Tiquicia nishida (Mengual & Thompson)  

The subgenus Costarica has the face greatly produced anteriorly, with no tubercle but distinctly concave beneath antenna creating an appearance of a tubercle; oral opening about 5 times as long as wide, with oral apex greatly extended beyond level of antennal base; antennal pits distinctly separated; plumula absent; subscutellar fringe absent; wing microtrichose, without apical dark macula; metasternum bare; abdomen narrowly petiolate or elongate (Mengual et al. 2009).

Costarica is readily distinguished from all other Allograpta groups by the distinctive facial shape and by the dense thick appressed pile on 1st and 2nd terga in the males.

Allograpta nishida has 3rd & 4th terga with basal arcuate yellow fasciae; female 2nd tergum black with submedial fasciate yellow macula; pro- and mesofemora extensively black; and katepisternum and postalar callus brownish-black.