Cassida japana Baly, 1874
Cassida japana Baly, 1874: 212 (TE in BMNH); Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3654; Kraatz, 1879 b: 273; 1914 a: 19 (as bona sp.); Spaeth, 1914 a: 19; Jolivet, 1975: 72; Lizhong, 1982: 56; Medvedev and Eroshkina, 1988: 130, 131 (incl. male genitalia); Borowiec, 1990 a: 695, 1996 b: 22, 1999 d: 259, 2001 e: 518, 2009 d: 454; Medvedev, 1992: 600 (as syn. of piperata); Peng and Liu, 1992: 613 (fig.); Kimoto, 1998: 59 (as syn. of piperata, incl. colour photo); Borowiec and Sekerka, 2010: 374.
Cassida (Cassida) japana: Spaeth, 1914 f: 130, 1914 g: 103; Spaeth and Reitter, 1926: 31; Winkler, 1932: 1356; Chujô, 1934: 173; Gressitt, 1939: 142, 1952: 508 (incl. biology, pl. 33: adult, ootheca, larvae, pupa); Gressitt and Kimoto, 1963: 977; Borowiec, 1985 a: 35; Chen and al., 1986: 477, 625 (incl. male gen.); Yu, 1986: 674.
Cassida japonica [sic]: Lizhong, 1989: 87.
Cassida piperata var. japana: Weise, 1900 f: 295.
Cassida rugifera Kraatz, 1879 b: 274 (TE in ?DEI); Gorham, 1885: 283; Weise, 1900 f: 295 (as syn. of japana).
Cassida annamita Spaeth, 1919 a: 197 (ST! in HNHM, MM!); Medvedev and Eroshkina, 1988: 131 (as syn. of japana).
Cassida japana ab. anamita [sic]: Spaeth and Reitter, 1926: 31.
Cassida lineola: Gressitt, 1938 b: 387, 1938 c: 587 (misidentification).
Distr.: japana: Nagasaki; rugifera: Japan; annamita: Annam: Laos. China; Japan; Taiwan; Vietnam.
figure: habitus in colour (three forms)
figure: life specimen