Omocerus (Omocerus) taurus (Fabricius)

Chaboo, C. S. & Borowiec, L., 2003, Annotated Checklist of Tortoise Beetles of Trinidad and Tobago (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 57 (1), pp. 71-78 : 72

Omocerus (Omocerus) taurus (Fabricius) .

Trinidad: (1, USNM); coll. Wells (2, USNM); coll. F.W. Urich (1 AMNH); ex black sage [ Cordia globosa (Jacq.) Kunth , Boraginaceae ], 20.VII.1910, coll. F.W. Urich (1, AMNH); Arima Valley , 28.V.1951, no collector (1, AMNH); [Port of Spain] Botanic Gardens , 3.VI.1905, coll. W. Leslie (1, USNM); Carenage , 14.X.1918, coll. H. Morrison, (1, USNM); D’ Abadie, 15.X.1918, coll. H. Morrison (3, USNM); Palo Seco , 20.X.1918, coll. H. Morrison, (1, USNM); Port of Spain, BWI , 12.VII. 1927, no collector (1, CUIC); St. Augustine, 31.VII.1944, coll. I.E. Kirby, ex Cordia sp. [ Boraginaceae ] (4, USNM); Piarco, I.1954, coll. N.L.H. Krauss (1, USNM); Maracas Valley, 12.X.1931, coll. M. Kisliuk Jr., ex Cordia cylindrostachia [misspelled; 5 C. cylindrostachya (Ruiz & Pav.) Roem. and Schult. ] (4, USNM); Maracas , 1–15.VII.1962, coll. J. Maldonado; Piarco, 23.XI.1963, coll. P. Wygodzinsky (4, AMNH); 5mi E. Piarco, 16.II.1964, coll. J.G. Rozen (1, AMNH); St. Augustine , 1954, coll. N.L.H. Krauss (1, USNM); Arima Valley, Simla Res. Station , 25.VI–29.VII.1982, colls. J.M. Carpenter and J.S. Edgerly (1, CUIC). Borowiec (1996) provided additional localities. The label data of C. globosa , C. cylindrostachya and Cordia sp. represent the first host plant records for this subgenus and species. Host records, including Cordia , are known for only two of the 33 species in the genus ( Flowers and Janzen 1997; Borowiec 1999).