Aspidomorpha (Aspidomorpha) difformis ( Motschulsky, 1860 )

Gupta, Devanshu, Ghosh, Priyanka, Wani, Irtiza, Bhunia, Debika, Sonali, Shipra & Kumar, Vivek, 2025, A comprehensive checklist and geographic distribution of Tortoise beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) in India, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 11 (3), pp. 543-600 : 585

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https://doi.org/10.61186/jibs.11.3.543

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17030318

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scientific name

Aspidomorpha (Aspidomorpha) difformis ( Motschulsky, 1860 )
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Aspidomorpha (Aspidomorpha) difformis ( Motschulsky, 1860)

Deloyala difformis Motschulsky, 1860:27 . Deloyala difformis Motschulsky, 1860:27 . Aspidomorpha difformis ab. japonica Spaeth in Spaeth & Reitter, 1926:10.

General distribution. Palaearctic ( China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Taiwan) (Świętojańska, 2001; Borowiec & Świętojańska, 2024).

Remarks. The record of this species from India , specifically West Bengal ("Calcutta" Kolkata - Maulik, 1913), is based on misidentification. Its occurrence in India is considered unlikely given its known general distribution.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Genus

Aspidomorpha

Loc

Aspidomorpha (Aspidomorpha) difformis ( Motschulsky, 1860 )

Gupta, Devanshu, Ghosh, Priyanka, Wani, Irtiza, Bhunia, Debika, Sonali, Shipra & Kumar, Vivek 2025
2025
Loc

Deloyala difformis

Spaeth, F. & Reitter, E. 1926: 10
Motschulsky, V. 1860: 27
Motschulsky, V. 1860: 27
1860
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