Deloyala fuliginosa (Olivier, 1808)
Cassida fuliginosa Olivier, 1808: 971 (TE in ?, incl. fig.).
Coptocycla signifera var. fuliginosa: Champion, 1894: 195.
Chirida signifera ab. fuliginosa: Spaeth, 1914 g: 124.
Deloyala guttata var. fuliginosa: Blackwelder, 1946: 748.
Deloyala fuliginosa: Borowiec, 1999 d: 371, 2002 a: 87, 2009 f: 664.
Coptocycla hamulata Boheman, 1855: 316 (HT! in NRS!), 1856: 181, 1862: 445; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3670; Champion, 1894: 194 (as syn. of signifera).
Chirida signifera ab. hamulata: Spaeth, 1914 g: 124.
Coptocycla extensa Boheman, 1855: 261 (ST! in NMP!), 1856: 175, 1862: 435; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3669; Champion, 1894: 193.
Chirida extensa: Spaeth, 1914 g: 124, 1917 b: 31 (as form of signifera); Barber, 1916: 124.
Deloyala extensa: Blackwelder, 1946: 748; Wilcox, 1975: 156.
Coptocycla immunita Boheman, 1855: 318 (TE in ?), 1856: 182, 1862: 446; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3670; Champion, 1894: 195 (as syn. of fuliginosa); Spaeth, 1914: 124 (as syn. of signifera).
Chirida guttata ssp. immunita: Spaeth, 1936 a: 139.
Coptocycla lugubrina Boheman, 1855: 317 (HT! in ZMHU!), 1856: 181, 1862: 446; Champion, 1894: 196.
Ctenochira lugubrina: Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3664.
Chirida signifera ab. lugubrina: Spaeth, 1914 g: 124.
Deloyala guttata ab. lugubrina: Blackwelder, 1946: 748.
Coptocycla trabeata Boheman, 1855: 319 (ST! in NRS!), 1856: 182, 1862: 446; Crotch, 1873: 79 (as syn. of guttata); Champion, 1894: 195 (as syn. of fuliginosa); Spaeth, 1914 g: 124 (in syn. of signifera), part.
Coptocycla guttata var. trabeata: Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3670.
Coptocycla immunda Boheman, 1855: 320 (TE in NRS), 1856: 182, 1862: 447; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3670; Spaeth, 1914 g: 124 (as syn. of signifera).
Coptocycla signifera var. immunda: Champion, 1894: 195; Spaeth, 1914 g: 124 (as syn. of signifera).
Deloyala guttata var. immunda: Blackwelder, 1946: 748.
Coptocycla glabricula Boheman, 1855: 341 (HT! in NRS!), 1856: 184, 1862: 451; Gemminger and Harold, 1876: 3669; Spaeth, 1914 g: 132; Blackwelder, 1946: 749; Wilcox, 1975: 157; Borowiec, 1997: 668 (as syn. of guttata).
Chirida signifera ssp. Bohemani Spaeth, 1914 g: 124 (new name for guttata Boheman, 1855 not Olivier).
Deloyala guttata ssp. Bohemani: Blackwelder, 1946: 748.
Chirida guttata ssp. columbica Spaeth, 1936 a: 139 (ST! in MM!, BMNH).
Deloyala guttata ssp. columbica: Blackwelder, 1946: 748.
Deloyala guttata: Medvedev, 1993: 10 (misidentification); Cuignet, 2008: 364, 366 (parasitoids).
Host plant: Convolvulaceae: Merremia aegyptia (Windsor et al., 1992).
Distr.: fuliginosa: Guadeloupe; immunda: Mexico; trabeata: Mexico, America borealis; immunita: Yucatan; hamulata: S:t Domingo; extensa: Mexico; lugubrina: Mexico; glabricula: S:t Domingo; columbica: Columbien, Rio d'Agua, Buonaventura. Belize: Cayo; Brazil; Colombia: Buonaventura; Costa Rica; Cuba; Dominican Republic; El Salvador: Guazapa; Guatemala; Martinique; Mexico; USA: Texas; Nicaragua; Panama; Venezuela.
figure: habitus in colour (two typical forms)
figure: habitus in colour (three aberrations)