Cassida miliaris Fabricius, 1775

Sekerka, Lukáš & Barclay, Maxwell V. L., 2014, Fabrician types of Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54 (2), pp. 657-684 : 674

Cassida miliaris Fabricius, 1775

( Figs 28–30 )

Cassida miliaris Fabricius, 1775: 91 .

Type locality. ‘insula St. Helenae’.

Type material examined. LECTOTYPE (here designated): pinned, ‘ Cassida Miliaris | Fab.Entom.p. [p] 91. n. 15. [w, hw, bf]’ ( BMNH).The specimen is provided with an additional label: ‘LECTOTYPUS | Cassida | miliaris | Fabricius, 1775 | L. Sekerka & | M.V.L. Barclay des. 2014 [r, p, cb]’.

Status in ZIMSEN (1964). P. 91; No. 1333. ‘London, 1 specimen. (Kiel 3 specimens)’.

Original description. ‘C. flava, thorace immaculato, elytris nigro punctatis: margine bifasciato. Habitat in insula St. Helenae. Mus. Dom. Banks.

Statura C. marginatae.Antennae flavae, apice nigrae. Thoracis clypeus rotundatus, integer, immaculatus. Elytra laevia, flava, punctis circiter decem nigris sparsis. Margo uti in reliquis dilatatus fasciis duabus, altera ad basin, altera versus apicem nigris. Sutura apice nigra. Subtus nigra, margine flavescente. Pedes flavi.’ ( FABRICIUS 1775).

Current status. Aspidimorpha (Aspidimorpha) miliaris ( Fabricius, 1775) .

Remarks. ZIMSEN (1964) reported one BMNH and three JFUK specimens. It is unlikely that the three JFUK specimens were retained by Fabricius from the original Banks series as they do not agree well enough with the original description. FABRICIUS (1775) used for description specimen(s) with approximately ten black spots on each elytron. The BMNH specimen has the left elytron with eleven spots and right with ten while the JFUK specimens have larger and less numerous spots on the elytra. Therefore only the BMNH specimen is considered to be a syntype and is here ¿xed by lectotype designation to avoid any further confusions with JFUK specimens. The species has nearly always been identi¿ed and the name applied correctly.

Figures

Figs 25–30. 25–27 – Cassida marginella Fabricius, 1775, lectotype; 28–30 – Cassida miliaris Fabricius, 1775, lectotype. (25, 28 – habitus dorsal; 26, 29 – habitus lateral; 27, 30 – labels).