Laccoptera (Sindia) sulcata (Olivier, 1808)
Cassida sulcata Olivier, 1808: 950 (TE in ?, incl. fig.); Boheman, 1856: 116 (as syn. of clathrata).
Sindia sulcata: Borowiec , 1996 b: 42.
Laccoptera (Sindia) sulcata: Borowiec, 1999 d: 225; Świętojańska, 2001 c: 269 (incl. fig., colour photo); Ghate et al. 2003: 531; Rane and Ghate, 2006: 217 (bionomy, ootheca, larva, pupa).
Laccoptera sulcata: Borowiec, 2001 e: 536.
Cassida clathrata Fabricius, 1798: 83 (ST in ZMK), 1801: 396, nec Linnaeus, 1758; Herbst, 1799: 303; Schönherr, 1817: 219; Boheman, 1854: 330, 1856: 116, 1862: 283; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3648; Zimsen,1964: 90.
Sindia clathrata: Weise, 1897: 105; Spaeth, 1914 g: 81; Maulik, 1919: 341 (incl. fig.), 1948 a: 368-371 (immature stages, incl. fig.); Hingston, 1928: 60-64 (bionomy, immature stages, incl. fig.); Takizawa, 1985 a: 5 (photo); Borowiec, 1990 a: 706; Borowiec and Takizawa, 1991: 639.
Host plant: Convolvulaceae: Rivea sp. (Maulik, 1948 a); Rivea hypocrateriformis (Ghate et al., 2003).
Distr.: sulcata: Indes orientales; clathrata: India orientali. C and S India.
figure: habitus in colour (two forms)
figure: pair in copula (by H.V. Ghate)
figure: feeding pattern on Rivea hypocrateriformis