Aspidimorpha (s. str.) sanctaecrucis (Fabricius, 1792)
Cassida St. Crucis Fabricius, 1792: 450 (ST in ZMK), 1801: 401; Herbst, 1799: 301; Illiger, 1806: 227; Schönherr, 1817: 223; Zimsen, 1964: 91.
Aspidomorpha St. Crucis: Boheman, 1854: 287, 1856: 111, 1862: 267 (S:tae crucis); Baly, 1863: 13; Morsbach, 1865: 114 (Sanctae crucis); Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3650; Masters, 1889: 998; Weise, 1897: 102 (St. crucis); Spaeth, 1900 b: 23 (St-Crucis), 1914 g: 69, 1938 a: 231; Maulik, 1916: 586, 1919: 273 (incl. larva, pupa, fig.), 329; Spaeth and Reitter, 1926: 10; Gressitt, 1938 a: 189; Vazirani, 1972: 148 (sanctae-crucis); 1938 c: 580; 1939: 140; 1952: 466 (incl. fig., pupa); Chen and Zia, 1961: 441; Gressitt and Kimoto, 1963: 953 (incl. fig., pupa); Wilcox, 1975: 154; Takizawa, 1980 a: 27 (larva, pupa); 1985 a: 5; 1985 d: 113; Kimoto, 1981a: 57, 1998: 31 (incl. colour photo), 2001: 70 (incl. photo), 2005: 107 (incl. photo); Medvedev and Dan, 1982: 95; Medvedev and Eroshkina, 1982: 105, 106; 1988: 124; Lizhong, 1982: 54; 1989: 86; Yu, 1983: 795 (sanctae-crucis), 1986: 683, 2002: 466; Zaitsev and Medvedev, 1983: 144 (larva); Borowiec, 1985 a: 26; 1990 a: 688; Basu, 1985: 213; Chen et al., 1986: 586, 636, pl. XIV (incl. colour fig.); Basu and Halder, 1987: 237; Verma, 1988: 2; Medvedev, 1992: 35 (sanctae-crucis), 1997: 264, 2000 a: 25, 2000 b: 182 (sanctae-crucis); Mohamedsaid, 1993: 46 (colour photo), 2000 a: 359, 2004: 194; Kimoto et al., 1995: 106 (incl. photo); Haitlinger, 1996: 985, 988 (parasites); Sumana Saha and Raychaudhuri, 1997: 76; Reid, 1998 b: 303; Medvedev and Sprecher-Uebersax, 1999: 348; Hartmann and Medvedev, 2003: 180; Verma and Kalaichelvan, 2004 b: 132 (ootheca).
Aspidomorpha Santae-Crucis [sic]: Duvivier, 1891: 50.
Aspidimorpha sanctaecrucis: Borowiec, 1996 b: 12, 2001 e: 504, 2009 d: 444; Kalaichelvan et al., 2004: 92; Kalaichelvan and Verma, 2005: 1840; Borowiec and Świętojańska, 2007: 287; Haitlinger, 2009 b: 70 (parasites), 2009 c: 325, 327 (parasites); Chattopadhyay, 2020: 279-280.
Aspidimorpha (Aspidimorpha) sanctaecrucis: Borowiec, 1999 d: 198; Świętojańska, 2001 c: 163 (incl. fig., colour photo); Ghate et al. 2003: 525; Sekerka, 2004: 125, 2006 c: 90; Borowiec and Sekerka, 2010: 369.
Aspidomorpha sactaecrucis [sic]: Mohamedsaid, 2000 b: 375.
Aspidomorpha st. crucis var. insularis Spaeth, 1912 d: 118 (ST! in MM!).
Aspidomorpha sanctaecrucis ssp. insularis: Spaeth, 1914 g: 70.
Aspidomorpha sanctae crucis ssp. insularis: Spaeth, 1926 c: 117.
Cassida jamaicensis: Olivier, 1790: 386, 1808: 952; Herbst, 1799: 303, not Linnaeus, 1758; Spaeth, 1914 g: 69 (as syn. of sanctaecrucis).
Aspidomorpha bajula Boheman, 1854: 288 (HT! in NRS!), 1856: 111, 1862: 267; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3648; Spaeth, 1914 g: 69 (as syn. of sanctaecrucis); Borowiec, 1990 a: 685 (as syn. of lobata).
Aspidomorpha fraterna Baly, 1863: 11, 13 (HT! in BMNH!); Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3649; Weise, 1897: 103 (as syn. of sanctaecrucis).
Aspidomorpha sanctaecrucis var. fraterna: Spaeth, 1914 g: 70.
Aspidomorpha sanctae-crucis fraterna: Gressitt, 1939: 140.
Aspidomorpha orientalis Dej.: Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3650 (nomen nudum).
Host plant: Convolvulaceae: Ipomoea sp. (Gressitt, 1952; Takizawa, 1980, 1985 a; Medvedev and Dan, 1982); Ipomoea carnea, Argyreia hookeri, Rivea hypocrateriformis, R. ornata (Ghate et al., 2003); Ipomoea aquatica, I. batatas, I. fistulosa, I. palmata, I. violacea (Kalaichelvan et al., 2004: 92).
Distr.: sanctaecrucis: in Americe Insulis; insularis: Borneo, Lawas, Trusan and Limbang (Sarawak); Borneo, Sumatra; bajula: ?America; fraterna: Cambodia. Bangladesh; Bhutan; Burma ; Cambodia; Ceylon; China: Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan; India; Indonesia: Borneo, Java, Seram, Sumatra; Laos; Malaysia; Nepal; Pakistan: Karachi; Philippines: Samar; Thailand; Vietnam.
figure: pair in copula (photo by H.V. Ghate)
figure: habitus in colour (typical form and ab. insularis)
figure: habitus in colour (form from Hainan and ab. fraterna)
figure: live specimens
figure: larvae
figure: host plant - Argyreia cuneata
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