Polychalca punctatissima

Familia: Chrysomelidae
Subfamilia: Cassidinae
Tribus: Omocerini
Genus: Polychalca
Subgenus: Polychalca (Polychalca)
Species:

Polychalca punctatissima (Wolf, 1818)

Type locality: Brazil (?)

Typus: Holotype [?]

• Cassida punctatissima Wolf, 1818: 81, figs. 2 & 3.
• Polychalca punctatissima (Wolf, 1818): Blackwelder, 1946: 735
• Polychalca (s. str.) punctatissima (Wolf, 1818); Viana, 1964: 80
• Cassida variolosa Weber, 1801: 50; Fabricius, 1801: 407. [nec Cassida variolosa Olivier, 1790] syn. pre. Blackwelder, 1946: 735
• Polychalca variolosa (Weber, 1801); Dejean, 1837: 392
• Desmonota variolosa (Weber, 1801); Hope, 1839: 91
• Desmonota (Pilidionota) variolosa (Weber, 1801); Spaeth, 1913: 128
• Cassida smaragdina Vigors, 1826: 240 [syn. Boheman (1856: 22)]
• Canistra formosa Broun, 1880: 639 [syn. Miller (1969: 23), also stated as n.syn in Borowiec, 1999: 58]

• Broun, T. 1880. Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera. Part 1. Pp. 1–651. Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department, Wellington. BHL Reference page. 
• Miller, D. 1969. Notes and records. New Zealand Entomologist 4(2): 23–25. PDF Reference page. 
• Hope, F.W. 1841 ("1840"). The coleopterist's manual, part the third, containing various families, genera, and species, of beetles, recorded by Linneus and Fabricius. Also, descriptions of newly discovered and unpublished insects. London : J.C. Bridgewater and Bowdery & Kerby. 191 pp. + 3 pls. BHL Reference page. 
• Weber, F. 1801. Observationes entomologicae, continentes novorum quae condidit generum characteres, et nuper detectarum specierum descriptiones. Impensis Bibliopolii Academici Novi, Kiliae. xii + 116 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Wolf, J. 1818. Abbildungen und Beschreibungen merkwürdiger naturgeschichtlicher Gegenstände. Nürnberg, 2 vol.+36 Taf. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.106847 BHL Reference page. 

• Borowiec, L. 1999. A world catalogue of the Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Biologica Silesiae, Wrocław, 476 pp. ResearchGate-PDF Reference page. 
• Blackwelder, R.E. 1946. Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America. Part 4. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 185: i–iii, 551–763. DOI: 10.5479/si.03629236.185.4 hdl: 10088/21281 BHL Reference page. 
• Fabricius, J.C. 1801. Systema eleutheratorum secundum ordines, genera, species: adiectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tomus I. Impensis bibliopoli academici novi, Kiliae, 506 pp. Online. Reference page. 

• Polychalca (s. str.) punctatissima (Wolf, 1818)

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