Chrysolina (Chrysolina) banksi (Fabricius)

Petitpierre, Eduard, Sacarés, Antoni & Jurado-Rivera, José A., 2017, Updated checklist of Balearic leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), Zootaxa 4272 (2), pp. 151-177 : 156

Chrysolina (Chrysolina) banksi (Fabricius)

MALLORCA—Alcúdia 15.04.1987, on Plantago sp. ( Plantaginaceae ) ( Whitehead 1993); ibid: S’Albufera 22.06.1984, 2 exx.; Artà 0 9.1991, 4 exx.; Cúber 24.09.1985, 3 exx.; ibid 17.06.1987, 7 exx.; ibid 0 8.11.1989, 4 exx.; Deià: Son Marroig 0 9.10.2016, 1 ex.; Esporles 10.1982, 1 ex.; ibid 11.05.1983, 1 ex.; ibid 27.10.1984, 3 exx.; ibid 0 1.05.1986, 5 exx.; ibid 0 4.04.1987, 2 exx.; ibid 0 2.05.1987, 1 ex.; ibid 10.04.1988, 2 exx.; ibid 10.1990, 1 ex.; ibid 0 3.10.1999, 3 exx.; ibid 15.10.1999, 3 exx.; ibid 0 8.10.2016, 1 ex.; ibid: S’Esgleieta 18.11.1982, 1 ex.; ibid 18.11.1997, 1 ex.; Manacor: Cala Antena 0 8.10.2006, 1 ex.; Palma: Campus UIB 0 5.12.2003, 1 ex.; ibid 0 9.02.2011, 1 ex.; ibid 11.2005, 1 ex.; ibid 15.10.2012, 3 exx.; Palma: Ses Illetes 13.11.1999, 5 exx.; Sant Llorenç des Cardassar: Calicant 18.10.1987, 1 ex.

MENORCA—Barranc de Santa Galdana, 18.10.2002, 1 ex. on Mentha suaveolens Ehrh. (Lamiaceae); Far de Na Cati 0 2.05.2014, 1 ex.; S’Algaiarens 0 3.05.2013, 3 exx.

EIVISSA—Eivissa: Sa Sal Rossa 15.04.1991, 1 ex. (leg. G. Pons); Santa Eulària : punta Arabí 13.07.1965, 1 ex.; Talamanca : marismes 0 7.07.1965, 5 exx. ( Compte 1966). Bechyné (1950) has proposed a new subspecies, Ch. banksi ibizensis , for the small specimens of this island, a taxon that is not justified to us.

Most adult individuals on Lamiaceae but some of them also on Asteraceae or Plantaginaceae plants.