Basiprionota sexmaculata
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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.
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Biodiversity
- Event date
- 1917-08-07 , 1960-09-16 , 1961-05-21
- Verbatim event date
- 1917-08-07 , 1960-09-16 , 1961-05-21
- Scientific name authorship
- Boheman
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Genus
- Basiprionota
- Species
- sexmaculata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Basiprionota sexmaculata (Boheman, 1850) sec. Gupta, Ghosh, Wani, Bhunia, Sonali & Kumar, 2025
References
- Boheman, C. H. (1850) Monographia Cassididarum. Tomus Primus. Ex Officina Norstedtiana, Holmiae, 452 p. + 4 tab. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8973
- Wagener, B. (1877) Cassididae. Mitteilungen der Munchner Entomologischen, 1, 49-79.
- Baly, J. S. (1863) Descriptions of new species of Cassididae, together with a list of all species belonging to the same family collected by the late M. Mouhot in Siam and Cambodia. Journal of Entomology, 2, 6-14.
- Gressitt, J. L. (1938) Some tortoise beetles from Hainan Island (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Lingnan Science Journal, 17, 185-193.
- Spaeth, F. (1914 c) Chrysomelidae: 16. Cassidinae. In: Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (eds) Coleopterorum Catalogus. Pars 62, W. Junk, Berlin, pp. 1-182.
- Maulik, S. (1919) The Fauna of British India. Coleoptera. Chrysomelidae (Hispinae and Cassidinae) Coleoptera. Chrysomelidae. (Hispinae & Cassidinae). Taylor & Francis, London. 439 p.
- Vazirani, T. G. (1972) Notes on collection of Hispinae and Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from N. E. India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 66, 143-152.
- Kimoto, S. (1981) Notes on the Chrysomelidae from Taiwan, China. X. Entomological Review of Japan, 36, 1-4.
- Basu, C. R. (2000 a) Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae. In: Alfred, J. R. B. (ed.) Fauna of Meghalaya. State Fauna Series 4: Part 5. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, pp. 235-381.
- Raychaudhuri, D. & Saha, S. (2014) Atlas of Insects and Spiders of Buxa Tiger Reserve. Nature Books India, Kolkata, 357 p.
- Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (1997) Tortoise beetles (Cassidinae) of Buxa Tiger Reserve, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal. Insect Environment, 2 (4), 129-130.
- Sekerka, L. & Swietojanska, J. (2024) Cassidinae. In: Bezdek, J. & Sekerka, L. (eds) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Vol. 6 / 2 / 1, Chrysomeloidea II (Orsodacnidae, Megalopodidae, Chrysomelidae). Brill, Leiden-Boston, pp. 233-272.
- Borowiec, L. & Swietojanska, J. (2024) Cassidinae of the World - An Interactive Manual (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Available from: https://www.cassidae.uni.wroc.pl/katalog%20internetowy/index.htm [Accessed September 23, 2024]