISNB). Weise 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:106 (catalog); Maulik 1919:260 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:346 (catalog); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:96 (Bangladesh species).

Platypria andrewesi Weise 1904a:404 (type: India, Bombay, ZMHB, BMNH). Maxwell-Lefroy & Howlett 1909:364 (host plant); Weise 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:107 (catalog); Reh 1913:532 (noted); Fletcher 1914:204 (host plant); Stebbing 1914:265 (biology); Beeson 1941:229 (host plants); Maulik 1919:260 (India species), 1937:155 (host plant); Speyer 1932:226 (noted), 1954:368 (host plant); Uhmann 1943a:246 (sculpture), 1957i:366 (larva), 1958e:344 (catalog), 1964a:483 (catalog); Kalshoven 1957:13 (host plant); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:95 (Pakistan species); Kimoto 1972:48 (faunal list); Nair 1975:194 (host plant); Würmli 1978:221 (synonymy); Anand 1984:10 (noted), 1989:8 (India species), Anand 1997:7 (morphology); Pajni et al. 1987:34 (internal reproductive system); Zaka-Ur-Rab 1991:23 (biology); Basu 1999:189 (distribution); Santiago-Blay 2004:73 (host plants); Balikai 2009:461 (pest status). Distribution: Bangladesh, India (Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Pondicherry, Punjab, Tamil Nadu), Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka. Food plants: Zizyphus jujuba Lamarck (Rhamnaceae) (Maxwell-Lefroy 1909); Erythrina sp. (Maulik 1919) (Fabaceae); Desmodium gangeticum (L.) DC, Pueraria tuberosa DC (Fabaceae), Zizyphus spp. (Rhamnaceae) (Beeson 1941); Oryza sativa L. (Poaceae) (Anand 1989); Zizyphus mauritiana Lam. (Rhamnaceae) (Zaka-Ur-Rab 1991).

Platypria (Platypria) fenestrata Pic 1924b Platypria fenestrata Pic 1924b:100 (type: Vietnam, Tonkin, Lac Tho, MNHN). Gressitt 1939a:

182 (distribution), 1950:137 (China species), 1953b:126 (distribution); Uhmann 1958e: 346 (catalog), 1964a:484 (catalog); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:937 (China species); Würmli 1978:222 (distribution); Kimoto 1999:113 (southeast Asia species); Hua 2002:294 (faunal list).

Distribution: China (Fukien, Hunan, Kwangtung, Yunnan), India, Vietnam. Food plant: Unknown.


Platypria (Dichirispa) funebris Gestro 1904c Platypria funebris Gestro 1904c:518 (type: Fernando Poo, Moka, DEI). Weise 1912:96 (noted). Platypria (Dichirispa) funebris Gestro. Weise 1911a:75 (catalog), 1911b:108 (catalog); Uhmann

1931i:890 (noted), 1936a:451 (faunal list), 1949c:343 (key), 1954d:537 (sculpture), 1958e:350 (catalog), 1963b:474 (museum list); Würmli 1977:972 (revision).

Dichirispa funebris (Gestro). Gestro 1904c:516 (Africa species), 1905b:521 (faunal list); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:373 (types); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list).

Platypria funebris funebris Gestro. Uhmann 1954h:196 (West Africa species). Platypria ugandina Uhmann 1931g:161 (nomen nudum). Uhmann 1931i:890 (museum list),

1935i:177 (faunal list). Platypria ugandina Spaeth 1937c:380 (type: Uganda, BMNH). Uhmann 1931g:161 (noted),

1936d:414 (museum list), 1949b:682 (lectotype), 1953b:44 (noted), 1961a:77 (noted), 1963b:474 (museum list), 1964a:485 (catalog); Würmli 1977:972 (synonymy); Staines 2005:48 (Spaeth species list).

Platypria (Dichirispa) ugandina Spaeth. Uhmann 1942a:33 (faunal list), 1949c:341 (key), 1954d:536 (sculpture), 1954f:96 (faunal list), 1958e:352 (catalog).

Dichirispa ugandina (Spaeth). Medler 1980:263 (faunal list). Distribution: Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Guinea, Nigeria, Uganda. Food plant: Unknown.

Platypria (Dichirispa) hastulata Uhmann 1954c Platypria hastulata Uhmann 1954c:43 (type: Madagascar, Antsingy du Nord, ZMHB). Gaedike

& Döbler 1971:375 (types); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list). Platypria (Dichirispa) hastulata Uhmann. Würmli 1977:970 (revision). Distribution: Congo. Food plant: Unknown.

Platypria (Platypria) hystrix (Fabricius 1798) Hispa hystrix Fabricius 1798:116 (type: India, ZMUC). Illiger 1804b:169 (noted); Gyllenhal

1817:2 (noted); Schönherr 1817:4 (catalog); Dejean 1837:390 (collection list); Berge 1844:87 (noted); Tennent 1868:452 (faunal list); Zimsen 1964:125 (types).

Platypria histrix (Fabricius) (sic). Guérin-Méneville 1840a:141 (lapsus calami, transfer); Takizawa 1985a:4 (faunal list), 1986:47 (faunal list), 1989:327 (faunal list); Pajni et al. 1987:34 (internal reproductive system); Rani & Sridhar 2004:505 (host plant); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:388 (catalog).

Platypria hystrix (Fabricius). Gemminger & Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:49 (noted); Gestro 1897b:113 (distribution), 1901b:437 (noted); Donckier 1899:600 (catalog); Weise 1905b:117 (faunal list), 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:107 (catalog); Fletcher 1914a:205 (host plant), 1914b:316 (biology); Maulik 1915:381 (museum list), 1916:577 (museum list), 1919:264 (India species), 1937:156 (host plant); Beeson 1941:229 (host plants); Uhmann 1938f:227 (distribution), 1958e:346 (catalog), 1964a:484 (catalog); Gressitt 1950:138 (China species); Kalshoven 1951:762 (host plant), 1957:13 (host plant); Speyer 1954:368 (host plant); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:938


(China species); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:95 (Pakistan species); Kimoto & Takizawa 1973:180 (faunal list), 1983:96 (faunal list); Nair 1975:58, 270, 351 (host plants); Würmli 1975b:381 (noted), 1978:219 (revision); Petitpierre et al. 1988:179 (chromosomes); Anand 1989:9 (India species); Zaka-Ur-Rab 1991:24 (biology); Sprecher-Uebersax 1996:87 (faunal list); Anand 1997:7 (morphology); Basu 1999:190 (distribution); Kimoto 1999:113 (southeast Asia species), 2003:42 (faunal list), 2005:105 (faunal list); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:347 (faunal list); Hua 2002:294 (faunal list); T’an 2002:459 (faunal list); Mohamedsaid 2004:185 (Malaysian species), 2009:99 (distribution); Santiago-Blay 2004:74 (host plants); Borowiec & Świętojańska 2007:286 (distribution); Julio et al. 2010:30 (noted); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:492 (faunal list).

Hispa erinacea Olivier 1808:762 (not Fabricius) (type: Indies orientales, MNHN?). GuérinMéneville 1840a:141 (synonymy); Tennent 1868:452 (faunal list); Gemminger & Harold 1876:617 (synonymy).

Platypria digitata Gestro 1888b:178 (type: Burma, Teinzo, MCSN). Baly 1888a:490 (faunal list), 1889:490 (distribution); Gestro 1890:247 (distribution), 1897b:113 (synonymy).

Platypria ericulus Gestro 1890:247 (type: Burma, MCSN). Gestro 1897b:114 (distribution), 1901b:437 (noted), 1920:402 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:600 (catalog); Weise 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:107 (catalog); Maulik 1919:265 (distribution); Uhmann 1939a:9 (faunal list), 1958e:345 (catalog); Würmli 1978:219 (synonymy); Anand 1997:7 (morphology).

Platypria echinogale Gestro 1897:71 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, Tandjong Morawa, RMNH). Gestro 1897b:78 (distribution), 1899c:325 (distribution), 1901b:437 (noted), 1902b:150 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:600 (catalog); Weise 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:107 (catalog); Uhmann 1928e:375 (faunal list), 1929a:149 (faunal list), 1929b:3 (faunal list), 1931e:4 (faunal list), 1934a:30 (distribution), 1935g:150 (faunal list), 1938d:428 (distribution), 1939c:43 (noted), 1958e:345 (catalog), 1964a:484 (catalog); Kalshoven 1951:762 (host plant); Gressitt 1957b:322 (South Pacific species); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types); Würmli 1978:219 (synonymy); Mohamedsaid 2000a:358 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:73 (host plants); Haitlinger 2009:64 (mites).

Platypria sumatrensis Csiki 1900a:196 (type: Indonesia, Sumatra, HNHM). Gestro 1902:150 (synonymy).

