Botanochara angulata (Germar, 1824)

Cassida angulata Germar, 1824: 541 (LT! in ZMHU!); Klug, 1829: 7.

Poecilaspis angulata: Boheman, 1850: 411, 1856: 69, 1862: 186; Burmeister, 1870: 277; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3636; Tenenbaum, 1927: 36; Spaeth, 1940 d: 15.

Poecilaspis (Poecilaspis) angulata: Spaeth, 1914 g: 46.

Botanochara angulata: Blackwelder, 1946: 741; Buzzi, 1988: 571 (biology); Haitlinger, 1991: 387 (phoretic mites); Borowiec, 1996 a: 130, 1999 d: 87, 2002 a: 51, 2009 f: 625; Mohamedsaid, 2000 b: 375; Simões et al., 2021: 205.

Host plant: Convolvulaceae: Pharbitis hispida (Frers, 1922); Calonyction speciosum, Ipomoea batatas, Pharbitis hispida (Silva et al., 1968); Ipomoea batatas (Biezanko et al., 1949).

Distr.: Buenos Ayres. Argentina: Buenos Aires, Cordoba, La Pampa, Pico, Salta, San Pedro; S Brazil: Parana, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo; Paraguay; Uruguay: Canelones, Las Piedras.

figure: habitus in colour (two forms)

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