Cassida azurea Fabricius, 1801
Cassida ornata Creutzer, 1799: 118 (TE in ?), not C. ornata Herbst, 1783; Schönherr, 1817: 212 (as syn. of azurea); Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3656; Seidlitz, 1891: 702, 1891: 788; Bechyne, 1944: 84; Dubeshko and Medvedev, 1989: 205.
Cassida (Cassida) ornata: Desbrochers, 1891: 46.
Cassida (Mionycha) ornata: Spaeth and Reitter, 1926: 51.
Cassida azurea var. ornata: Weise, 1893: 1088.
Cassida azurea ab. ornata: Reitter, 1912: 215; Winkler, 1932: 1358.
Cassida azurea Fabricius, 1801: 389 (HT in ZMK); Schönherr, 1817: 212; Suffrian, 1844: 213, 1846: 362; Fuss, 1853: 156; Boheman, 1854: 411, 1856: 132, 1862: 329; Bach, 1856: 75; Redtenbacher, 1858: 953, 1874: 522; Puton, 1874: 8; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3656 (as syn. of ornata); Rupertsberger, 1876: 398; Heyden, 1877: 365; Desbrochers, 1891: 8, 29, 46 (as syn. of ornata); Weise, 1893: 1076, 1088; Acloque, 1896: 457; Bedel, 1898: 208, 1901: 333; Evers, 1901: 516; Reitter, 1912: 214; Maw and Steinhausen, 1980: 421; Gruev, 1980: 91, 1992: 408; Lopatin and Kulenova, 1986: 181; Lopatin, 1986: 116; Bordy and Doguet, 1987: 172 (incl. spermatheca); Dubeshko and Medvedev, 1989: 202; Sassi, 1994: 79; Aleksandrovitch et al., 1996: 52; Bordy, 1997: 60 (ejaculat. apod.); Petitpierre et. al., 1998: 2 (karyotype); Borowiec, 1999 d: 238; Sekerka, 2004: 128, 2006 c: 90, 2010: 3, 5, 6, 17 (colour photo); Borowiec and Sekerka, 2010: 372; Borowiec and Ghahari, 2021: 10.
Cassida (Mionycha) azurea: Weise, 1891 b: 204; Spaeth, 1914 g: 95; Winkler, 1932: 1358; Lopatin, 1977 a: 252; Warcha³owski, 1978: 145 (incl. male gen.), 2000: 182; Browdii, 1983: 90 (incl. fig., male gen.); Gruev and Tomov, 1986: 368 (incl. pronotum, male gen.), 1998: 134, 2007: 312; Strejèek, 1993: 132; Biondi et al., 1995 a: 27; Rozner, 1996: 260; Bordy, 2000: 99 (incl. colour fig, genitalia).
Mionycha azurea: Spaeth, 1914 f: 146.
Cassida lucida Suffrian, 1844: 215 (TE in ?, incl. larva, pupa, biology); Boheman, 1854: 412, 1856: 133, 1862: 329; Kraatz, 1874: 94 (as syn. of azurea).
Cassida azurea var. lucida: Desbrochers, 1891: 30.
Cassida (Cassida) ornata var. lucida: Desbrochers, 1891: 46.
Cassida hemisphaerica: Maw, 1976: 945-954 (biology, misidentification).
Host plant: Caryophyllaceae: Silene behen, S. conica, S. vulgaris (Bechyne, 1944); Silene spp., Saponaria officinalis (Steinhausen, 1950); Silene vulgaris (Bibolini, 1975); Silene conica, S. behen, S. vulgaris, Saponaria officinalis (Brovdii, 1983); Saponaria officinalis, Silene alba (Sassi, 1994).
Distr.: ornata: Austria, Hungaria; azurea: Hungaria; lucida: Germany: Ems. Europe; Iran; Kazakhstan; Turkey; ?Algeria.
figure: habitus in colour