Cassida versicolor (Boheman, 1855)
Coptocycla versicolor Boheman, 1855: 414 (ST! in NRS!, IZPAS!), 1856: 192, 1862: 465; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3675; Wêgrzynowicz and W¹sowska, 1996: 44.
Metriona versicolor: Spaeth, 1914 g: 144.
Cassida (Taiwania) versicolor: Gressitt, 1952: 502, pl. 28 (incl. fig.); Gressitt and Kimoto, 1963: 974 (incl. fig., pupa); Kimoto, 1966 a: 651, 1967 a: 38, 1976: 173, 1998: 76 (incl. colour fig.); Borowiec, 1985 a: 34; An and al., 1985: 21; Medvedev and Eroshkina, 1988: 117, 130, 132 (incl. fig., male gen.); Medvedev, 1992: 598; Kimoto and Takizawa, 1994: 347 (incl. fig., larva), 1997: 420 (incl. colour fig., larva); Kimoto and Chu, 1996: 137; Lee and An, 2001: 204 (incl. colour photo).
Taiwania (s. str.) versicolor: Chen and Zia, 1961: 440; Yu, 1983: 791, 1986: 678; Chen and al., 1986: 543, 629 (incl. fig.).
Cassida versicolor: Takizawa, 1975: 62, 1978 b: 602; Lizhong, 1982: 56; Kimoto, 1986 a: 62; 1987: 194; Borowiec, 1990 a: 698, 1999 d: 291, 2001 e: 527, 2009 d: 460; Zaitsev, 1988: 157 (larva), 1992: 183 (pupa); Dubeshko and Medvedev, 1989: 207; Lee, 1994: 54 (immature stages); Mohamedsaid, 2000 b: 376; Lee and Cho, 2006: 97; Borowiec and Sekerka, 2010: 378.
Taiwania versicolor: Lizhong, 1989: 88; Peng and Liu, 1992: 615 (fig.); Yu, 2002: 465.
Coptocycla Thais Boheman, 1862: 463 (TE in BMNH); Baly, 1874: 214; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3675; Kraatz, 1879 b: 271; Gorham, 1885: 284; Spaeth, 1914 f: 130.
Metriona thais: Spaeth, 1914 g: 144; Winkler, 1932: 1359; Gressitt, 1938 c: 585, 1939: 141.
Metriona (Metriona) thais: Chujô, 1934: 160.
Thlaspida chinensis: Gressitt, 1938 b: 385 (misidentification).
Host plant: Rosaceae: Pyrus serotina, Malus sp., Sorbus gracilis, Prunus sp. (Gressitt, 1952); Prunus spp., Malus pumila, Pourthiaea villosa var. laevis, Pyrus purifolia var. culta, Sorbus alnifolia, S. gracilis (Chujô and Kimoto, 1961); Prunus sp. (Takizawa, 1978 b); Prunus serrulata var. spontanea (Kimoto and Takizawa, 1994); Sterculiaceae: Bythneria aspera; Convolvulaceae: Ipomoea sp. (Medvedev and Eroshkina, 1988).
Distr.: versicolor: China; thais: China borealis. Burma; China; Japan; Korea; Laos; Russian Far East; Taiwan; Vietnam.
figure: habitus in colour (two forms)
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