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Cassida azurea
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Subspecies
Original description
Synonyms
Cassida ornata Creutzer, 1799 (nec Herbst, 1783)
(junior homonym)
Cassida azurea
ornata Creutzer, 1799 (nec Herbst, 1783) (junior homonym)
Cassida azurea
Fabricius, 1801
Mionycha azurea
Fabricius, 1801
Cassida lucida Suffrian, 1844
Cassida azurea lucida Suffrian, 1844
Cassida ornata lucida Suffrian, 1844
Cassida hemisphaerica Maw, 1976 (a misidentification)
Identification
Distribution
Central Europe (recorded from Austria, Hungary,
Germany), Turkey, and a doubtful record from North Africa.
Biology
Host plants are several species of the genera Silene
and Saponaria.
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