Aspidimorpha (s. str.) deusta (Fabricius, 1775)
Cassida deusta Fabricius, 1775: 89 (ST! in BMNH!, ZMK!); 1781: 109; 178 7: 63; 1792: 297; 1801: 396; Goeze, 1777: 211; Gmelin in Linnaeus, 1787: 1636; Olivier, 1790: 382; 1808: 954 (incl. fig.); Herbst, 1799: 334; Schoenherr, 1817: 218; Boisduval, 1835: 543; Boheman, 1854: 333, 1856: 118, 1862: 289; Zimsen, 1964: 90; Radford, 1981: 173.
Aspidomorpha deusta: Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3648; Masters, 1887: 86; Spaeth, 1903 a: 137; 1914 g: 70; 1915 b: 235; Mjöberg, 1917: 16; Hawkeswood, 1988: 107, 2003: 187; Borowiec, 1990 a: 680; Medvedev, 1995: 20; Kimoto et al., 1995: 103 (incl. photo); Reid, 1998 b: 303; Kimoto, 1998 b: 62; Noramly, 2000: 243-246 (incl. photo); Mohamedsaid, 2000 a: 358, 2000 b: 375, 2004: 191.
Aspidimorpha (Aspidimorpha) deusta: Borowiec, 1992 c: 142 (incl. fig.), 1999 d: 183; Œwiêtojañska, 2001 c: 67 (incl. fig., colour photo).
Aspidimorpha deusta: Borowiec, 1996 b: 7, 2001 e: 497; Mohamedsaid, 2006: 63-72, 2009 d: 438.
Cassida collina Boisduval, 1835: 541 (TE in ?MNHN); Boheman, 1854: 333 (as syn. of deusta).
Aspidomorpha corallina [sic]: Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3648 (in syn. of deusta); Masters, 1887: 86.
Cassida angulifera Blanchard, 1853: 324 (TE in ?); Boheman, 1854: 333 (as syn. of deusta).
Cassida nigrodorsata Boheman, 1856: 119 (LT! in NRS!, PLT! in BMNH!); 1862: 293; Borowiec, 1992 c: 142 (as syn. of deusta).
Aspidomorpha nigrodorsata: Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3650; Masters, 1887: 86.
Aspidomorpha deusta ssp. nigrodorsata: Spaeth, 1914 g: 71.
Sindia schawalleri Medvedev in Medvedev and Zaitsev, 1993: 41 (HT, PT! in SMNS!, incl. fig., larva); Borowiec, 1994 b: 154 (as syn. of deusta); Medvedev, 1995: 20 (as syn. of deusta).
Host plants: Convolvulaceae: Ipomoea pes-caprae (Hawkeswood, 1988; Mohamedsaid, 2006); Ipomoea batatas (Medvedev and Zaitsev, 1993; Reid, 1998 b); Ipomoea carnea (Nakamura and Abbas, 1987, 1989).
Distr.: deusta: nova Hollandia; collina: Nouvelle-Hollande; angulifera: Makassar, côte le l'île Célébes; nigrodorsata: Nova Hollandia ad Port Essington; schawalleri: Philippines, Leyte, Visayas State College of Agriculture N Baybay. Australia: N New South Wales, Queensland, Northern Territory; Indoneisa: Bali, Botrneo, Flores, Java, Sulawesi, Sumatra, West Irian, Wetar Is.; Malaysia: continental and Sarawak and Sabah, Papua New Guinea; Philippines: Leyte; Timor.
figure: habitus in colour (three forms)
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