Glyphocassis trilineata (Hope, 1831)
Cassida trilineata Hope, 1831: 30 (TE in BMNH); Boheman, 1856: 123, 1862: 297; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3659.
Odontionycha trilineata: Weise, 1905 a: 124.
Glyphocassis trilineata: Spaeth, 1914 d: 548, 1914 g: 89; Maulik, 1919: 360 (incl. fig.); Kimoto and Takizawa, 1973: 180; Takizawa, 1985 a: 61, 1989: 325; Borowiec, 1985 a: 30, 1990 a: 702, 1996 b: 34, 1999 d: 306, 2001 e: 534, 2009 d: 464; Yu, 1986: 679; Medvedev and Eroshkina, 1988: 128; Verma, 1988: 2; Zaitsev, 1988: 148 (larva); Lizhong, 1989: 87; Medvedev, 1992: 35, 2000: 25; Kimoto, 1998: 41 (incl. colour photo), 2005: 111 (incl. photo); Medvedev and Sprecher-Uebersax, 1999: 350; Hartmann and Medvedev, 2003: 181; Kalaichelvan et al., 2004: 93; Kalaichelvan and Verma, 2005: 1841; Sultan et al., 2008: 97 (host plants).
Glyphocassis (s. str.) trilineata trilineata: Chen and Zia, 1961: 440; Yu, 1983: 793; Chen et al., 1986: 550, 633, pl. XIII (incl. colour fig.).
Glyphocassis trilineata trilineata: Borowiec and Sekerka, 2010: 379.
Glyphocassis trilineata ab. melanosticta Spaeth, 1914 d: 548 (ST! in MM!), 1914 g: 89.
Glyphocassis trilineata szechuana Gressitt, 1952: 480 (HT in Lingnan Mus., PT in CAS); Gressitt and Kimoto, 1963: 961; Borowiec, 1985 a: 30 (as syn. of trilineata); Borowiec, 2001 e: 534 (as distinct form); Borowiec and Sekerka, 2010: 379.
Glyphocassis (s. str.) trilineata szechuana: Chen et al. 1986: 551, 633 (incl. fig.); Sekerka et al., 2016: 59 (as good subspecies, incl.photo of holotype).
Host plant: Convolvulaceae: Ipomoea sp. (Medvedev, 1983; Takizawa, 1985 a); Convolvulus nummularius, Ipomoea aquatica, I. batatas, I. fistulosa, I. hispida, I. indica, I. obscura, I. palmata, I. pestigridis, I. pilosa, I. violacea, Merremia emarginata, M. tridentata (Kalaichelvan et al., 2004); Convolvulus arvensis, Ipomoea nil, I. eriocarpa, I. batatas (Sultan et al., 2008).
Distr.: trilineata: Nepal (from title); melanosticta: not given; szechuana: West China, eastern Szechuan Province, North of Chungking, Pe-pei. S China: Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan; NE India; Laos; Nepal; Pakistan; Thailand; Vietnam.
figure: habitus in colour (three forms)
figure: feeding pattern on Ipomoea sp.
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