Cassida hemisphaerica Herbst, 1799
Cassida margaritacea: Brahm, 1790: 73; Thunberg, 1794: 103; Gyllenhal, 1813: 448; Stephens, 1832: 371 (misidentification).
Cassida hemisphaerica Herbst, 1799: 226 (TE in ?); Schönherr, 1817: 220; Gyllenhal, 1827: 645; Stephens, 1829: 230, 1832: 371; Suffrian, 1844: 92, 1846: 361; Lucas, 1849 a: 514; Redtenbacher, 1849: 519, 1858: 952, 1874: 521; Boheman, 1854: 484, 1856: 145, 1862: 349; Wollaston, 1854: 439, 1857: 130, 1864: 419, 1865: 376; Kraatz, 1874: 104; Seidlitz, 1875: 490, 1891: 703, 1891: 789; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3654; Heyden, 1877: 364; Fowler, 1890: 401, 1913: 295; Desbrochers, 1891: 32; Weise, 1893: 1075, 1087; Acloque, 1896: 456; Bedel, 1898: 207; Everts, 1901: 515; Reitter, 1912: 213; Bechyne, 1944: 80; Kocher, 1958: 148; Jolivet, 1967: 379; Kosior, 1975: 273; Silfverberg, 1979: 61; Gruev, 1980: 91, 1992: 413; Lopatin, 1986: 115; Bordy and Doguet, 1987: 168 (incl. spermatheca); Sassi, 1994: 58; Aleksandrovitch et al., 1996: 52; Bordy, 1997: 55 (ejaculat. apod.); Petitpierre et. al., 1998: 2 (karyotype); Borowiec, 1999 d: 255; Sekerka, 2004: 133, 2006 c: 92, 2007 c: 89, 2010: 18 (colour photo); Borowiec and Sekerka, 2010: 374.
Cassida (Cassida) hemisphaerica: Desbrochers, 1891: 46.
Cassida (Odontionycha) hemisphaerica: Weise, 1891 b: 204; Spaeth, 1914 g: 93; Spaeth and Reitter, 1926: 26; Winkler, 1932: 1356; Warcha³owski, 1978: 135 (incl. male gen.); Rozner, 1996: 259.
Cassida (Mionychella)
hemisphaerica: Brovdii,
1983: 88
(incl. fig., male gen., biology); Gruev
and Tomov, 1986: 373 (incl. outline, male gen.), 1998:
136, 2007: 316; Strejèek,
1993: 132; Biondi
et al., 1995 a: 27, 1995 b: 648; Bordy,
2000: 96
(incl. colour fig, genitalia); Warcha³owski,
2000: 187; Verdugo and Petitpierre, 2019: 89-91.
Cassida corii Fairmaire, 1876: 25 (TE in ?), 1880: 244; Desbrochers, 1891: 46 (as syn. of hemisphaerica).
Cassida hemisphaerica var. cori [sic!]: Desbrochers, 1891: 33, 38; Winkler, 1932: 1356; Gruev, 1990 a: 352.
Cassida cori [sic!]: Spaeth, 1917 c: 8-9 (confirmed synonymy with hemisphaerica).
Cassida hemisphaerica var. peculiosa Weise, 1895 a: 224 (TE in ?); Spaeth, 1914 g: 94.
Cassida (Odontionycha) hemisphaerica ab. peculiosa: Winkler, 1932: 1356.
Cassida hemisphaerica ab. bicolor Bechyne, 1944: 77 (TE in ?).
Cassida anglica Curtis, 1826: 93 (TE in ?); Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3654 (as syn. of hemisphaerica).
Cassida concinna Stephens, 1832: 371 (TE in ?); Boheman, 1854: 485 (as syn. of hemisphaerica).
Cassida Rossii Wollaston, 1857: 130 (TE in ?), 1865: 376 (as possible syn. of hemisphaerica); Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3657; Spaeth, 1914 g: 93.
Cassida nigriventris Heyden, 1877: 364 (TE in ?).
Cassida hemisphaerica var. nigriventris: Weise, 1893: 1087.
Cassida hemisphaerica ab. nigriventris: Reitter, 1912: 213.
Cassida hemisphaerica ab. Heydeni Spaeth, 1914 f: 136 (new name for Cassida nigriventris Heyden, 1877 not Boheman, 1854).
Cassida (Odontionycha) hemisphaerica ab. Heydeni: Spaeth and Reitter, 1926: 25; Winkler, 1932: 1356.
Cassida hemisphaerica var. Heydeni: Spaeth, 1914 g: 94.
Cassida pectoralis Parreys: Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3654 (nomen nudum).
Cassida punctata Andersch: Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3654 (nomen nudum).
Cassida reticulata Kirby: Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3654 (nomen nudum).
Cassida retifera Ziegler: Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3654 (nomen nudum).
Cassida sulfurea Megerle:; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3654 (nomen nudum).
Host plant: Caryophyllaceae: Gypsophila paniculata, Silene vulgaris, S. nutans (Bechyne, 1944); Silene spp. (Steinhausen, 1950); Silene nutans (Kosior, 1975); Silene latifolia, S. cucubalus, Gypsophila paniculata, Dianthus campestris, D. caryophyllus, Saponaria sp. (Brovdii, 1983); Silene flos-cuculi, S. latifolia ssp. alba, Saponaria officinalis (Bordy, 2000).
Distr.: hemisphaerica: Deutschland; bicolor: Èejèe na jižni Moravì, anglica: ?; concinna: not given; rossi: Madeira: Quinta, northern outskirts of Funchal; nigriventris: Nassau [from title]; peculiosa: Wutha, in der Nähe von Eisenach. Europe; Madeira.
figure: habitus in colour
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