Helocassis crucipennis (Boheman, 1855)
Coptocycla crucipennis Boheman, 1855: 307 (LT! in NRS!), 1856: 180, 1862: 444; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3668; Champion, 1894: 203.
Metriona (Metriona) crucipennis: Spaeth, 1914 g: 138.
Plagiometriona (Parametriona) crucipennis: Spaeth, 1937 b: 145.
Metriona crucipennis: Blackwelder, 1946: 751.
Metriona cruceipennis [sic]: Wilcox, 1975: 159.
Plagiometriona crucipennis: Maes and Staines, 1991: 49; Windsor et al., 1992: 390; Borowiec, 1996 a: 218; Flowers and Janzen, 1997: 356.
Helocassis crucipennis: Borowiec, 1999 d: 375, 2002 a: 94, 2009 f: 672.
Coptocycla Dohrni Boheman, 1855: 323 (LT! in NRS!, PLT! in NRS!, IZPAS!), 1856: 182, 1862: 447; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3669; Champion, 1894: 203; Węgrzynowicz and Wąsowska, 1996: 43.
Metriona (Metriona) crucipennis ab. Dohrni: Spaeth, 1914 g: 138.
Plagiometriona (Parametriona) crucipennis ab. dohrni: Spaeth, 1937 b: 145.
Metriona crucipennis ab. dohrni: Blackwelder, 1946: 751.
Coptocycla affinis Kirsch, 1865: 96 (TE in MTD); Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3665; Spaeth, 1919 c: 24 (as syn. of crucipennis).
Metriona (Metriona) affinis: Spaeth, 1914 g: 137.
Metriona affinis: Blackwelder, 1946: 751.
Host plant: Asteraceae (Flowers and Janzen, 1997).
Distr.: crucipennis: Mexico; dohrni: Mexico; affinis: Bogota. Belize; Colombia; Costa Rica; Guatemala: El Naranjo; Honduras; Mexico: Chiapas, Morelos, San Luis Potosi, Yantepec; Nicaragua: Grenada; Panama; Venezuela: Falcon.
figure: habitus in colour (three forms)