Platypria echinogale testaceicollis Heller 1916:116 (type: Indonesia, Celebes, Makassar, Bontorio, depository unknown). Uhmann 1958e:345 (catalog), 1960c:23 (faunal list); Würmli 1978:219 (synonymy).

Platypria fenestrata latenigra Pic 1927:26 (type: Vietnam, Tonkin, Chapa, MNHN). Uhmann 1958e:346 (catalog), 1964a:484 (catalog); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types); Würmli 1978:219 (synonymy). Distribution: Bhutan, China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan), India (Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal), Indonesia (Borneo, Celebes, Java, Lombok, Sumatra), Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam. Food plants: Erythrina sp. (Fabaceae) (Fletcher 1914); Dolichos lablab L., Sesbania grandiflora (L.) Persoon (Maulik 1919); Rubus ellipticus Sm. (Roseacae), Myrica sp. (Myricaceae) (Maulik 1936); Desmodium gangeticum (L.) DC, Pueraria tuberosa (L.)


DC (Fabaceae) , Zizyphus spp. (Rhamnaceae) (Beeson 1941); Erythrina indica Lam. (Fabaceae) (Gressitt 1950); Cajanus cajan (Fabaceae) (Uhmann 1954f); Tephrossa candida DC, Cajanus indicus Sprengel, Uncaria gambir Roxburgh (Rubiaceae) (Kalshoven 1957); Erythrina lithosperma Miq., Sesbania aculeate Poir. (Fabaceae) (Zaka-Ur-Rab 1991); Myrica rubra (Lour.) Siebold & Zucc. (Myricaceae), Rubus sp. (Roseacae) (Hua 2002); Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC (Fabaceae) (Rani & Sridhar 2004).

Platypria (Platypria) infuscata Gestro 1917 Platypria infuscata Gestro 1917:438 (type: Philippines, Mindanao, Zamboanga, MCSN). Gestro

1922:105 (faunal list); Uhmann 1958e:347 (catalog), 1964(1965):253 (faunal list); Würmli 1978:218 (revision).

Distribution: Philippines (Mindanao). Food plant: Unknown.

Platypria (Platypria) longispina Chapuis 1876 Platypria longispina Chapuis 1876:xxvii (type: Philippines, Mindanao, ISNB). Gemminger &

Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:49 (noted); Gestro 1897b:116 (distribution), 1917:438 (faunal list), 1922:105 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:601 (catalog); Weise 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:107 (catalog); Schultze 1916:102 (faunal list); Uhmann 1930-1932:60 (redescription), 1933a:77 (faunal list), 1954d:535 (noted), 1958e:347 (catalog); Würmli 1978:218 (revision).

Platypria ferruginea Weise 1913:238 (type: Philippines, Mindoro, Magaran, IRRI). Schultze 1916:102 (faunal list); Gestro 1917:438 (faunal list), 1922:105 (faunal list); Uhmann 1958e:346 (catalog), 1964(1965):253 (faunal list); Würmli 1978:218 (synonymy).

Platypria invreae Gestro 1917:437 (type: Philippines, Luzon, Tayabas, Malinao, MCSN). Gestro 1922:105 (faunal list); Uhmann 1958e:347 (catalog), 1964(1965):253 (faunal list); Würmli 1978:218 (synonymy).

Distribution: Philippines (Basilan, Biliran, Leyte, Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro). Food plant: Unknown.

Platypria (Dichirispa) luctuosa Chapuis 1877 Platypria luctuosa Chapuis 1877:49 (type: Calabar, INSB?). Donckier 1899:601 (catalog);

Uhmann 1931g:161 (noted), 1954h:196 (West Africa species); Medler 1980:268 (faunal list).

Platypria (Dichirispa) luctuosa Chapuis. Weise 1911a:75 (catalog), 1911b:108 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:889 (noted), 1949c:343 (key), 1953b:43 (distribution), 1954d:537 (sculpture), 1958e:351 (catalog); Gomes Alves 1949:114 (distribution); Würmli 1977:964 (revision).

Dichirispa luctuosa (Chapuis). Gestro 1904c:516 (Africa species), 1905b:548 (catalog); Medler 1980:263 (faunal list).

Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Guinea, Guinea-Basso, Guinea, Nigeria, Togo. Food plant: Unknown.


Platypria (Platypria) melli Uhmann 1954a Platypria melli Uhmann 1954a:211 (type: south China, NHRS, ZMHB). Uhmann 1958e:347

(catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:939 (China species); Kimoto 1966:640 (Japan species); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:380 (types); Würmli 1978:221 (revision); Q. Chen 1982:32 (biology); Kimoto 1987:30 (Japanese species); T’an & Yu 1992:609 (faunal list), 1993:354 (faunal list); Kimoto & Takizawa 1994:345 (Japan species); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list); Schmitt 1998:149 (morphology); Hua 2002:294 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:388 (catalog); Ulmen et al. 2010:13 (types).

Platypria fenestrata Pic. Gressitt 1939a:182 (misidentification), 1950:137 (China species), 1953:126 (correction).

Distribution: Bhutan, China (Anhui, Fukien, Hunan, Kwangtung, Szechwan, Yunnan), Japan.

Food plants: Paliurus ramosissimus Poir., Hovenia sp., Ziziphus jujuba Lam. (Rhamnaceae) (Hua 2002).

Platypria (Platypria) moluccana Weise 1922b Platypria moluccana Weise 1922b:84 (type: Batchian, ZHMB). Uhmann 1949b:671 (lectotype),

1958e:347 (catalog), 1960c:24 (faunal list), 1964a:484 (catalog); Würmli 1978:220 (revision).

Platypria moluccana moluccana Weise. Gressitt 1957b:323 (South Pacific species). Platypria moluccana aitapennis Gressitt 1957b:323 (type: New Guinea, Aitape, AMSA).

Gressitt 1960a:90 (New Guinea species), 1960b:713 (New Guinea species); Uhmann 1964a:484 (catalog).

Distribution: Indonesia (Celebes), New Guinea. Food plant: Unknown.

Platypria (Dichirispa) natalensis Gestro 1905b Platypria natalensis Gestro 1905b:516 (type: South Africa, MCSN). Uhmann 1934b:395

(museum list), 1955g:457 (museum list), 1956f:343 (catalog), 1961a:75 (distribution). Dichirispa natalensis (Gestro). Gestro 1904c:516 (Africa species), 1905b:548 (catalog). Platypria (Dichirispa) natalensis Gestro. Weise 1911a:75 (catalog), 1911b:108 (catalog);

Uhmann 1949c:343 (key), 1954d:535 (sculpture), 1958e:351 (catalog), 1964a:485 (catalog); Würmli 1977:973 (revision).

Platypria (Dichirispa) natalensis hastulata Uhmann 1953b:43 (type: Kivu, Tshibinda, MRAC). Uhmann 1955c:245 (distribution), 1958e:351 (catalog).

Distribution: Rwanda, South Africa, Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown.

Platypria (Dichirispa) nigrospinosa Fairmaire 1891 Platypria nigrospinosa Fairmaire 1891:305 (type: locality not specified, NHMW). Donckier

1899:601 (catalog); Uhmann 1931f:226 (museum list), 1934b:395 (museum list), 1953b:43 (noted), 1956f:343 (catalog), 1960d:390 (noted).

Dichirispa nigrospinosa (Fairmaire). Gestro 1904c:516 (Africa species), 1905b:548 (catalog).


Platypria (Dichirispa) nigrospinosa Fairmaire. Weise 1910b:162 (noted), 1911a:75 (catalog), 1911b:108 (catalog); Uhmann 1928g:91 (faunal list), 1930f:171 (museum list), 1931g:162 (noted), 1931i:888 (noted), 1949c:343 (key), 1953b:43 (faunal list), 1954d:535 (sculpture), 1954f:95 (faunal list), 1956f:343 (faunal list), 1957e:343 (faunal list), 1958e:351 (catalog), 1964a:485 (catalog); Würmli 1977:970 (revision).

Platypria mashuna Péringuey 1898:116 (type: Zambesia, Salisbury, SAMC). Donckier 1899:601 (catalog); Marshall 1902:349 (predator).

Dichirispa mashuna (Péringuey). Gestro 1904c:516 (Africa species), 1905b:548 (catalog). Platypria nigrospinosa mashuna Péringuey. Uhmann 1931c:9 (new status), 1931i:889

(synonymy). Platypria mashonana kigonserensis Weise 1906:58 (type: German East Africa, ZMHB). Weise

1910b:162 (synonymy), 1911a:75 (catalog), 1911b:108 (catalog); Uhmann 1931g:162 (synonymy).

