Chelymorpha marginata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cassida marginata Linnaeus, 1758: 363 (TE unknown), 1767: 576; Goeze, 1777: 205; Herbst, 1799: 325; Schoenherr, 1817: 230 (as syn. of brunnea); Klug, 1829: 15; Borowiec, 1999 d: 101.
Chelymorpha marginata: Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3640; Spaeth, 1914 g: 59; Maulik, 1916: 582; Blackwelder, 1946: 745; Borowiec, 1996 a: 160, 1998 b: 172, 2002 a: 74, 2009 f: 651; Borowiec and Skuza, 2004: 448, 450 (spermatheca); Borowiec and Moragues, 2005: 258; Flinte et al., 2009: 582.
Cassida cincta De Geer, 1775: 186, 1777: 205; Schoenherr, 1817: 230; Boheman, 1856: 73 (as syn. of brunnea).
Cassida tuberculata: Olivier, 1790: 384; Panzer, 1798: 88, not Fabricius, 1775; Boheman, 1854: 73 (as syn. of brunnea).
Cassida brunnea Fabricius, 1798: 81 (HT in ZMK), 1801: 391; Herbst, 1799: 350; Olivier, 1808: 959 (incl. fig.); Schoenherr, 1817: 216; Klug, 1829: 15; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3640 (as syn. of marginata).
Cyphomorpha brunnea: Hope, 1840 b: 89.
Chelymorpha brunnea: Boheman, 1854: 6, 1856: 73, 1862: 196.
Chelymorpha armigera Voet: Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3640 (nomen nudum).
Host plant: Convolvulaceae: Ipomoea batatas (Monte, 1932).
Distr.: marginata: America; cincta: Surinam; brunnea: Cajennae. Bolivia: Beni; Brazil: Amapa, Mato Grosso; Pará, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro; Colombia: Meta; Ecuador; French Guyana; Paraguay; Surinam; Venezuela: Bolivar.
figure: habitus in colour (typical form)
figure: habitus in colour (two aberrations)
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