Aspidimorpha (s. str.) furcata (Thunberg, 1789)
Cassida furcata Thunberg, 1789: 87 (LT in Uppsala); Herbst, 1799: 265; Schönherr, 1817: 221 (as syn. of micans); Sekerka, 2008 b: 303 (LT designation).
Aspidomorpha furcata: Weise, 1897: 104; 1901a: 52; 1905 a: 123; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3649; Spaeth, 1913 e: 46; 1914 a: 15; 1914 g: 68, 1926 c: 118; 1938 a: 231; Maulik, 1916: 585; 1919: 333; Chujô, 1934: 151; Gressitt, 1938 a: 189; 1938 b: 384; 1938 c: 578; 1939: 139; 1952: 463 (incl. larva, pupa, fig.); Chen and Zia, 1961: 441; Gressitt and Kimoto, 1963: 950 (incl. fig., egg, larva, pupa); Takizawa, 1978: 602; 1980a: 26 (larva, pupa); 1985: 5; 1987: 526; Kimoto, 1981a: 58; 1986a: 62; 1987: 194; 1989: 271; 1991: 25, 1998: 24, 2001: 70 (incl. photo), 2003: 41 (incl. colour photo), 2005: 106 (incl. photo); Medvedev and Dan, 1982: 95; Medvedev and Eroshkina, 1982: 105, 106; 1988: 124; Lizhong, 1982: 54; 1989: 86; Yu, 1983: 795, 1986: 682, 2002: 466; Zaitsev and Medvedev, 1983: 142 (larva); Borowiec, 1985 a: 27; 1990 a: 682; Basu, 1985: 213; Chen et al., 1986: 582, 636, pl. XIV (incl. colour fig.); Basu and Halder, 1987: 237; Borowiec and Takizawa, 1991: 637; Kimoto and Chu, 1996: 133 (incl. colour photo); Kimoto et al., 1995: 104 (incl. photo); Reid, 1997: 39 (probably misidentification), 1998 b: 303; Sumana Saha and Raychaudhuri, 1997: 81; Medvedev and Sprecher-Uebersax, 1999: 347; Mohamedsaid, 2000 a: 359, 2000 b: 375, 2004: 192; Medvedev, 2000 a: 25, 2000 b: 182; Hartmann and Medvedev, 2003: 180; Lee and Cheng, 2010: 166-67 (colour photo, immatures).
Aspidimorpha furcata: Borowiec, 1996 b: 8, 2001 e: 499, 2009 d: 439; Kalaichelvan et al., 2004: 89; Kalaichelvan and Verma, 2005: 1840; Ghosh et al., 2023: 26.
Aspidimorpha (Aspidimorpha) furcata: Borowiec, 1999 d: 186; Œwiêtojañska, 2001 c: 86 (incl. fig., colour photo); Ghate et al. 2003: 523; Borowiec and Sekerka, 2010: 368.
Aspidomorph [sic!] indica: Lin and Hsiao, 2005: 113-118 (misidentification, life history).
Cassida micans Fabricius, 1801: 398 (TE unknown); Harold, 1870: 66 (as syn. of furcata); Schönherr, 1817: 221; Zimsen, 1964: 90.
Aspidomorpha micans: Boheman, 1854: 313, 1856: 114, 1862: 279.
Aspidimorpha micans: Morsbach, 1865: 114.
Cassida dorsata Olivier, 1790: 386 (TE in ?), 1808: 961 (incl. fig.); Boheman, 1856: 114 (in syn. of micans).
Host plant: Convolvulaceae: Ipomoea batatas, I. aquatica, I . cairica, I. digitata (Gressitt, 1952); Calystegia sp. (Takizawa, 1978 b); Ipomoea sp. (Takizawa, 1980; Medvedev and Dan, 1982; Reid, 1998 b); Argyreia nervosa (Takizawa, 1985 a); Argyreia hookeri, Ipomoea excavata, I. hederacea, I. sp., Lettsomia elliptica (= A. elliptica), Merremia umbellata (Ghate et al., 2003); Convolvulus nummularis, Evolvulus alsinoides, Ipomoea aquatica, I. batatas, I. coccinea, I. fistulosa, I. hgispida, I. indica, I. obscura, I. palmata, I. pestigridis, I. pilosa, I. violacea, Merremia emarginata, M. tridentata (Kalaichelvan et al., 2004); Calystegia pubescens, C. sepium, C. silvatica ssp. orientalis, Dinetus racemosus, Ipomoea batats, I. purpurea (Yang et al., 2024).
Distr.: furcata: ?; micans: Sumatra; dorsata: Siam. Bhutan; Burma; Cambodia; Ceylon; S China; India; Indonesia: Batoe, W Java, Nias, Sumatra; Laos; Macau; Malaysia; Nepal; Taiwan; Thailand; Vietnam.
figure: habitus in colour (typical forms)
figure: habitus in colour (forms with two spots on marginalia)
figure: feeding pattern on Ipomoea sp.