Cassida palaestina Reiche, 1858
Cassida palaestina Reiche, 1858: 55 (TE in ?); Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3656; Weise, 1900: 132; Spaeth, 1914 f: 140; Bodenheimer, 1937: 149; Lopatin and Tadjibaev, 1972: 592; Lopatin, 1981: 376; Lopatin and Kulenova, 1986: 183; Kismali and Sassi, 1994: 147; Gruev, 1995 b: 340; Borowiec, 1996 b: 25, 1999 d: 270; Borowiec et al., 1997: 150 (incl. fig.); Katbeh-Bader and Medvedev, 2000: 258; Sekerka, 2004: 140, 2006 c: 95; Borowiec and Sekerka, 2010: 376.
Cassida palaestinae [sic]: Boheman, 1862: 362.
Cassida palestina [sic]: Al-Ali and Abbas, 1981: 179-184 (biology, photo).
Cassida (Cassida) palaestina: Spaeth, 1914 g: 107; Spaeth and Reitter, 1926: 42; Winkler, 1932: 1357; Lopatin, 1966 a: 369, 1977: 253; Gruev, 1988: 167.
Cassida (Cassida) palaestina ab. nigrofemorata Spaeth in Spaeth and Reitter, 1926: 42 (HT! in MM!); Winkler, 1932: 1357.
Cassida palaestinae [sic]: Boheman, 1862: 362.
Cassida incompta Weise, 1887: 334 (LT! in ZMHU!), 1893: 1105; Spaeth, 1914 g: 107 (as syn. of palaestina).
Host plant: Asteraceae: Cirsium spp. (Berti and Rapilly, 1973); Cousinia sp. (Lopatin, 1977); Carthamus tinctorius, Sylibium marianum (Al-Ali and Abbas, 1981); Cynara scolymus (Borowiec et al., 1997).
Distr.: palaestina: environs de Jérusalem; nigrofemorata: Lagodechi im Kaukasus; incompta: Turkestan. Afghanistan; Armenia; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey; Turkmenia; Uzbekistan.
figure: habitus in colour