{{Short description|Species of beetle}} {{Speciesbox | image = Lycoidispa_explanata.jpg | image_caption = | image2 = | image2_caption = | genus= Lycoidispa | species = explanata | authority = (Chapuis, 1877)<ref>[https://itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=843998#null Integrated Taxonomic Information System]</ref> | synonyms = *''Odontota explanata'' <small>Chapuis, 1877</small> *''Pentispa explanata'' }} '''''Lycoidispa explanata''''' is a species of beetle of the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico (Oaxaca, Tamaulipas, Veracruz),<ref>[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355382194_Mexican_leaf_beetles_Coleoptera_Megalopodidae_Orsodacnidae_and_Chrysomelidae_new_records_and_checklist Mexican leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae, and Chrysomelidae): new records and checklist]</ref> Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad and Venezuela.

==Description== The head has an aeneous tinge. The vertex is trisulcate and the lateral grooves are deeply impressed, the apex of the clypeus produced into a transverse bifid plate. The antennae are rather more than half the length of the body. The thorax is transverse, subconic, the sides converging from the base to the apex, slightly bisinuate. It is transversely convex, flattened and excavated on the hinder disc, coarsely punctured. There is a broad fulvous bicallose impunctate vitta on either side. The elytra are gradually increasing in width towards the apex, the sides finely serrulate, the apical margin dilated, more strongly serrate, broadly subquadrate emarginate at the sutural angle. Each elytron has eight regular rows of punctures, the second interspace strongly costate.<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 recorded food plants are ''Pithecoctenium'' species.<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>

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Category:Beetles described in 1877 Category:Lycoidispa

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