Platypria mashonana Weise 1910b:162 (not Péringuey) (type: Mashonaland, Salisbury, ZMHB). Weise 1911a:75 (catalog), 1911b:108 (catalog), Uhmann 1934b:395 (synonymy); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:505 (types); Würmli 1977:970 (synonymy).

Platypria (Dichirispa) ertli Weise 1913:111 (type: Angola, Bailundo, NHRS, ZMHB). Uhmann 1949c:343 (key), 1958e:350 (catalog).

Platypria ertli Weise. Uhmann 1949f:52 (museum list). Platypria maculata Uhmann 1928g:91 Nomen Nudum. Platypria maculata Uhmann 1930f:172 (type: Nyasaland, between Zomba and Blantrye, ZMHU).

Uhmann 1946a:18 (type), 1949c:343 (key); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list). Platypria (Dichirispa) maculata Uhmann. Uhmann 1931i:888 (noted), 1954d:537 (sculpture),

1958e:351 (catalog), 1960d:390 (noted), 1964a:485 (catalog). Distribution: Angola, Burundi, Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.


Platypria (Dichirispa) nodifera Spaeth 1934b Platypria nodifera Spaeth 1934b:395 (type: South Africa, Transvaal, Pretoria, BMNH; South

Africa, Transvaal, Mulder’s Drift, SAMC). Uhmann 1949c:337 (key), 1955g:457 (museum list), 1956f:338 (museum list), 1957e:343 (faunal list), 1958e:352 (catalog); Staines 2005:48 (Spaeth species list).

Platypria (Dichirispa) nodifera Spaeth. Uhmann 1954d:537 (sculpture), 1957e:343 (faunal list), 1958e:352 (catalog), 1964a:485 (catalog); Würmli 1977:967 (revision).


Platypria parva Chen & Sun 1964 Platypria parva Chen & Sun 1964:115 (type: China, Yunnan, Shishong-Baanna, IZAS). Gressitt

& Kimoto 1965:805 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:60 (types); Hua 2002:294 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:388 (catalog). Distribution: China (Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown.


Platypria paravanthion Chen & Sun 1962 Platypria paravanthion Chen & Sun 1962:138 (type: China, Yunnan, Xi-shuang-ban-na, IZAS).

Gressitt & Kimoto 1963b:932 (noted); Würmli 1978:219 (synonymy); Yang & Sun 1991:60 (types); Hua 2002:202 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:65, 388 (catalog).

Distribution: China (Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown. Platypria (Dichirispa) paucispinosa Gestro 1904c Platypria paucispinosa Gestro 1904c:520 (type: S. Thomé, MCSN). Gestro 1905b:519 (faunal

list); Weise 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:107 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:347 (catalog). Platypria (Dichirispa) paucispinosa Gestro. Uhmann 1954d:537 (sculpture); Würmli 1977:964

(revision). Platypria feae Gestro 1904c:522 (type: Principe, MCSN). Gestro 1905b:520 (faunal list); Weise

1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:107 (catalog); Uhmann 1931g:162 (noted), 1958e:346 (catalog); Würmli 1977:964 (synonymy).

Distribution: Congo, Insel Principe, Insel São Tomé. Food plant: Icacina manni Oliv. (Icacinaceae) (Uhmann 1954l).

Platypria (Platypria) seminigra Heller 1916 Platypria seminigra Heller 1916:117 (type: Indonesia, Celebes, Monte Lakini, SMTD). Uhmann

1958e:347 (catalog), 1960c:23 (faunal list); Würmli 1978:218 (revision). Distribution: Indonesia (Celebes). Food plant: Unknown.

Platypria (Platypria) subopaca Chapuis 1876 Platypria subopaca Chapuis 1876:xxvii (type: Philippines, Mindanao, ISNB). Gemminger &

Harold 1876:3617 (catalog); Chapuis 1877:49 (noted); Gestro 1897b:116 (distribution), 1917:438 (faunal list), 1922:105 (faunal list); Donckier 1899:601 (catalog); Weise 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:107 (catalog); Schultze 1916:102 (faunal list); Uhmann 1930-1932:60 (noted), 1933a:77 (faunal list), 1954d:535 (noted), 1958e:347 (catalog), 1964(1965):253 (faunal list); Würmli 1978:220 (revision).

Platypria squalida Gestro 1898e:49 (type: Philippines, Celebes, MCSN). Gestro 1901b:437 (noted); Weise 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:107 (catalog); Uhmann 1939d:5 (faunal list), 1949b:672 (noted), 1958e:347 (catalog), 1960c:24 (faunal list), 1964a:484 (catalog); Gressitt 1957b:323 (South Pacific species); Würmli 1978:220 (synonymy).

Distribution: Indonesia (Celebes, Sumatra), Philippines (Biliran, Mindanao). Food plant: Unknown. Platypria (Dicirispa) tuberculata Achard 1917 Platypria (Dichirispa) tuberculata Achard 1917:71 (type: Congo, Fort Crampel, NMPC).

Uhmann 1964a:485 (catalog). Platypria tuberculata Achard. Uhmann 1961a:76 (noted). Distribution: Congo. Food plant: Unknown.


Platypria yunnana Gressitt 1939a Platypria yunnana Gressitt 1939a:183 (type: China, Yunnan, Dragon Noir, ICRI). Gressitt

1950:138 (China species); Uhmann 1958e:347 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:939 (China species); Würmli 1978:219 (synonymy):Staines & Staines 1997:23 (types); Hua 2002:294 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:65, 388 (catalog).


Pleurispa Weise 1901 Pleurispa Weise 1901:230. Type species: Pleurispa misella Weise 1901, by monotypy. Gestro

1905b:557 (catalog); Weise 1905f:319 (key), 1910d:503 (faunal list), 1911a:59 (catalog), 1911b:90 (description); Uhmann 1931i:850 (museum list), 1940g:122 (claws), 1954h:184 (faunal list), 1958e:260 (catalog); Maulik 1939:147 (noted); Würmli 1975a:70 (genera); Medler 1980:268 (faunal list); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list); Chaboo 2007:179 (noted). Peronycha Weise 1909:112. Type species: Hispa subinermis Fairmaire, by monotypy. Weise 1910d:445, 503 (faunal list), 1911a:63 (catalog), 1911b:95 (redescription); Uhmann 1931i:850 (museum list), 1940g:122 (claws), 1958e:278 (catalog), 1960e:260 (faunal list); Maulik 1939:147 (noted).

Pleurispa humilis Gestro 1909b Pleurispa humilis Gestro 1909b:297 (type: Madagascar; dell’Andry, Ambovombe, MCSN).

Weise 1910d:503 (faunal list), 1911a:59 (catalog), 1911b:90 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:874 (noted), 1958e:260 (catalog).

Distribution: Madagascar. Food plant: Unknown. Pleurispa misella Weise 1901 Pleurispa misella Weise 1901:231 (type: British East Africa, Mombas, ZMHB). Gestro

1905b:557 (catalog); Weise 1911a:59 (catalog), 1911b:90 (catalog); Uhmann 1928g:71 (noted), 1931i:850 (noted), 1958e:261 (catalog).

Pleurispa salamensis Uhmann 1928g:70 (type: Daressalam, ZHMB). Uhmann 1931i:850 (synonymy), 1945-1948:188 (types); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: British East Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Pleurispa subinermis (Fairmaire 1902) Hispa subinermis Fairmaire 1902:271 (type: Madagascar, Mudivalo, MNHN?). Pleurispa subinermis (Fairmaire). Weise 1904c:457 (transfer); Gestro 1909b:296 (Madagascar

species). Peronycha subinermis (Fairmaire). Weise 1909:112 (transfer), 1910d:445, 503 (faunal list),

1911a:63 (catalog), 1911b:95 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:850 (museum list), 1954i:55 (distribution), 1958e:278 (catalog), 1960b:64 (faunal list), 1960e:260 (faunal list), 1964c:170 (faunal list).



Pleurispa weisei Gestro 1906b Pleurispa weisei Gestro 1906b:487 (type: British East Africa, MCSN). Gestro 1905b:557

(catalog); Weise 1911a:59 (catalog), 1911b:90 (catalog); Pic 1924c:29 (comparative note); Uhmann 1954h:198 (West Africa species), 1958e:261 (catalog); Medler 1980:268 (faunal list).

Distribution: Togo. Food plant: Unknown.

Polyconia Weise 1905f Polyconia Weise 1905f:318. Type species: Hispella spincornis Kraatz 1895, by monotypy.

Gestro 1905b:556 (catalog), 1909a:54 (noted); Weise 1911a:61 (catalog), 1911b:92 (redescription); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:853 (museum list), 1940g:122 (claws), 1943d:202 (sculpture), 1949a:5 (key), 1954f:31 (faunal list), 1954h:184 (key), 1958e:267 (catalog), 1961a:69 (faunal list), 1964a:469 (catalog); Porta 1934:372 (Italy species); Maulik 1939:149 (noted); Würmli 1975a:69 (genera); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); Jolivet 1989b:312 (host plants); Jolivet & Hawkeswood 1995:156 (host plants); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list); Warchalowski 2003:556 (Europe species); Santiago-Blay 2004:75 (host plants); Chaboo 2007:179 (noted); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:388 (catalog).

