Cassida ruralis (Boheman, 1862)
Coptocycla ruralis Boheman, 1862: 461 (TE in BMNH); Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3673; Weise, 1897: 110.
Metriona ruralis: Spaeth, 1914 g: 144, 1926 c: 119.
Cassida ruralis: Spaeth, 1938 a: 235; Maulik, 1919: 399; Borowiec, 1990 a: 696, 1996 b: 27, 1999 a: 4 (incl. fig.), 1999 d: 280, 2001 e: 524, 2009 d: 458; Kimoto et al., 1995: 110 (incl. photo); Reid, 1998 b: 303; Kimoto, 1998 b: 88, 2005: 110 (incl. photo, but on colour photo is presented Nilgiraspis andrewesi not Cassida ruralis); Mohamedsaid, 2004: 198; Borowiec and Sekerka, 2010: 377.
Taiwania (s. str.) ruralis: Chen and al., 1986: 536, 629.
Cassida (Taiwania) ruralis: Kimoto, 1996 a: 51, 1998: 73 (on colour photo is presented Nilgiraspis andrewesi not Cassida ruralis); Kimoto and Takizawa, 1997: 420 (incl. colour fig.); Medvedev and Sprecher-Uebersax, 1999: 349.
Host plant: Asteraceae: Blumea balsamifera, B. sinensis (Reid, 1998 b).
Distr.: Java. Burma; China: Yunnan; India: Meghalaya, Kerala; Indonesia: Bali, Java; Malaysia: Cameron Highlands, Sabah; Nepal; Taiwan.
figure: habitus in colour (two forms)
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