Wallacea dactyliferae Maulik, 1919

Sekerka, Lukáš, 2015, Wallacea, Pistosia and Neodownesia: three distinct genera and their tribal placement (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (2), pp. 713-743 : 733

Wallacea dactyliferae Maulik, 1919

Wallacea dactyliferae Maulik 1919: 107 (original description, larva, host plant); GESTRO (1919): 343 (host plants); ABDULLAH & QURESHI (1969): 95 (faunistics); BOROWIEC & SEKERKA (2010): 383 (catalogue).

Wallaceana dactyliferae: MAULIK (1937a) : 150 (noted); BEESON (1941): 230 (noted); LEPESME (1947): 564 (noted); KALSHOVEN (1957): 10 (noted); UHMANN (1958): 230 (catalogue); MONRÓS (1960): 31 (illustration, faunistics, host plant); CHEN et al. (1962): 120 (faunistics); UHMANN (1964): 461 (catalogue); KIMOTO (1976): 9 (faunistics); ANAND (1989): 10 (faunistics); HOWARD & ABAD (2001): 99 (noted); SANTIAGO- BLAY (2004): 82 (noted).

Pistosia dactyliferae: CHEN et al. (1986) : 136 (Chinese fauna), 599 (key to species); KIMOTO & CHU (1996): 128 (catalogue); BASU (1999): 166 (faunistics); KIMOTO (1999): 67 (faunistics); HUA (2002):294 (catalogue); DRESCHER & MARTINEZ (2005): 34 (introduction to France, host plants, biology, pest status); BEENEN & ROQUES (2010): 289 (noted, several times mentioned in text as P. dactylifera [sic!]); LEE & CHENG (2010): 162 (Taiwanese fauna, immature stages, host plant).

Pystosia [sic!] dactyliferae: ZAITZEV (2006a) : 1031 (immature stages, faunistics); ZAITZEV (2006b): 607 (immature stages, faunistics).

Type locality. ‘[ India], Madras : Chingleput, Vamambady ; Bengal: Pusa’.

Host plants. Arecaceae : Phoenix sp. ( MAULIK 1919); Borassus flabellifer L. ( MONRÓS 1960); Calamus sp. (ZAITZEV 2006a,b); Arenga tremula (Blanco) Becc. ( LEE & CHENG 2010) ; Phoenix canariensis H. Wildpret , Chamaerops humilis L., Washingtonia filifera (Rafarin) H.Wendl. ex de Bary ( DRESCHER & MARTINEZ 2005) .

Distribution. Bangladesh ( ABDULLAH & QURESHI 1969); China: Yunnan ( CHEN et al. 1962); India: Bihar, Tamil Nadu ( MAULIK 1919), Karnataka ( MONRÓS 1960); Taiwan ( KIMOTO 1976, LEE & CHENG 2010); Thailand: Nakhon Si Thammarat ( KIMOTO 1999); Vietnam (ZAITZEV 2006a,b). Introduced and established in France ( DRESCHER & MARTINEZ 2005).

Remarks. ABDULLAH & QURESHI (1969) reported the species in a summary table of hispine species of economic importance and stated its distribution was Pakistan and India. However, they did not place the species in either key to hispines of West or East Pakistan. Based on the distribution of W. dactyliferae it more likely occurs in Bangladesh, formerly known as East Pakistan.

MONRÓS (1960) published a drawing of the adult specimen provided with locality data and noted that the specimen was collected on palmyra palm. The vernacular name refers to the genus Borassus and there is only one species in India, Borassus flabellifer L. ( HENDERSON 2009), which is hence listed among host plants of W. dactyliferae .