Polygonia Weise (sic). Nayar et al. 1976:353 (lapsus calami, noted). Polyconia caroli (Leprieur 1883) Hispa caroli Leprieur 1883:LXXXI (type: Algeria, depository unknown). Weise 1911a:61 (as

synonym of Hispa atra), 1911b:93 (as synonym of Hispa atra). Polyconia caroli (Leprieur). Uhmann 1936a:443 (transfer), 1943d:207 (sculpture), 1949a:6

(key), 1958e:267 (catalog), 1964a:469 (catalog); Aliquo & Romano 1976:33 (noted); Alegre & Petitpierre 1984:329 (genetics), 1990:82 (genetics); Petitpierre et al. 1988:179 (chromosomes); Warchalowski 2003:556 (Europe species); Petitpierre 2009:63 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:388 (catalog); Julio et al. 2010:30 (noted). Distribution: Algeria, Italy, Spain. Food plant: Unknown.

Polyconia fragilis Uhmann 1954f Polyconia fragilis Uhmann 1954f:31 (type: Congo, Parc National de l’Upemba, MRAC).

Uhmann 1958e:267 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:373 (types); Würmli 1976e:367 (distribution); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list).



Polyconia spinicornis (Kraatz 1895) Hispella spinicornis Kraatz 1895:199 (type: Niger-Benue, DEI). Weise 1897:146 (noted);

Gaedike & Döbler 1971:389 (types). Hispa spinicornis (Kraatz). Donckier 1899:611 (catalog). Polyconia spinicornis (Kraatz). Gestro 1905b:556 (catalog), 1909a:54 (distribution), 1919:344

(host plant); Weise 1905f:318 (transfer), 1911a:61 (catalog), 1911b:92 (catalog); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:853 (museum list), 1934b:391 (comparative note), 1936a:443 (faunal list), 1937g:373 (noted), 1943d:204 (sculpture), 1949a:6 (key), 1954h:198 (West Africa species), 1955g:457 (museum list), 1956f:340 (catalog), 1956g:79 (faunal list), 1957f:305 (museum list), 1958e:267 (catalog), 1958f:489 (distribution), 1961a:69 (noted), 1963e:252 (museum list), 1964a:469 (catalog), 1969:298 (faunal list); Porta 1934:372 (Italy species); Risbec 1950a:238 (host plant), 1950b:103 (biology); Grandi 1951:841 (noted); Müller 1953:594 (Italy species); Descamps 1956:752 (host plant); Grist & Lever 1969:227 (noted); Aliquo & Romano 1976:33 (noted).

Polyconia consobrina Péringuey 1908:341 (type: South Africa, Transvaal, Shilouvane; Southern Rhodesia, Sebawe, SAMC). Weise 1911a:60 (catalog), 1911b:92 (catalog); Uhmann 1934b:391 (synonymy), 1937g:373 (synonymy).

Pseudispella consobrina (Péringuey). Gestro 1911b:33 (noted). Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Italy, Kenya, Mozambique, Niger, Rhodesia, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Uganda. Food plant: Zea mays L. (Poaceae) (Risbec 1950a).

Pseudispella Kraatz 1895 Hispa (Pseudispella) Kraatz 1895:198. Type species: Hispa sulcicollis Gyllenhal 1817,

designated by Weise 1905f. Gestro 1897b:80 (noted). Pseudhispella Kraatz. Weise 1897:145 (key, unjustified emendation), 1905f:318 (key), 1911a:

60 (catalog), 1911b:92 (redescription); Péringuey 1908:341 (South Africa species). Pseudispella Kraatz. Gestro 1905b:556 (catalog), 1914:280 (faunal list); Uhmann 1931i:853 (museum list), 1937g:373 (key), 1940g:122 (claws), 1942a:11 (faunal list), 1943d:202 (sculpture), 1954f:28 (faunal list), 1954h:197 (West Africa species), 1958e:265 (catalog), 1961a:65 (faunal list); Maulik 1939:147 (noted); Würmli 1975a:69 (genera); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list).

Decispella Uhmann 1936d:409 (nomen nudum). Uhmann 1942a:32 (faunal list). Decispella Uhmann 1940:143. Type species: Decispella monochiri Uhmann, by monotypy.

Staines 1997b:415 (noted).

Pseudispella areolata Uhmann 1928g Pseudhispella areolata Uhmann 1928g:91 (type: Kenya, DEI). Gaedike & Döbler 1971:365

(types); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list). Pseudispella areolata Uhmann. Uhmann 1931i:854 (noted), 1936d:410 (museum list),

1937g:373 (key), 1938d:424 (distribution), 1942a:12 (faunal list), 1949f:52 (museum


list), 1953b:20 (distribution), 1954f:29 (faunal list), 1955g:457 (museum list), 1956f:339 (catalog), 1958e:265 (catalog), 1963e:252 (museum list).

Distribution: Congo, Kenya, Tanzania. Food plant: Unknown.

Pseudispella crassicornis (Weise 1901) Hispellinus crassicornis Weise 1901:229 (type: British East Africa, Mombas, ZMHB). Pseudhispella crassicornis (Weise). Weise 1911a:60 (catalog), 1911b:92 (catalog); Uhmann

1928g:72 (faunal list), 1931c:2 (museum list). Pseudispella crassicornis (Weise). Gestro 1914:280 (faunal list); Uhmann 1931i:853 (noted),

1936d:410 (noted), 1937g:373 (key), 1943d:206 (sculpture), 1953b:20 (distribution), 1958e:266 (catalog), 1961a:68 (noted), 1963d:473 (museum list), 1963e:252 (museum list), 1964a:468 (catalog), 1969:298 (faunal list).

Distribution: Congo, Kenya, Senegal, British East Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Pseudispella discernenda (Uhmann 1949f) Decispella discernenda Uhmann 1949f:43 (type: East Africa, Mt. Elgon, ZSMC). Uhmann

1954h:185 (faunal list), 1955c:242 (noted), 1956h:5 (museum list), 1958e:260 (catalog), 1969:298 (faunal list); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Guinea, Rwanda, Senegal, Zimbabwe. Food plant: Unknown.

Pseudispella fistulosa Uhmann 1954f Pseudispella fistulosa Uhmann 1954f:29 (type: Congo, Parc National de l’Upemba, MRAC).

Uhmann 1958e:266 (catalog); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:372 (types); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Congo.

Food plant: Unknown. Pseudispella militaris (Weise 1901) Hispellinus militaris Weise 1901:230 (type: British East Africa, Mombas, ZMHB). Pseudhispella militaris (Weise). Weise 1910c:244 (faunal list), 1911a:61 (catalog), 1911b:92

(catalog); Uhmann 1928g:72 (faunal list), 1931c:3 (museum list), 1931i:853 (noted), 1934b:391 (museum list).

Pseudispella militaris (Weise). Gestro 1914:280 (faunal list); Uhmann 1937g:372 (museum list), 1942a:12 (faunal list), 1943d:206 (sculpture), 1953b:20 (distribution), 1954f:30 (faunal list), 1954h:197 (West Africa species), 1958e:266 (catalog), 1961a:65 (noted), 1963d:473 (museum list), 1964a:468 (catalog).

Pseudhispella crampeli Achard 1917:66 (type: Congo, Fort Crampel, NMPC). Uhmann 1931i: 854 (noted), 1937g:373 (synonymy), 1943d:203 (sculpture).

Pseudhispella spuria (Péringuey). Uhmann 1931g:160 (misidentification), 1943:203 (correction). Distribution: Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Rhodesia, Rwanda, Uganda. Food plant: Unknown.


Pseudispella monochiri (Uhmann 1936d) Decispella monochiri Uhmann 1936d:410 (type: Rwanda, Gabiru, MRAC). Uhmann 1938c:114

(museum list), 1940e:143 (type), 1942a:32 (faunal list), 1943d:206 (sculpture), 1947a:134 (type), 1949f:43 (museum list), 1957f:305 (museum list), 1958e:260 (catalog), 1963e:252 (museum list); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list).

Distribution: Angola, Rwanda, Uganda. Food plant: Unknown. Pseudispella petitii (Guérin-Méneville 1841) Hispa petitii Guérin-Méneville 1841:9 (type: Senegal, MHN?). Hispa petiti Guérin-Méneville. Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Donckier 1899:609

(catalog); Uhmann 1966d:276 (noted). Pseudispella petiti (Guérin-Méneville). Kraatz 1895:199 (transfer); Gestro 1905b:556 (catalog);

Uhmann 1936d:410 (museum list), 1937g:373 (noted), 1942a:12 (faunal list), 1955c:246 (redescription), 1955i:347 (noted), 1958e:266 (catalog), 1961a:65 (noted), 1964a:468 (catalog).

