Bruchus spinosus Fabricius, 1775) Species incertae sedis.

Bruchus spinosus Fabricius, 1775: p. 64 . “Habitat in Jamaica. D. Drury ” [Jamaica]. The Zimsen (1964) catalog of the type material of Fabricius lists no specimens for this species, nor were they located in the Fabricius collections in the ZMUK (Zimsen, 1964) or the ZMUC in 2016.

Bruchus spinosus: Fabricius (1781), p. 74 (brief description); Fabricius (1787), p. 41(brief description); Olivier (1790), p. 197 (brief description); Fabricius (1792), p. 369 (brief description); Fabricius (1801), p. 396 (brief description); Schoenherr (1833), p. 98 (brief description); Schoenherr (1839), p. 130 (brief description); Gemminger & Harold (1873), p. 3231 (catalog); Pic (1913), p. 50 (catalog); Zimsen (1964), p. 191 (mentioned).

Acanthoscelides spinosus: Blackwelder (1946), p. 761 (catalog, comb. nov.); Wilcox (1975), p. 7 (catalog); Johnson & Kingsolver (1981), p. 416 (catalog); Udayagiri & Wadhi (1989), p. 64 (catalog).