Charidotis vitreata (Perty, 1830)

Cassida vitreata Perty, 1830: 103 (TE in ?).

Coptocycla vitreata: Boheman, 1855: 401, 1856: 191, 1862: 463; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3675; Champion, 1894: 198.

Charidotis vitreata: Spaeth, 1901 a: 348, 1914 b: 166, 1914 g: 148, 1936 c: 72, 1942 b: 40; Blackwelder, 1946: 755; Wilcox, 1975: 160; Maes and Staines, 1991: 43; Windsor et al., 1992: 391; Borowiec, 1996 a: 156, 1999 d: 357, 2009 f: 648; Cuignet, 2008: 364, 366 (parasitoids).

Coptocycla Heydeni Wagener, 1877: 57 (TE in ?).

Charidotis Heydeni: Spaeth, 1914 g: 146; Blackwelder, 1946: 754.

Charidotis vitreata ssp. heydeni: Spaeth, 1936 c: 72, 1942 b: 40.

Charidotis Herminae Spaeth, 1898 a: 278 (ST! in MM!), 1899: taf. 5 (fig.), 1901 a: 348 (as syn. of vitreata).

Charidotis vicina Spaeth, 1899: 219 (HT! in MM!), 1914 g: 146 (as syn. of heydeni).

Coptocycla vetusta Dej.: Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3675 (nomen nudum).

Host plant: Boraginaceae: Cordia spinescens, C. alliodora (Windsor et al., 1992).

Distr.: vitreata: ?; heydeni: [Colombia]: Muzo; herminae: Brasilia, Minas Geraës; vicina: Bogota. Argentina: Misiones; Brazil: Amazonas, Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina; Colombia: Muzo; Guatemala: Panzos, Vera Paz, Zapote; Mexico: Tabasco; Nicaragua: Chontales; Panama: Bugaba, Darien; Peru.

figure: habitus in colour (two aberrations)

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