Omaspides

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Cladus: Phytophaga
Superfamilia: Chrysomeloidea

Familia: Chrysomelidae
Subfamilia: Cassidinae
Tribus: Mesomphaliini
Genus: Omaspides
Subgenera: O. (Omaspides) – O. (Parechoma) – O. (Paromaspides)
Species (42/40): O. abbreviata – O. amazonica – O. andicola – O. augusta – O. basilica – O. bioculata – O. bistriata – O. bivittata – O. boliviana – O. brunneosignata – O. clathrata – O. collecta – O. confusa – O. conjungens – O. convexicollis – O. ellipsigera – O. erichsoni – O. flavofasciata – O. haematidea – O. helleri – O. iheringi – O. limbipennis – O. lunulata – O. marginipennis – O. nattereri – O. nigrolineata – O. nitidicollis – O. pallidipennis – O. picaflorensis – O. pulchella – O. quadrifenestrata – O. scutaria – O. semilineata – O. sobrina – O. specularis – O. squalida – O. tenuicula – O. trichroa – O. tricolorata – O. trifasciata – O. unicolor – O. vexabilis
Name

Omaspides Chevrolat, 1836
Source: Dejean 1836: 371 BHL
Gender: feminine
Type species: Cassida transversa Fabricius, 1798
Fixation: Subsequent designation by Hope 1840: 158

References
Primary references

Chevrolat, L.A.A. 1836. [new taxa]. In: Dejean, P.F.M.A. Catalogue des Coléoptères de la collection de M. le comte Dejean. Deuxième édition. [Livraison 5]. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis Père et Fils. pp. 361–443. BHL. Reference page.

Additional references

Borowiec, L. 2003. Omaspides boliviana sp. nov., with a key to Omaspides s. str. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Genus: 14(3): 397–402. PDF.
Borowiec, L. 2010. Revision of the Omaspides augusta group (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Mesomphaliini). Annales Zoologici 60(4): 481–492. DOI: 10.3161/000345410X550373 Paywall.
Hope, F.W. 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 Also, descriptions of newly discovered and unpublished insects.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.

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