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Basiprionota sexmaculata

Description

Basiprionota sexmaculata (Boheman, 1850) (Fig. 3G)

Prioptera sexmaculata Boheman, 1850:49. Prioptera maculipennis Boheman, 1850:50. Prioptera punctipennis Wagener, 1877:59. Prioptera rugosa Baly, 1863:8, 13. Prioptera maculipennis ssp. reducta Gressitt, 1938:185.

Material examined. 1 spec., India, Assam, Lusai Hills, 16.ix.1960, leg. F. Schmid (931/H4A). 1 spec., India, Arunachal Pradesh, Kameng, N.E.F.A., 21.v.1961, leg. K.C. Jairamkrishnan (2428/H4A). 1 spec., India, Meghalaya, Tura, 1200-1500 ft., Garo Hills, 07.viii.1917, leg. S.W. Kemp (6811/H4A).

Distribution in India. Assam (Mangadalai Hills, Lushai Hills, Umrongso – Boheman, 1850; Spaeth, 1914c; Maulik, 1919; Vazirani, 1972; Borowiec, 2001); Arunachal Pradesh (Kameng – Vazirani, 1972); Meghalaya (Garo Hills, Tura – Kimoto, 1981; Basu, 2000a; Borowiec, 2001); West Bengal (Kolkata “Calcutta”, Buxa Tiger Reserve – Boheman, 1850; Maulik, 1919; Raychaudhuri & Saha, 2014; Saha & Raychaudhuri, 1997; Darjeeling: Sekerka & Świętojańska, 2024).

General distribution. Oriental (India, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam) and Palaearctic (Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan) (Borowiec, 1999, 2009; Borowiec & Świętojańska, 2024; Sekerka & Świętojańska, 2024).

Remarks. Spaeth (1914c) as P. maculipennis and P. sexmaculata; Maulik (1919) as P. punctipennis; Raychaudhuri & Saha (2014) as B. maculipennis.

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 543-600 in Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 11 (3) on page 551, DOI: 10.61186/jibs.11.3.543, http://zenodo.org/record/17025017

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