Cassida expansa Gressitt, 1952

Sekerka, Lukáš, Jia, Fenglong, Pang, Hong & Borowiec, Lech, 2016, Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) types deposited at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Zootaxa 4084 (1), pp. 50-78 : 54-56

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4084.1.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E0CD195C-19E5-4A41-BAEF-9F6195640E8A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6057073

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CC1D3851-FFC4-FFB8-02F0-F53ED0D48921

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Cassida expansa Gressitt, 1952
status

 

Cassida expansa Gressitt, 1952 View in CoL

( Fig. 4 View FIGURES 4 – 11. 4 )

Cassida (Taiwania) expansa Gressitt, 1952: 492 View in CoL .

Cassida smaragdocruciata Medvedev & Eroshkina, 1982: 114 View in CoL , syn. nov.

Type locality. China, Hainan Prov., Qiongshan Co.,? Sanlongcun Village [we are not sure whether the transliteration is correct and the locality is unknown to us].

Original type series. Described only from the holotype ( LMNH).

Type material examined. Holotype, pinned: ‘ Hainan Is. South China. | Sam-Lwong-tsʼuen, Lam- | wan-tung (Loi territory) | in Kiung-shan District | August 5-6, 1935. | F. K. To [w, p, cb] || 605 [w, t, cb] || HO[hw]LOTYPE[p] | CASSIDA [hw] | EXPANSA [hw] | J.L.Gressitt [r, p + hw by Gressitt, cb] || [vernacular name in Chinese, hw] | Taiwania [hw] | expansa (Gressitt) [hw] | det. Li-Zhong Hua [in Chinese, p] 1987 [hw] [w, p + hw by Gressitt, cb] || En-289772 | [Data Matrix barcode] SYS [w. p, cb]’.

Current status. Valid species.

Remarks. The species remained rather enigmatic since its description as the latter was not sufficient to recognize the species. Cassida expansa belongs to the group of species with elevated X-shaped relief in postscutellar area. It is quite conspicuous by its larger size (6.7 mm) and stout body with broadly explanate margin of elytra. Such features have also C. smaragdocruciata described from Vietnam and we could not find any differences between these two taxa when compared its paratype (deposited at DBET) with the holotype of C. expansa . Hereby we synonymize C. smaragdocruciata with C. expansa .

LMNH

Museum d'Histoire naturelle

SYS

Zhongshan (Sun Yatsen) University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Genus

Cassida

Loc

Cassida expansa Gressitt, 1952

Sekerka, Lukáš, Jia, Fenglong, Pang, Hong & Borowiec, Lech 2016
2016
Loc

Cassida smaragdocruciata

Medvedev, L. N. & Eroshkina, G. A. 1982: 114
1982
Loc

Cassida (Taiwania) expansa

Gressitt, J. L. 1952: 492
1952
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