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Cassida inquinata
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Subspecies
Original description
Synonyms
Cassida
plana Charpentier, 1825 (nomen oblitum?)
Cassida inquinata plana Charpentier, 1825
Cassida inquinata Brullé, 1832
Cassida inquinata
inquinata Brullé, 1832
Cassida depressa Suffrian, 1844
Cassida inquinata
depressa Suffrian, 1844
Cassida bohemani Brisout, 1860
Cassida sordida Brisout, 1860
Cassida palaestina Desbrochers, 1891
Cassida ovoidea Fairmaire, 1904
Cassida inquinata tangeriana Pic, 1908
Cassida hexastigma Kismali et Sassi, 1994 (a misidentification)
Identification
Distribution
South-western Europe and northern Africa,
south-eastern Europe and further east to Turkey, Syria and the Caucasus
region. No German record is known to me, but the species is listed for
Germany in the Fauna Europaea Web Service (2004).
Biology
Host plants are species of Asteraceae
(genera Achillea, Anthemis, Artemisia,
Chamaemelum, Matricaria, Ormenis).
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