Paraselenis (Spaethiechoma) flava (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cassida flava Linnaeus, 1758: 363 (TE unknown), 1767: 576; Fabricius, 1775: 92, 1781: 113, 1787: 65, 1792: 303, 1801: 403; Goeze, 1777: 205; Olivier, 1790: 388, 1808: 951 (incl. fig.); Lichtenstein, 1795: 66; Herbst, 1799: 299; Schönherr, 1817: 225; Klug, 1829: 15.

Omoplata flava: Hope, 1840 b: 3, 91; Boheman, 1854: 110, 1856: 87, 1862: 222; Burmeister, 1870: 279; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3643; Wagener, 1881: 60.

Echoma flava: Spaeth, 1913 b: 138, 1914 g: 53, 1941 a: 1061; Blackwelder, 1946: 743.

Paraselenis flava: Borowiec, 1996 a: 211, 2002 a: 109, 2009 f: 693.

Paraselenis (Spaethiechoma) flava: Borowiec, 1999 d: 126.

Cassida testacea Herbst, 1799: 300 (TE in ?ZMHU); Schoenherr, 1817: 230; Boheman, 1855: 526, 1856: 205, 1862: 487; Spaeth, 1914 g: 53 (as syn. of flava).

Omoplata testacea: Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3643.

Omoplata cinerea Voet: Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3643 (nomen nudum).

Host plant: Convolvulaceae: Ipomoea batatas, I. purpurea (Biezanko et al., 1949).

Distr.: flava: America; testacea: Indien. Argentina: Chaco, Catamarca, Salta; Bolivia: Santa Cruz; Brazil: Paraiba; Guyana; Paraguay.

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