Hypocassida meridionalis (Suffrian, 1844)
Cassida meridionalis Suffrian, 1844: 276 (TE in ?); Desbrochers, 1891: 7, 28; Acloque, 1896: 457; Bedel, 1898: 207; Bordy and Doguet, 1987: 173; Sassi, 1994: 56; Bordy, 1997: 55 (ejaculat. apod.).
Cassida (Cassida) meridionalis: Desbrochers, 1891: 46.
Cassida (Hypocassida) meridionalis: Weise, 1893: 1074; Biondi et al., 1995 a: 27; Bordy, 2000: 90 (incl. colour fig, genitalia).
Hypocassida meridionalis: Spaeth, 1914 g: 91; Spaeth and Reitter, 1926: 23; Kocher, 1958: 147; Borowiec et al., 1997: 151; Borowiec, 1999 d: 307; Sekerka, 2004: 156; Bordy, 2005: 117-121 (bionomy, colour photo: adult, larva, pupa); Borowiec and Sekerka, 2010: 379.
Cassida meridionalis Boheman, 1854: 454 (LT! in NRS!), 1856: 140, 1862: 341; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3655.
Hypocassida meridionalis v. Viturati Pic, 1905: 179 (TE in ?); Spaeth, 1914 g: 91; Spaeth and Reitter, 1926: 23 (as syn. of meridionalis Suffr.).
Host plant: Convolvulaceae: Convolvulus arvensis, Calystegia soldanella (Sassi, 1994). Convolvulus arvensis, Convolvulus cantabrica (Bordy, 2005).
Distr.: meridionalis Suffr.: Marseille; meridionalis Boh.: Gallia meridionalis; viturati: ?. Algeria; Israel; S Italy; C and S France; Morocco; Portugal; S Spain; Turkey.
figure: habitus in colour (two forms)
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