Cassida interrupta 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 : 672

Cassida interrupta Fabricius, 1775

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Cassida interrupta Fabricius, 1775: 89 .

Type locality. ‘nova Hollandia’ [= Australia].

Type material. SYNTYPE: pinned, ‘ Cassida Interrupta | Fab.Entom.p . [printed] 89. n. 7. [w, hw, s, bf]’ ( BMNH).

Status in ZIMSEN (1964). P. 90; No. 1309. ‘London, 1 specimen’.

Original description. ‘C. flavescens, thorace immaculato, elytris ante marginem punctisque nigris. Habitat in nova Hollandia. Mus. Dom. Banks.

Statura omnino praecedentis [ C. marginella ]. Antennae flavae, apice nigrae.Thoracis clypeus rotundatus, flavus, integer. Elytra flavescentia, linea lata atra in medio interrupta, quae ante marginem a basi ad angulum ani excurrit. Margo ipse late flavescens fasciis duabus atris, altera ad basin, altera versus apicem. In disco obscuriore puncta aliquot nigra sparsa. Corpus subtus flavescens.’ ( FABRICIUS 1775).

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

Remarks. This name has been correctly applied since its description and the present identi¿- cation is in accordance with the type. A detailed redescription of A. interrupta was published by BOROWIEC (1992). ZIMSEN (1964) reported just a single specimen in the BMNH, which was quite likely the only one Fabricius used for the description.

Figures

Figs 7–12. 7–9 – Cassida cribraria Fabricius, 1775, lectotype, and Coccinella cassidea Fabricius, 1775, neotype; 10–12 – Cassida interrupta Fabricius, 1775, syntype. (7, 10 – habitus dorsal; 8, 11 – habitus lateral; 9, 12 – labels).