Coptocycla (s. str.) undecimpunctata (Fabricius, 1781)

Sekerka, Lukáš, 2020, Commented catalogue of Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, with remarks on the collection of Jaro Mráz in the National Museum in Prague, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 60 (2), pp. 667-707 : 701

Coptocycla (s. str.) undecimpunctata

(Fabricius, 1781) ( Cassidini )

Published record. ‘S. Paulo’ (SඉൺൾඍΗ 1914).

Distribution. Brazil (Amapá, Pará) and French Guiana.

Remarks. In the Coleopterorum Catalogus, SඉൺൾඍΗ (1914) stated the distribution of C. undecimpunctata as ‘Cayenne, S. Paulo’. At his time, the species was well known from French Guiana but there was no published record from São Paulo and no other record exists. It is impossible to find out whether this was a simple mistake or Spaeth had some material from São Paulo and published the record in Coleopterorum Catalogus, which is, however, very unusual as Spaeth did not publish faunistic records unless it was a report from some expedition. On the other hand, the specimen reported here as C. stigma was identified by Spaeth as ‘ C. undecimpunctata var.’, thus he might have some other specimens. Also, it is possible that the locality does not refer to the state of São Paulo but to the municipality of São Paulo de Olivença, where C. undecimpunctata could theoretically occur. The species is known only from the eastern part of the Guiana shield and its occurrence in the state of São Paulo is very improbable.