Aspidimorpha (s. str.) nigropunctata (Klug, 1835)
Cassida quadrimaculata Olivier, 1808: 945 (TE in ?), not C. quadrimaculata De Geer, 1775, not C. quadrimaculata Thunberg, 1789.
Aspidomorpha quadrimaculata: Boheman, 1854: 263, 1856: 107; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3650; Wagener, 1880: 161; Kolbe, 1898: 343; Weise, 1899 a: 260 (4-maculata), 1912: 159; Spaeth, 1906 a: 401, 1909 d: 278, 191 2 b: 505, 1916 b: 40, 1924: 281, 1929 a: 158, 1938 b: 61, 1943: 49; Shaw,1956 a: 262, 1956 b: 593, 1963: 459, 1968 a: 370, 1972: 65; Borowiec, 1985 b: 235, 1985 c: 444, 1986 a: 797.
Aspidomorpha (Aspidomorpha) quadrimaculata: Spaeth, 1914 g: 77.
Aspidomorpha 4-maculata ab. signaticollis Weise, 1905 d: 334 (ST! in ZMHU!); Spaeth, 1909 d: 278, 1916 b: 41.
Aspidomorpha (Aspidomorpha) quadrimaculata ab. signaticollis: Spaeth, 1914 g: 77.
Aspidomorpha quadrimaculata ssp. signaticollis: Shaw, 1972: 66.
Cassida nigropunctata Klug, 1835: 47 (TE in ?ZMHU); Boheman, 1856: 206, 1862: 488; Spaeth, 1914 g: 77 (as syn. of quadrimaculata).
Aspidomorpha nigropunctata: Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3650; Mohamedsaid, 2000 b: 375.
Aspidimorpha (Aspidimorpha) nigropunctata: Borowiec, 1997 b: 420 (incl. fig.), 1999 d: 193; Sekerka, 2004: 125, 2006 c: 90; Coache & Rainon, 2020: 12 (colour photo).
Cassida tetraptera Gerstaecker, 1884: 63 (TE was preserved in Hamburg, destroyed during II World War); Kolbe, 1898: 345; Spaeth, 1906 a: 401 (as syn. of quadrimaculata).
Aspidomorpha (Conchyloctenia) tetraptera: Spaeth, 1902b: 450.
Aspidomorpha Westermanni Boheman, 1854: 262 (HT! in NRS!), 1856: 107, 1862: 259 (as syn. of quadrimaculata); Gorham in Gorham and Gahan, 1892: 93; Weise, 1896 c: 16.
Aspidomorpha maculicollis Linell, 1895: 696 (TE in USNM).
Aspidomorpha (Aspidomorpha) maculicollis: Spaeth, 1914 g: 76.
Distr.: quadrimaculata: Afrique, dans le royaume d'Oware; signaticollis: Tanzania: Uhehe; nigropunctata: not given; tetraptera: ?; westermanni: Guinea; maculicollis: Jombene Range. Benin; Burundi; Cameroon; Equatorial Guinea; Ghana; Guinea; Gu inea Bissau; Ivory Coast; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Somalia; South Africa; Sudan; Tanzania; Togo; Uganda; Zaire; Zambia; Zimbabwe.
figure: habitus in colour (two forms)
figure: habitus in colour (rare form)
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