Pseudispella petitii (Guérin-Méneville). Demaux 1963b:34 (noted). Pseudhispella petiti (Guérin-Méneville). Weise 1897:145 (noted), 1905f:318 (noted), 1911a:61

(catalog), 1911b:92 (catalog); Uhmann 1936a:443 (faunal list), 1955c:246 (noted), 1967c:257 (faunal list); Gomes Alves 1949:115 (distribution).

Hispa (Hispella) incerta Chapuis 1877:50 (type: Afric. Occid.?, MNHN). Kraatz 1895:199 (synonymy); Weise 1897:143 (noted); Demaux 1963b:34 (synonymy).

Distribution: Guinea Bissau, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo. Food plant: Unknown.

Pseudispella radiata Uhmann 1955g Pseudispella radiata Uhmann 1955g:458 (type: German East Africa, Ufipa-Plateau, ZSMC).


Distribution: German East Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Pseudispella rechenbergi Uhmann 1928g Pseudhispella rechenbergi Uhmann 1928g:71 (type: British East Africa, Fernpatrouille, ZMHB). Gaedike & Döbler 1971:386 (types); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list). Pseudispella rechenbergi Uhmann. Uhmann 1931i:854 (noted), 1937g:373 (key), 1958e:266 (catalog). Distribution: British East Africa. Food plant: Unknown. Pseudispella spuria (Péringuey 1898) Hispella spuria Péringuey 1898:118 (type: South Africa, Natal, Malvern; Transvaal,

Potchefstroom; DEI). Gaedike & Döbler 1971:390 (types). Hispa spuria (Péringuey). Donckier 1899:611 (catalog).


Pseudhispella spuria (Péringuey). Weise 1901:239 (transfer), 1910c:244 (comparative note), 1911a:61 (catalog), 1911b:92 (catalog); Gomes Alves 1951:183 (distribution).

Pseudispella spuria (Péringuey). Gestro 1905b:556 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:854 (noted), 1936a:443 (noted), 1937g:372 (noted), 1943d:206 (sculpture), 1955g:457 (museum list), 1956f:336 (museum list), 1957e:337 (faunal list), 1958e:267 (catalog), 1964a:468 (catalog). Distribution: Mozambique, South Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Pseudispella strigella Uhmann 1961a Pseudispella strigella Uhmann 1960:304 (nomen nudum). Pseudispella strigella Uhmann 1961a:67 (type: Congo, Parc Garamba, MRAC). Uhmann

1960f:304 (noted), 1964a:468 (catalog); Staines 1997b:418 (Uhmann species list). Distribution: Congo. Food plant: Unknown.

Pseudispella subspinosa (Guérin-Méneville 1841) Hispa subspinosa Guérin-Méneville 1841:11 (type: Senegal, MNHN?). Gemminger & Harold

1876:3618 (catalog); Donckier 1899:612 (catalog); Uhmann 1966d:277 (noted). Pseudhispella subspinosa (Guérin-Méneville). Weise 1897:145 (transfer), 1911a:61 (catalog),

1911b:92 (catalog); Uhmann 1931i:854 (noted). Pseudispella subspinosa (Guérin-Méneville). Gestro 1905b:556 (catalog); Uhmann 1954h:197

(West Africa species), 1958e:267 (catalog), 1964a:469 (catalog). Phidodonta subspinosa (Guérin-Méneville). Uhmann 1961a:71 (noted). Distribution: Senegal. Food plant: Unknown.

Pseudispella sulcicollis (Gyllenhal 1817) Hispa sulcicollis Gyllenhal 1817:5 (type: Guinea, UZIC?). Schönherr 1817:3 (catalog);

GuérinMéneville 1841:9 (comparative note); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Donckier 1899:611 (catalog).

Hispa (Hispella) sulcicollis Gyllenhal. Chapuis 1877:50 (noted). Hispa (Pseudispella) sulcicollis (Gyllenhal). Kraatz 1895:198 (transfer). Pseudispella sulcicollis (Gyllenhal). Gestro 1905b:556 (catalog); Uhmann 1954h:197 (West

Africa species), 1958e:267 (catalog). Pseudhispella sulcicollis (Gyllenhal). Weise 1897:143 (transfer), 1905f:318 (type species),

1911a:61 (catalog), 1911b:92 (catalog); Uhmann 1931c:3 (museum list), 1931i:853 (noted), 1936c:443 (noted), 1937g:373 (key).

Distribution: Guinea, Togo. Food plant: Unknown.


Pseudispella strigella Uhmann 1961 Pseudispella strigella Uhmann 1961:67 (type: Belgian Congo, Parc National de la Garamba,

MRAC). Gaedike & Döbler 1971:390 (types). Distribution: Congo. Food plant: Unknown.

Rhadinosa Weise 1905f Rhadinosa Weise 1905f:318. Type species: Hispa nigrocyanea Motschulsky 1861, by Maulik

1919. Weise 1911a:62 (catalog), 1911b:94 (redescription); Maulik 1915:376 (museum list), 1919:166 (India species), 1939:147 (noted); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Chûjô 1933:321 (Taiwan species); Liu 1936:250 (China species); Wu 1937:914 (faunal list); Gressitt 1938:325 (faunal list), 1939a:170 (distribution), 1939b:200 (distribution), 1950:101 (China species), 1957b:314 (South Pacific species); Uhmann 1940g:122 (claws), 1943d:204 (sculpture), 1958e:276 (catalog), 1964a:470 (catalog); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:504 (types); Chûjô & Kimoto 1961:195 (Japan species); Chen et al. 1962:121 (faunal list); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:917 (China species); Kimoto 1966:639 (Japan species), 1987:30 (Japan species), 1999:120 (southeast Asia species), 2005:106 (faunal list); Würmli 1975a:66 (genera); Nayar et al. 1976:353 (noted); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); Anand 1984:11 (noted), 1989:9 (India species); An et al. 1985:2 (Korea species); Chen et al. 1986:352 (China species); Jolivet 1989b:312 (host plants); Kimoto & Takizawa 1994:344 (Japan species); Jolivet & Hawkeswood 1995:156 (host plants); Anand 1997:5 (morphology); Jäch 1998:37 (noted); Basu 1999:176 (distribution); Mohamedsaid 2004:184 (Malaysian species); Santiago-Blay 2004:77 (host plants); Medvedev & SprecherUebersax 2005:334 (Nepal species); Chaboo 2007:179 (noted); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:388 (catalog).

Rhadinose Weise. T’an 1993:382 (faunal list). Rhadinosa abnormis Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a Rhadinosa abnormis Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:917 (type: South China, Kwangtung, ICRI).

Medvedev 1983:148 (distribution); Hua 2002:294 (faunal list) Distribution: China (Kwangtung). Vietnam.


Rhadinosa fleutiauxi (Baly 1889) Hispa fleutiauxi Baly 1889:491 (type: Vietnam, Pnomh-Penh, MNHN). Donckier 1899:605

(catalog); Allard 1904:161 (faunal list); Staines & Staines 1999:526 (Baly species list). Hispella (Pseudhispella) fleutiauxi (Baly). Gestro 1897:81 (noted). Pseudhispella fleutiauxi (Baly). Weise 1897:146 (noted). Rhadinosa fleutiauxi (Baly). Weise 1905f:318 (transfer), 1911a:62 (catalog), 1911b:94 (catalog);

Uhmann 1931f:225 (museum list), 1938d:428 (distribution), 1939a:9 (faunal list), 1940h:126 (faunal list), 1954n:515 (distribution), 1958e:276 (catalog), 1964a:470 (catalog); Gressitt 1938:325 (distribution), 1939a:171 (distribution), 1939b:200 (distribution), 1950:102 (China species); Kalshoven 1957:11 (host plant); Chen et al.


1962:121 (faunal list); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:918 (China species); Würmli 1975b:371 (noted); Chen et al. 1986:616 (China species); Kimoto 1999:120 (southeast Asia species); Hua 2002:294 (faunal list); T’an 2002:460 (faunal list); Mohamedsaid 2004:184 (Malaysian species), 2009:99 (distribution); Santiago-Blay 2004:77 (host plants); Umemura et al. 2005:35 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:388 (catalog). Distribution: China (Fukien, Hainan, Hupeh, Hunan, Kiangsi, Kwangsi, Kwangtung), Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam. Food plants: Wild grasses (Gressitt 1950); Centotheca sp. (Hua 2002) (Poaceae).

