{{short description|Species of beetle}} {{Speciesbox | genus = Pentispa | species = distincta | authority = (Baly, 1886) | synonyms = *''Uroplata distincta'' <small>Baly, 1885</small> }} '''''Pentispa distincta''''' is a species of leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae.<ref name=itis/><ref name=buglink/> It is found in the United States (Texas), Guatemala and Mexico.

==Description== Adults reach a length of about 4.5-5.2&nbsp;mm.<ref name=buglink/> The vertex and front are deeply sulcate and the clypeus is transverse, produced, its upper edge subangulate. The antennae are nearly half the length of the body, slightly thickened towards the apex. The thorax is transverse, subconic, the sides converging from the base to the apex, obsoletely angulate. The disc is coarsely and closely punctured, with a broad submarginal torulose, impunctate vitta on either side, fulvous. The elytra are subparallel, very slightly increasing in width towards the apex, the latter rounded, broadly subquadrate-emarginate at the suture, the lateral margin finely, the apical one more strongly and some what irregularly, serrulate. Each elytron has eight, at the extreme base with nine, regular rows of punctures. The second, fourth, and sixth interspaces costate, the last less distinctly raised than the two others.<ref>[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Biologia_Centrali-Americana%3B_%28or%2C_Contributions_to_the_knowledge_of_the_fauna_and_flora_of_Mexico_and_Central_America%29_%28IA_biologiacentrali31godmrich%29.pdf Biologia Centrali-Americana: Insecta (Coleoptera) Vol. VI. part 2] {{pd-notice}}</ref>

==Biology== The food plant is unknown, but adults have been collected on ''Eupatorium azureum''.<ref>{{cite web |last= Staines|first= C.L.|date= 2012|title= Hispines of the World: Tribe Chalepini|url= https://naturalhistory.si.edu/sites/default/files/media/file/chalepini2015.pdf|website= |location= |publisher= USDA/APHIS/PPQ Science and Technology and National Natural History Museum.|access-date= August 26, 2025}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=itis> {{Cite web| title=''Pentispa distincta'' Report | url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=719980 | website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System | access-date=2019-09-25 }}</ref>

<ref name=buglink> {{Cite web| title=''Pentispa distincta'' species Information | url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/264389 | website=BugGuide.net | access-date=2019-09-25 }}</ref> }}

==Further reading== {{refbegin}} * {{Cite book | title = A world catalogue of the Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) | date = 1999 | last1 = Borowiec | first1 = Lech | publisher = Biologicae Silesiae | isbn = 978-83-909804-4-7 }} * {{Cite book | title = Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 6: Chrysomeloidea | date = 2013 | editor-last1 = Lobl | editor-first1 = I. | editor-last2 = Smetana | editor-first2 = A. | publisher = Apollo Books | isbn = 978-90-04-26091-7 }} {{refend}}

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