Aspidimorphini

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Cladus: Phytophaga
Superfamilia: Chrysomeloidea

Familia: Chrysomelidae
Subfamilia: Cassidinae
Tribus: Aspidimorphini
Genera: Aspidimorpha – Conchyloctenia – Hybosinota – Laccoptera – Mahatsinia – Nilgiraspis
Name

Aspidimorphini Chapuis, 1875

Type genus: Aspidimorpha Hope, 1840.
Synonyms

Aspidimorphites Chapuis, 1875: 406.
Aspidormophitae [sic]: Spaeth, 1914 f: 129.
Aspidomorphini: Hincks, 1952: 336
Aspidimorphini: Borowiec, 1994: 42, 1997: 5.

References
Primary references

Chapuis, F. 1875. Tome onzième. Famille des phytophages. In: Lacordaire, J.T. & Chapuis, F. (eds) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Genera des coléoptères, ou exposé méthodique et critique de tous les genres proposés jusqu'ici dans cet ordre d'insectes. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 420 pp. BHL. Reference page.
Borowiec, L. 1994. A monograph of the Afrotropical Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Part I. Introduction, morphology, key to the genera, and reviews of the tribes Epistictinini, Basiprionotini and Aspidimorphini (except the genus Aspidimorpha). Genus. Supplement Vol. 2. Biologica Silesiae, Wrocław, 276 pp. PDF.
Borowiec, L. 1997. A monograph of the Afrotropical Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Part II. Revision of the tribe Aspidimorphini 2, the genus Aspidimorpha Hope. Genus Supplement Vol. 8. Biologica Silesiae, Wrocław, 596 pp. PDF.

Additional references

Borowiec, L. 2010b. Laccoptera (Orphnodella) obscuromaculata, a new species from Central Africa (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Genus 21(2): 287–292. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Links

Subfamily Cassidinae (Chrysomelidae) - atlas of leaf beetles of Russia
Tribe: Aspidimorphini Chapuis, 1875