Rhadinosa girija Maulik 1915 Rhadinosa girija Maulik 1915:377 (type: Nepal, Terai, Chutri Gouri, NZSI?). Maulik 1919:167

(India species); Uhmann 1958e:276 (catalog); Anand 1997:6 (morphology); SprecherUebersax 1997:161 (faunal list); Basu 1999:177 (distribution); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:347 (faunal list); Hartmann & Medvedev 2003:180 (faunal list); Kimoto 2005:106 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:388 (catalog); SprecherUebersax 2011:492 (faunal list). Distribution: Nepal. Food plant: Unknown.

Rhadinosa horvathi (Gestro 1907) Monochirus horvathi Gestro 1907:77 (type: Indonesia, Java, HNHM). Spaeth 1933b:274 (noted). Rhadinosa horvathi (Gestro). Weise 1911a:60 (catalog), 1911b:91 (catalog); Uhmann 1958e:276

(catalog). Distribution: Indonesia (Java). Food plant: Unknown.

Rhadinosa impressa Pic 1926a Rhadinosa impressa Pic 1926a:10 (type: Vietnam, Tonkin, Lac Tho, MNHN). Uhmann

1958e:276 (catalog), 1964a:470 (catalog); Descarpentries & Villiers 1959b:504 (types); Kimoto 1999:122 (southeast Asia species).

Distribution: Vietnam. Food plant: Unknown.

Rhadinosa laghua Maulik 1915 Rhadinosa laghua Maulik 1915:376 (type: India, Calcutta; Assam, Mangaldai; Siliguri; Basanti,

NZSI?). Maulik 1919:166 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:276 (catalog); Suzuki 1983a:94 (noted); Gruev 1985:43 (faunal list); Mann & Crowson 1983b:2 (noted), 1985a:79 (male genitalia), 1996:301 (internal sac); Takizawa 1985a:2 (faunal list); Pajni et al. 1987:34 (internal reproductive system); Mann 1988:125 (male genitalia); Anand 1997:6 (morphology); Basu 1999:176 (distribution); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:347 (faunal list); Kimoto 2001:70 (faunal list), 2005:106 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:388 (catalog); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:492 (faunal list). Distribution: India (Assam, Tripura, West Bengal), Myanmar, Nepal. Food plant: Unknown.


Rhadinosa lebongensis Maulik 1919 Rhadinosa lebongensis Maulik 1919:168 (type: India, United Provinces, Ranikhet; Sikkim,

Lebong; Assam, Shillong, Manipur, BMNH). Uhmann 1938f:227 (distribution), 1943d:205 (sculpture), 1958e:276 (catalog), 1963b:151 (museum list); Gressitt 1939a:171 (distribution), 1950:102 (China species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963:918 (China species); Grist & Lever 1969:226 (noted); Würmli 1975b:371 (faunal list); Pathak & Pawar 1983:87 (noted); Takizawa 1985a:3 (faunal list), 1988:11 (faunal list), 1989:327 (faunal list); Anand 1989:9 (India species); Gruev 1990a:65 (faunal list); Basu 1999:177 (distribution); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:347 (faunal list); Kimoto 2001:70 (faunal list), 2005:106 (faunal list); Hua 2002:294 (faunal list); Hartmann & Medvedev 2003:180 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:77 (host plants); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:388 (catalog); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:492 (faunal list).

Rhadinosa labongensis Maulik [sic]. Anand 1997:6 (morphology). Distribution: Bhutan, China (Fukien, Kiangsi, Yunnan), India (Manipur, Meghalaya, Ranikhet, Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal), Nepal. Food plants: Oryza sativa L., Saccharum officinarum L. (Poaceae) (Anand 1989).

Rhadinosa machetes (Gestro 1898b) Pseudispella machetes Gestro 1898b:260 (type: India orientalis, HNHM). Gestro 1901b:439

(noted). Rhadinosa machetes (Gestro). Gestro 1907:76 (transfer); Weise 1911a:62 (catalog), 1911b:94

(catalog); Maulik 1919:166 (India species); Uhmann 1958e:276 (catalog); Anand 1997:6 (morphology).

Distribution: India (Assam, Bengal), Myanmar. Food plant: Unknown.

Rhadinosa nigrocyanea (Motschulsky 1861) Hispa nigrocyanea Motschulsky 1861:237 (type: Amur, depository unknown). Motschulsky

1860b:11 (catalog), 1869:80 (types); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Gorham 1885:286 (faunal list); Schönfeldt 1887:156 (Japan species); Fairmaire 1889:83 (redescription); Weise 1890:486 (host plant); Kimoto & Takizawa 1994:344 (Japan species).

Monochirus nigrocyanea (Motschulsky). Donckier 1899:598 (catalog); Weise 1901:238 (noted). Pseudispella nigrocyanea (Motschulsky). Weise 1897:146 (transfer), 1901:238 (noted). Rhadinosa nigrocyanea (Motschulsky). Weise 1905f:318 (transfer), 1911a:62 (catalog),

1911b:94 (catalog); Heurn 1925:61 (host plant); Winkler 1929:1353 (catalog); Yuasa 1932:588 (faunal list); Chûjô 1933:321 (Taiwan species), 1940:121 (faunal list), 1941:233 (distribution), 1956b:24 (faunal list); Shirôzu 1934:53 (faunal list); Liu 1936:253 (China species); Wu 1937:914 (faunal list); Esaki et al. 1939:298 (faunal list); Gressitt 1939a:171 (distribution), 1939c:137 (distribution), 1950:103 (China species); Uhmann 1949a:6 (key), 1954a:206 (noted), 1958e:276 (catalog), 1963c:578 (noted), 1964a:470 (catalog); Yuasa 1950:1208 (faunal list); L. Medvedev 1957:295 (Russian species); Kalshoven 1957:11 (host plant); Chûjô & Kimoto 1961:195 (Japan species);


Demaux 1963b:35 (noted); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:919 (China species); Nakane et al. 1963:347 (faunal list); Kimoto 1966:639 (Japan species), 1976:173 (faunal list), 1987:30 (Japanese species); 1989:484 (faunal list); Ohno 1967a:6 (faunal list), 1967c:7 (faunal list), 1968b:23 (faunal list); Kimoto & Hiura 1971:25 (museum list); Suzuki 1974:7 (ovariole), 1978:13 (noted), 1989:63 (noted); Suzuki & Hara 1975:92 (ovariole number), 1976:23 (egg); An et al. 1985:3 (Korea species); T’an 1993:382 (faunal list); Hua 2002:294 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:77 (host plants); Byun 2006:89 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:388 (catalog).

Hispella nigrocyanea (Motschulsky). Reitter 1927:34 (Palearctic species). Rhadinosa reticulata Uhmann 1940h:126 (not Baly) (type: China, Fukien, depository unknown).

Uhmann 1955:206 (synonymy). Hispa incerta Chapuis. Demaux 1963b:34 (misidentification).

Distribution: China (Anhwei, Chekiang, Fukien, Hainan, Kiangsi, Kiangsu, Kwangtung, Manchuria, Sinkiang, Yunnan), Japan, Korea, Russia (Siberia). Food plants: Miscanthus spp. (Ohno 1954); Digitaria glabra Beauv. (Motschulsky 1861); Oryza sativa L. (An et al. 1985); Arundinella sp. (Hua 2002) (Poaceae).

Rhadinosa parvula (Motschulsky 1861) Hispa parvula Motschulsky 1861:238 (type: Indonesia, Batavia, depository unknown).

Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Donckier 1899:609 (catalog); Weise 1901:239 (noted).

Pseudhispella parvula (Motschulsky). Weise 1897:146 (noted). Pseudispella parvula (Motschulsky). Gestro 1899c:325 (distribution). Rhadinosa parvula (Motschulsky). Weise 1905f:318 (transfer), 1911a:62 (catalog), 1911b:94

(catalog); Uhmann 1928e:374 (faunal list), 1929a:149 (faunal list), 1929b:2 (faunal list), 1931e:3 (faunal list), 1935g:148 (faunal list), 1943d:204 (sculpture), 1958e:277 (catalog); Maulik 1937:153 (host plant); Kalshoven 1951:761 (host plant), 1957:11 (host plant); Chûjô 1964:312 (faunal list); Grist & Lever 1969:226 (biology); Würmli 1975b:371 (noted); Santiago-Blay 2004:77 (host plants); Kimoto 2005:106 (faunal list).

Hispa (Rhadinosa) parvula (Motschulsky). Dammerman 1919:88 (host plant), 1929:93 (host plant).

Hispa nigritula Boheman 1858:203 (type: Indonesia, Java, depository unknown). Gemminger & Harold 1876:3618 (catalog); Weise 1897:144 (synonymy).

