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Cassida tetraptera Gerstaecker 1884

Description

Cassida tetraptera Gerstaecker, 1884

Cassida tetraptera Gerstaecker 1884: 63.

Type Localities. “[Kenya / Tanzania:] Massai (Auch von Bagamojo [Tanzania: Bagamoyo] vorliegend)”.

Data Available in Gebien (1907). “ 1 Ex. Massailand. G. A. Fischer leg. Georg. Ges. ded. 1884 (Nach Spaeth syn. mit Aspidomorpha 4maculata Ol.)”.

Current Status. Synonym of Aspidomorpha (s. str.) nigropunctata (Klug, 1835).

Remarks. The number of specimens used for description of this taxon was not specified by Gerstaecker (1884). However, he must have had at least two, as two localities were mentioned.

Notes

Published as part of Simões, Marianna V. P., Husemann, Martin & Sekerka, Lukáš, 2021, A Catalog of the Tortoise Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) Collection Deposited in the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH), pp. 191-210 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1) on page 204, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.191, http://zenodo.org/record/5454573

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Chrysomelidae
Genus
Cassida
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Gerstaecker
Species
tetraptera
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Cassida tetraptera Gerstaecker, 1884 sec. Simões, Husemann & Sekerka, 2021

References

  • Gerstaecker, C. 1884. Bestimmung der von Herrn Dr. G. A. Fischer wahrend seiner Reise nach dem Massai-Land gesammelten Coleopteren. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenchaftlichen Anstalten 1: 41 - 63.
  • Gebien, H. 1907. Verzeichnis der im Naturhistorischen Museum zu Hamburg vorhandenen Typen von Coleopteren. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 24: 195 - 228.