Bruchus livens Suffrian, 1870 . Species incertae sedis.

Bruchus livens Suffrian, 1870: p. 154 . “ Cuba ”. Syntype (s) deposited in the Gundlach collection of the MNHC. No specialist has yet had a chance to review these for proper generic placement (Alvarez Marin & Kingsolver, 1997); inspection of non-type specimens in the BMNH from St. Vincent and the Grenadines identified by K.G. Blair support placement in Acanthoscelides .

Bruchus livens: Gemminger & Harold (1873), p. 3225 (catalog); Pic (1913), p. 32 (catalog).

Acanthoscelides livens: Blackwelder (1946), p. 760 (catalog, comb. nov.); Wilcox (1975), p. 6 (catalog); Johnson & Kingsolver (1981), p. 414 (catalog); Udayagiri & Wadhi (1989), p. 50 (catalog); Alvarez Marin & Kingsolver (1997), p. 218 (catalog).