Hispa (Pseudispella) nigritula Boheman. Gestro 1897b:80 (distribution), 1897c:176 (distribution). Distribution: Bhutan, China, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra), Thailand. Food plants: Oryza sativa L., Saccharum officinarum L., Zea mays L. (Dammerman 1918); grasses (Kalshoven 1951) (Poaceae).

Rhadinosa reticulata (Baly 1888a) Hispa reticulata Baly 1888a:665 (type: Burma, Teinzo, MCSN). Gestro 1890:248

(distribution); Donckier 1899:610 (catalog); Staines & Staines 1999:526 (Baly species list).

Pseudhispella reticulata (Baly). Weise 1897:146 (transfer).


Rhadinosa reticulata (Baly). Weise 1905f:318 (transfer), 1911a:62 (catalog), 1911b:94 (catalog); Maulik 1919:164 (India species); Gressitt 1938:325 (distribution), 1939a:172 (distribution), 1939b:201 (distribution), 1950:104 (China species); Uhmann 1958e:277 (catalog), 1963b:477 (museum list); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:920 (China species); Mann & Crowson 1983b:2 (noted); Pajni et al. 1987:34 (internal reproductive system); L. Medvedev 1990:45 (faunal list), 2000b:24 (faunal list); Anand 1997:6 (morphology); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:347 (faunal list); Kimoto 2005:106 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:388 (catalog); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:492 (faunal list).

Distribution: China (Fukien, Hainan), Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand. Food plant: Unknown.

Rhadinosa yunnanica Chen & Sun 1962 Rhadinosa yunnanica Chen & Sun 1962:129 (type: China, Yunnan, Ping-ban, IZAS). Gressitt &

Kimoto 1963b:932 (noted); Yang & Sun 1991:60 (types); Hua 2002:294 (faunal list); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:388 (catalog). Distribution: China (Yunnan). Food plant: Unknown.

Rhodtrispa Chen & T’an 1964 Dactylispa (Rhoptrispa) Chen & T’an 1961:414. Type species: Dactylispa luhi Uhmann, by

original designation. Gressitt & Kimoto 1965:804 (noted). Rhodtrispa Chen & T’an 1964:414. Type species: Hispa dilaticornis Duvivier 1891, by

monotypy. Chen et al. 1986:347 (China species); Kimoto 1999:125 (southeast Asia species); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:388 (catalog).

Rhoptrispa Chen & T’an (sic). Kimoto & Chu 1996:132 (lapsus calami, faunal list); Kimoto 2005:106 (faunal list).

Rhodtrispa dilaticornis (Duvivier 1891) Hispa dilaticornis Duvivier 1891:xlviii (type: India, Koubir, ISNB). Duvivier 1892:447 (faunal

list); Donckier 1899:604 (catalog). Dactylispa dilaticornis (Duvivier). Gestro 1907:71 (distribution); Weise 1911a:65 (catalog),

1911b:98 (catalog); Maulik 1919:178 (India species), 1937:154 (host plants); Khan & Kadapa 1957:358 (biology); Uhmann 1958e:290 (catalog); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:97 (Bangladesh species); Kimoto 1972:48 (faunal list); Würmli 1975b:377 (noted), 1976c:303 (distribution), 1979:317 (faunal list); Pathak & Pawar 1983:87 (noted); Takizawa 1985a:3 (faunal list); Gruev 1988:166 (faunal list); Basu 1999:178 (distribution); Medvedev & Sprecher-Uebersax 1999a:344 (faunal list); Hartmann & Medvedev 2003:179 (faunal list); Santiago-Blay 2004:60 (host plants).

Rhodtrispa dilaticornis (Duvivier). Chen et al. 1986:349 (China species); Kimoto 1999:125 (southeast Asia species); Hua 2002:294 (faunal list); Borowiec & Świętojańska 2007:286 (distribution); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:388 (catalog); Bezdĕk & Batelka 2011:250 (faunal list); Sprecher-Uebersax 2011:492 (faunal list).

Dicladispa dilaticornis (Duvivier). Anand 1997:9, 10 (morphology).


Rhoptrispa dilaticornis (Duvivier). Kimoto & Chu 1996:132 (faunal list); Kimoto 2005:106 (faunal list).

Dactylispa arisana Chûjô 1933:324 (type: Taiwan, TARI). Gressitt 1950:122 (China species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:923 (China species); Würmli 1976:303 (synonymy); Kimoto 1986:61 (faunal list), 1991:25 (faunal list).

Rhodtrispa arisana (Chûjô). Chen et al. 1986:347 (China species). Dactylispa assamensis Weise 1904:451 (type: India, Assam, ZMHB). Maulik 1919:178 (India

species); Abdullah & Qureshi 1969:97 (Bangladesh species); Würmli 1976:303 (synonymy).

Dicladispa assamensis (Weise). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa clavata Gestro 1904:175 (not Weise 1901) (type: Ethiopia, MCSN). Dactylispa clavicornis Chen & T’an 1964:415 (type: China, Yunnan, IZAS). Würmli 1976:303

(synonymy); Yang & Sun 1991:59 (types). Rhoptrispa clavicornis (Chen & Tan). Chen et al. 1986:348 (China species); Borowiec &

Sekerka 2010:388 (catalog). Dactylispa luhi Uhmann 1951e:19 (type: China, Peking, W. Hills, USNM). Gressitt 1950:121

(China species); Kalshoven 1957:12 (host plant); Uhmann 1958e:299 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:929 (China species); Würmli 1976:303 (synonymy); Maddison 1993:264 (host plant); Staines 1997b:415 (Uhmann species list); Staines & Staines 1997:12 (types); Santiago-Blay 2004:61 (host plants).

Dactylispa (Rhoptrispa) luhi Uhmann. Chen & T’an 1964:414 (noted). Dactylispa perpusilla Gestro 1911:28 (type: Ethiopia, MCSN). Würmli 1976c:303 (synonymy) Dactylispa pusilla Weise 1905g:103 (replacement name for Dactylispa clavata Gestro). Lopatin 1963:371 (faunal list); Würmli 1976:303 (synonymy). Dicladispa pusilla (Weise). Anand 1997:9 (morphology). Dactylispa perpusilla Gestro 1911b:28 (type: Uganda, Ghinda, MCSN). Weise 1911a:67 (catalog), 1911b:99 (catalog); Uhmann 1954f:59 (faunal list), 1955h:155 (Africa species),

1958e:306 (catalog); Lopatin 2008:322 (faunal list). Dactylispa clavata Gestro 1905:175 (not Weise). Gestro 1911b:28 (synonymy).

Distribution: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China (Shandong, Yunnan), Eritrea, Ethiopia, India (Assam, Bihar, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal), Laos, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam. Food plants: Panicum sp., dabi grass (Maulik 1919); Arthraxon hispidus (Thunberg) Makino (Gressitt 1950); Oryza sativa L. (Khan & Kadapa 1957) (Poaceae).

Sinispa Uhmann 1940e Sinispa Uhmann 1938f:224 (nomen nudum). Maulik 1939:148 (noted). Sinispa Uhmann 1940e:143. Type species: Sinispa yunnana Uhmann, by monotypy. Uhmann

1940g:122 (claws), 1943d:202 (sculpture), 1958e:267 (catalog); Gressitt 1950:99 (China species); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:915 (China species); Würmli 1975a:69 (genera); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); Chen et al. 1986:363 (China species); Staines


1997b:419 (Uhmann species list); Kimoto 1999:118 (southeast Asia species); Chaboo 2007:179 (noted); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:388 (catalog).

Sinispa tayana (Gressitt 1939a) Rhadinosa tayana Gressitt 1939a:172 (type: China, Taya Island, ICRI). Gressitt 1950:103 (China

species); Uhmann 1943d:206 (sculpture), 1958e:277 (catalog); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:920 (China species); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:388 (catalog). Distribution: China (Hainan Island, Taya Island). Food plant: Unknown.

Sinispa yunnana Uhmann 1940e Sinispa yunnana Uhmann 1938f:224 (nomen nudum). Sinispa yunnana Uhmann 1940e:138 (type: China, Yunnan, DEI). Uhmann 1943a:206 (noted),

1945-1948:188 (type), 1958e:267 (catalog); Gressitt 1950:99 (distribution); Gressitt & Kimoto 1963a:915 (distribution); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:395 (types); Chen et al. 1986:616 (China species); Staines 1997b:419 (Uhmann species list); Kimoto 1999:118 (southeast Asia species); Borowiec & Sekerka 2010:388 (catalog).

Distribution: Cambodia, China (Yunnan), Laos, Thailand, Vietnam. Food plant: Unknown.

