Cassida ancorifera Boheman, 1856
Cassida ancorifera Boheman, 1856: 130 (HT! in BMNH!), 1862: 319; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3652; Shaw, 1961: 27; Borowiec, 1986 a: 805, 1999 d: 237; Rice, 2003: 80; Coache & Rainon, 2020: 27 (colour photo); Borowiec & Świetojańska, 2022: 29 (colour photo).
Cassida (Cassida) ancorifera: Spaeth, 1914 g: 118.
Cassida insignis Spaeth, 1924: 359 (ST! in BMNH!, MCSNG!, MM!), 1933 a: 345; Shaw, 1972: 75; Borowiec, 1999 d: 237 (as syn. of ancorifera).
Cassida ancorifera ssp. insignis: Spaeth, 1943: 59.
Cassida insignis ab. Seydeli Spaeth, 1933 a: 345 (HT! in MRAC!).
Cassida comtula Spaeth, 1924: 361 (HT! in MCSNG!); Borowiec, 1999 d: 237 (as syn. of ancorifera).
Distr.: ancorifera: Sierra Leona insignis: Nyassa, Zomba; Victoria Nyanza, Sesse Insel Bugala; seydeli: Katanga: bei Elisabethville; comtula: Fernando Poo. Benin; Cameroon; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Republic of Central Africa; Sierra Leone; Tanzania; Uganda; Zaire; Zambia; Zimbabwe.
figure: habitus in colour (pale forms)
figure: habitus in colour (dark forms)
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