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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
Genus: Aspidimorpha
Subgenera: A. (Afroaspidimorpha) - A. (Aspidimorpha) - A. (Aspidocassis) - A. (Dianaspis) - A. (Megaspidomorpha) - A. (Neoaspidimorpha) - A. (Semiaspidimorpha) - A. (Spaethia) - A. (Spaethiomorpha) - A. (Weiseocassis)

Name

Aspidimorpha Hope, 1840: 158

Type species: Cassida miliaris Fabricius, 1775, by original designation.
Synonyms

Aspidomorpha: Agassiz, 1846: 16 (unjustified emendation)

Aspidimorpha sanctaecrucis - Golden Tortoise Beetle 02

Aspidimorpha sanctaecrucis

References
Primary references

Agassiz J.L.R. & Erichson, W.F. 1846. Nomina systematica generum coleopterorum, tam viventium quam fossilium. Jent & Gassmann. Solothurn: 1–170. BHL
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 Also, descriptions of newly discovered and unpublished insects.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.

Additional references

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.
Borowiec, L. & Sekerka, L. 2010. Aspidimorpha (s. str.) karamojana, a new species from Central Africa (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Genus 21(2): 271–277. PDF.

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Subfamily Cassidinae (Chrysomelidae) - atlas of leaf beetles of Russia
Genus: Aspidimorpha Hope, 1840

Aspidomorpha miliaris (Fabricius, 1775)

Aspidomorpha miliaris.

Aspidimorpha is a large Old World genus of beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae; there are some 200 species. The genus name is frequently misspelled as "Aspidomorpha", due to an unjustified spelling change in 1848.[1]
Selected species

Aspidimorpha adhaerens
Aspidimorpha amabilis
Aspidimorpha amplissima
Aspidimorpha apicalis
Aspidimorpha areata
Aspidimorpha aruwimiensis
Aspidimorpha assimilis
Aspidimorpha aurata
Aspidimorpha australasiae
Aspidimorpha bimaculata
Aspidimorpha castula
Aspidimorpha chlorina
Aspidimorpha chlorotica
Aspidimorpha cincta
Aspidimorpha confinis
Aspidimorpha cordigera
Aspidimorpha deusta
Aspidimorpha diaphana
Aspidimorpha difformis
Aspidimorpha dilecta
Aspidimorpha dissentanea
Aspidimorpha dorsata
Aspidimorpha douei
Aspidimorpha dulcicula
Aspidimorpha elevata
Aspidimorpha fenestrata
Aspidimorpha fragilis
Aspidimorpha furcata
Aspidimorpha fusconotata
Aspidimorpha fuscopunctata
Aspidimorpha gorhami
Aspidimorpha gruevi
Aspidimorpha guerini
Aspidimorpha honesta
Aspidimorpha impicta
Aspidimorpha indica
Aspidimorpha inquinata
Aspidimorpha lateralis
Aspidimorpha madagascarica
Aspidimorpha miliaris
Aspidimorpha mutata
Aspidimorpha mutilata
Aspidimorpha nigromaculata
Aspidimorpha novaguineensis
Aspidimorpha obovata
Aspidimorpha prasina
Aspidimorpha puncticosta
Aspidimorpha punctum
Aspidimorpha quadrimaculata
Aspidimorpha quadriradiata
Aspidimorpha quadriramosa
Aspidimorpha quinquefasciata
Aspidimorpha quinqueguttulata
Aspidimorpha rainoni
Aspidimorpha sanctaecrucis
Aspidimorpha sellata
Aspidimorpha silacea
Aspidimorpha socia
Aspidimorpha strigosa
Aspidimorpha sumatrana
Aspidimorpha tecta
Aspidimorpha togata
Aspidimorpha tortuosa
Aspidimorpha transparipennis
Aspidimorpha vernicata
Aspidimorpha westwoodi

(Incomplete list)
Notes

"Aspidimorpha Hope1840". Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer (UBIO). Retrieved 27 December 2017.

References
Borowiec, Lech; Świętojańska, Jolanta. "Genus: Aspidimorpha Hope, 1840". Cassidinae of the world - an interactive manual. Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wroclaw.
"Aspidimorpha Hope, 1840". BioLib.

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