Thomispa Würmli 1975c Thomispa Würmli 1975c:33. Type species: Trichispa feae Gestro 1906, by monotypy. Würmli

1975a:65 (genera); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); L. Medvedev 2003:152 (noted); Chaboo 2007:179 (noted); Staines 2011:1 (noted). Thomispa feae (Gestro 1905b) Trichispa feae Gestro 1905b:536 (type: S. Thomé, MCSN). Weise 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:

102 (catalog); Collart 1928:342 (host plant); Uhmann 1954h:198 (West Africa species), 1958e:322 (catalog); Santiago-Blay 2004:80 (host plants); Chaboo 2007:179 (noted).

Thomispa feae (Gestro). Würmli 1975c:33 (transfer); Staines 2011:1 (noted). Distribution: St. Thomé Island. Food plant: Grass (Poaceae) (Collart 1928).

Thoracispa Chapuis 1875 Hispa (Thoracispa) Chapuis 1875:335. Type species: Hispa (Thoracispa) dregei Chapuis, by

monotypy. Chapuis 1877:50 (noted); Weise 1897:145 (key), 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:106 (catalog); Péringuey 1898:130 (faunal list); Gestro1905b:463 (noted), Barber 1951:18 (noted).

Dactylispa (Thoracispa) Chapuis. Gestro 1923:21 (noted). Thoracispa Chapuis. Uhmann 1931i:891 (museum list), 1958e:343 (catalog); Würmli 1975a:73

(genera); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); Jolivet 1989b:313 (host plants); Jolivet & Hawkeswood 1995:156 (host plants).


Thoracispa brunni (Weise 1904b) Hispa (Thoracispa) brunni Weise 1904b:449 (type: Africa mer.; Cap Beil; South Africa, Cap

Albany, ZMHU). Weise 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:106 (catalog). Thoracispa brunni (Weise). Gestro 1905b:552 (catalog), 1923:22 (noted); Uhmann 1931i:891

(museum list), 1956f:343 (catalog), 1958e:343 (catalog). Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Thoracispa dregei (Chapuis 1875) Hispa (Thoracispa) dregei Chapuis 1875:336 (type: Africa, ISNB). Chapuis 1877:50 (noted);

Weise 1897:147 (noted), 1904b:449 (noted), 1911a:74 (catalog), 1911b:106 (catalog); Gestro 1905b:464 (noted).

Hispa dregei Chapuis. Donckier 1899:605 (catalog). Thoracispa dregei (Chapuis). Péringuey 1898:130 (faunal list); Gestro 1905b:552 (catalog);

Uhmann 1931c:10 (noted), 1956f:343 (catalog), 1958e:343 (catalog), 1967a:155 (redescription).


Thoracispa hessei (Uhmann 1934b) Hispa (Thoracispa) hessei Uhmann 1934b:394 (type: South Africa, Hottentot’s Holland Mts.,

SAMC). Uhmann 1945-1948:188 (type); Gaedike & Döbler 1971:375 (types); Staines 1997b:416 (Uhmann species list).

Thoracispa hessei (Uhmann). Uhmann 1956f:343 (catalog), 1958e:343 (catalog). Distribution: South Africa. Food plant: Unknown.

Trichispa Chapuis 1875 Trichispa Chapuis 1875:331. Type species: Hispa sericea Guérin-Méneville 1844, by monotypy.

Gemminger & Harold 1876:3616 (catalog); Donckier 1899:599 (catalog); Alluaud 1900:328 (faunal list); Gestro 1905b:536 (faunal list), 1914:287 (faunal list); Weise 1905f:317 (key), 1910d:503 (faunal list), 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:102 (redescription); Uhmann 1931i:875 (museum list), 1940g:122 (claws), 1942a:29 (faunal list), 1945-1948:183 (sculpture), 1954f:87 (faunal list), 1954h:184 (key), 1958e:322 (catalog), 1960b:91 (faunal list), 1961a:74 (faunal list), 1964a:478 (catalog); Maulik 1939:147 (noted); Würmli 1975a:70 (genera); Nayar et al. 1976:353 (noted); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); Jolivet 1989b:312 (host plants); Jolivet & Hawkeswood 1995:156 (host plants); Chaboo 2007:127 (noted); Staines 2011:1 (noted).

Lesageana L. Medvedev 2003:152. Type species: Lesageana paucispina L. Medvedev, by monotypy. Staines 2011:1 (synonymy).


Trichispa sericea (Guérin-Méneville 1844) Hispa sericea Guérin-Méneville 1844:268 (type: Madagascar, NHMW). Guérin-Méneville

1844a:268 (noted); Fairmaire 1869:258 (redescription); Uhmann 1966d:278 (noted). Trichispa sericea (Guérin-Méneville). Chapuis 1875a:332 (transfer), 1875b:44, plate 129, fig. 5

(illustration), 1880:28 (faunal list); Gemminger & Harold 1876:3616 (catalog); Donckier 1899:599 (catalog); Alluaud 1900:328 (faunal list); Gestro 1904a:172 (faunal list), 1905b:555 (catalog), 1909b:296 (Madagascar species), 1914:287 (faunal list); Weise 1910d:503 (faunal list), 1911a:70 (catalog), 1911b:102 (catalog); Collart 1928:342 (host plant); Frappa 1929:175 (host plant), 1938:33 (noted); Uhmann 1931g:160 (distribution), 1931i:875 (museum list), 1934b:393 (museum list), 1935i:177 (faunal list), 1936d:412 (noted), 1942a:29 (faunal list), 1954f:87 (faunal list), 1954i:55 (distribution), 1954l:1117 (noted), 1956f:340 (catalog), 1957c:91 (pupa), 1957e:338 (faunal list), 1957h:198 (West Africa species), 1958e:322 (catalog), 1958f:490 (distribution), 1960b:91 (noted), 1961a:74 (noted), 1963e:253 (museum list), 1964a:478 (catalog); Bouriquet 1937:119 (pest status); Vayssiere 1946:466 (noted); Paulian 1950:52 (biology); Risbec 1950a:384 (host plants), 1950b:147 (biology); Jolivet 1953:1546 (faunal list); Magnin 1955:113 (biology); Descamps 1956:752 (host plant); Monrós 1959:32 (illustration); Brenière 1966:514 (pest status); Appert 1967:164 (biology); Grist & Lever 1969:226 (biology); Ravelojaona 1970:474 (biology), 1982:9 (biology); Bakker 1971:201 (pest status); Moyal 1988:457 (pest status); Booth et al. 1990:156 (noted); Reckhaus 1990:30 (pest status) ; Barrion & Litsinger 1994:176 (key); Dale 1994:459 (biology); Hibino 1996:266 (noted); Heinrichs et al. 1997:292 (noted) ; Abo & Sy 1998:122 (pest status); Ali et al. 1999:115 (biology); Kimmins et al. 1999:126 (biology); Šutić et al. 1999:65 (vector); Abo et al. 2002:200 (vector); Banwo 2002:110 (pest status); Konaté & Fargette 2003:5 (noted); Banwo et al. 2004:31 (distribution); Heinrichs & Barrion 2004:64 (pest status); Santiago-Blay 2004:80 (host plants); Kouassi et al. 2005:126 (pest status); Woin et al. 2007:213 (biology), 2010:470 (noted); Staines 2011:1 (noted). Lesageana paucispina L. Medvedev 2003:152 (type: Guinea, Dubreka, type destroyed). Staines 2011:1 (synonymy). Distribution: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zaire. Food plants: Oryza sativa L. (Frappa 1929); Chloris virgata Sw., Echinochloa holubii (Stapf.) Stapf., Eragrostis aethiopica Chiov., Eragrostis heteromera Stapf., Digitaria zeyheri (Nees) Hend., Diplachne fusca (L.) Beauv. ex Stapf. (Dale 1994) (Poaceae).


Unguispa Uhmann 1954i Unguispa Uhmann 1954i:46. Type species: Unguispa impar Uhmann 1954, by monotypy.

Uhmann 1958e:278 (catalog); Würmli 1975a:65 (genera); Seeno & Wilcox 1982:165 (catalog); Staines 1997b:419 (Uhmann species list); Chaboo 2007:179 (noted).

Unguispa impar Uhmann 1954i Unguispa impar Uhmann 1954i:46 (type: Madagascar, Forêt d’Ambohitantely, MNHN?).



Fossil Species

Dicladispa beskonakensis Nel 1988 Dicladispa beskonakensis Nel 1988:370 (type: Turkey, Anatoil, Bes-Konak, MNHN).

SantiagoBlay 1994:28 (catalog). Dicladispa muratensis Nel 1988 Dicladispa muratensis Nel 1988:372 (type: France, Sainte-Reine, MNHN). Santiago-Blay

1994:28 (catalog). Hispa sp. Hispa sp. Klebs 1910:238 (Baltic amber:Russia, Poland). Spahr 1981:27 (catalog); SantiagoBlay

1994:28 (catalog).

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