A Catalog of the Tortoise Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) Collection Deposited in the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH)
Author
Simões, Marianna V. P.
Author
Husemann, Martin
Author
Sekerka, Lukáš
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2021
2021-03-20
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-75.1.191
journal article
10.1649/0010-065X-75.1.191
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Aspidomorpha
(
s. str.
)
icterica
ab.
absiliens
Spaeth, 1932
(
Figs. 59–60
)
Aspidomorpha icterica
ab.
absiliens
Spaeth 1932a: 13
.
Original Locality.
Unstated, see Remarks.
Specimens Examined.
1 spec.
, pinned, “
Coll. E. Ross
| Berlin. N 113 [b, t, cb] || absiliens | m. cotyp [w, hw, cb] |
Spaeth
det. [t, w, cb] || Joko |
Kamerun
[hw, w, cb] ||
Aspidomorpha
| absiliens|72.) Spaeth. |
Kamerun
. [hw, b, bf, cb] ||
ZMH 824667
[w, bf, sf]” (
ZMH
)
.
Current Status.
Unavailable infrasubspecific name.
Remarks.
Spaeth (1932a)
proposed this taxon as an aberration, and thus it is an unavailable infrasubspecific name (
ICZN 1999
).
Spaeth (1932a)
described this taxon in the text about
Aspidomorpha icterica
Boheman, 1854
and listed its distribution, but did not state from which localities the aberration
absiliens
came. The specimen mentioned above certainly originates from the Spaeth collection.
Borowiec (1997)
studied the original specimens of the aberration
absiliens
deposited in the MM and the RMCA and concluded that they do not belong to
A. icterica
, but to
A. dissentanea
Boheman, 1862
.