Charidotella (s. str.) ventricosa (Boheman, 1855)
Coptocycla ventricosa Boheman, 1855: 394 (HT! in NRS!), 1856: 190, 1862: 462; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3675; Champion, 1894: 208.
Metriona ventricosa: Weise, 1896 b: 14, 1896 c: 32; Blackwelder, 1946: 753; Wilcox, 1975: 159.
Metriona (Metriona) ventricosa: Spaeth, 1914 g: 141.
Charidotella (s. str.) ventricosa: Borowiec, 1989 b: 218, 1999 d: 337; Chaboo and Borowiec, 2003: 75.
Charidotella ventricosa: Windsor et al., 1992: 390; Borowiec, 1996 a: 149, 2002 a: 63, 2009 f: 640; Jolivet, 1996: 36 (colour fig.); Cuignet, 2008: 364, 366 (parasitoids).
Coptocycla rubrotestacea Boheman, 1855: 423 (HT! in NRS!), 1856: 193, 1862: 468; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3673; Borowiec, 1989 b: 218 (as syn.).
Metriona (Metriona) rubrotestacea: Spaeth, 1914 g: 140.
Metriona rubrotestacea: Blackwelder, 1946: 752.
Host plant: Convolvulaceae: Merremia umbellata (Windsor et al., 1992).
Distr.: ventricosa: Mexico; rubrotestacea: Columbia. Belize; Guatemala; Mexico: Chiapas, Yucatan. Records from Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidada and Venezuela need verification because they probably based on misidentification with Ch. tuberculata.
figure: habitus in colour