I have Borowiec's monographs on Afrotropical Cassidinae, his recent works on Cassidinae of Madagascar, and Grobbelaar, Scholler and Biondi's various publications which are available on ResearchGate, but would like to know if there's any other readily available material on this subject, including Bruchinae, Orsodacnidae and Megalopodidae as well as the other chrysomelid subfamilies?
It is better to search zoo taxa, you may get good information from that.
good luck!
If you can read German, there are some useful keys for various groups of hispines by Uhmann and Würmli.
For example: Uhmann, 1954 (Memoires I.F.A.N.) published a key to both genera and species of "Hispinae" occurring in West Africa (Guinean rainforest area).
Würmli 1976 (Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey) provided a key to genera of Hispinae, both spiky and non-spiky ones.
Unfortunately, the largest hispine genera Dactylispa, Dicladispa and Oncocephala are badly in need of revision and there are no keys.
As for Bruchinae, Sagrinae, Eumolpinae, Megalopodidae, Cryptocephalinae an Chrysomelinae: I am not aware of any keys.
I think Orsodacnidae is not represented in subsaharan Africa (Hemydacne has now been placed in Eumolpinae).
Speaking of Eumolpinae: I find this website very helpful, even though it doesn't provide any keys: http://chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/index.html
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