Charidotella (s. str.) zona (Fabricius, 1801)
Cassida Zona Fabricius, 1801: 393 (ST in ZMK); Olivier, 1808: 969 (as syn. of zona); Schönherr, 1817: 217 (as syn. of annulus F.); Klug, 1829: 15.
Thyreaspis zona: Hope, 1840 b: 89.
Coptocycla zona: Boheman, 1855: 160, 1856: 165, 1862: 406; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3676; Kirsch, 1876: 94; Champion, 1894: 202.
Charidotella zona: Weise, 1896 b: 14; Spaeth, 1942 b: 36; Maes and Staines, 1991: 43; Windsor et al., 1992: 390; Buzzi, 1994: 208 (host plants); Borowiec, 1996 a: 149, 2002 a: 64, 2009 f: 641; Mohamedsaid, 2000 b: 376; Borowiec and Moragues, 2005: 254; Cuignet, 2008: 364, 366 (parasitoids); Borowiec and Takizawa, 2011: 434.
Metriona (Charidotella) zona: Spaeth, 1914 g: 136; Weise, 1921: 199.
Metriona zona: Blackwelder, 1946: 753; Wilcox, 1975: 159.
Charidotella (s. str.) zona: Borowiec, 1989 b: 218, 1999 d: 338; Chaboo and Borowiec, 2003: 75, 77; Flinte et al., 2009: 577.
Cassida annulus: Olivier, 1790: 381, not C annulus Fabricius, 1781; Herbst, 1799: 272; Illiger, 1802: 406; Boheman, 1855: 160 (as syn. of zona); Champion, 1894: 202.
Cassida flavescens Latreille in Humboldt et Bonpland, 1811: 35; Champion, 1894: 202 (as syn. of zona).
Coptocycla zona var. flavescens: Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3676.
Cassida livida Herbst, 1799: 261 (TE in ?); Schönherr, 1817: 217; Boheman, 1855: 522, 1856: 205, 1862: 487; Spaeth, 1914 g: 136 (as syn. of zona).
Coptocycla livida: Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3671.
Host plant: Convolvulaceae: Ipomoea pescaprae (Weise, 1921); Merremia umbellata, Ipomoea phillomega (Windsor et al., 1992); Ipomoea aquatica (Marques M.I., unpubl. data).
Distr.: zona: America meridionali; flavescens: Amérique Équinoxiale [from title]; livida: Indien. Bolivia: Yungas del Palmar; Brazil: Amazonas, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Pará, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro; Costa Rica; Ecuador: San Lorenzo; French Guyana; Guyana: Essequibo; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru: Loreto, Ucayali; Surinam: Paramaribo, Saramacca; Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela: Aragua, Bolivar, Distr. Federal, Miranda.
figure: habitus in colour