Cassida circumflexa Spaeth, 1926

Rice, Marlin E., 2003, New Host Plant Associations And Distribution Records For Tortoise Beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) From Southern Africa, The Coleopterists Bulletin 57 (1), pp. 79-83 : 80-81

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1649/0010-065X(2003)057[0079:NHPAAD]2.0.CO;2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5397048

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E1098854-BC20-181E-B4C8-EA6AFD46BF13

treatment provided by

Tatiana

scientific name

Cassida circumflexa Spaeth
status

 

Cassida circumflexa Spaeth View in CoL

New country record: ZIMBABWE, Mazowe Dam, 178319060S, 308599130E, 16- IX-1998, one adult beaten from woody vegetation along the Mazowe River . Borowiec (in litt.) states that this species was previously known only from the type specimen which was collected in Mozambique at Port E. A., Chibababa, on the Lower Buzi River (Borowiec 1999). The collection in Zimbabwe represents a new country record and extends the range west of its previously known distribution .

New country record: ZIMBABWE, 21 km W Centenary, Miware Raffia Palm Reserve , 26-VIII-1998, one adult beaten from woody vegetation. This species has previously been collected from Equatorial Guinea, to Kenya and Somalia in the east, and south to Zambia and South Africa (Borowiec 1999) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Genus

Cassida

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