Cassida gibbosa Fabricius, 1781

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 : 672

Cassida gibbosa Fabricius, 1781

( Figs 22–24 )

Cassida gibbosa Fabricius, 1781: 112 .

Type locality. ‘Brasilia’.

Type material examined. SYNTYPE: pinned, ‘ Cassida gibbosa | Fabr. Spec. 112. n. 33. [w, hw, s, bf]’ ( BMNH).

Status in ZIMSEN (1964). P. 91; No. 1346. ‘London, 1 specimen’.

Original description. ‘C. atra, thorace maculis duabus villoso aureis, elytris virescenti reticulatis, spina suturali obtusa. Habitat in Brasilia. Mus. Dom. Banks.

Corpus magnum, atrum. Thoracis clypeus rotundatus, emarginatus maculis duabus magnis villoso aureis. Elytra atra viridi villoso reticulata margine nigro. Sutura in medio elevata in spinam obtusam. Pedes nigri plantis fuscis.’ ( FABRICIUS 1781).

Current status. Mesomphalia gibbosa ( Fabricius, 1781) .

Remarks. Cassida gibbosa was described from the Banks collection only and ZIMSEN (1964) reported just a single specimen in the BMNH, which was quite likely the only one Fabricius used for the description. HOPE (1840) placed it in Mesomphalia Hope, 1840 and since that time the name has been correctly applied and the present identi¿cation is in accordance with the type.

Figures

Figs 19–24. 19–21 – Cassida decussata Fabricius, 1775, syntype; 22–24 – Cassida gibbosa Fabricius, 1781, syntype. (19, 22 – habitus dorsal; 20, 23– habitus lateral; 21, 24 – labels).