Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker.
Macrocoma
| Macrocoma | |
|---|---|
_male_(16633879489).png)
| |
| Macrocoma rubripes (Schaufuss, 1862) | |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumolpinae |
| Tribe: | Bromiini |
| Genus: | Macrocoma Chapuis, 1874[1] |
| Type species | |
| Macrocoma eriophora | |
| Synonyms[2][3] | |
| |
Macrocoma is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains about 100 species, which are found in tropical Africa, around the Mediterranean, on the Canary Islands, in western and central Asia, and in India.[5][6][7]
Macrocoma is closely related to the African genus Pseudocolaspis, and has sometimes been treated as a junior synonym of it historically. The two genera are distinguished by the exposure of the pygidium and the shape of the anterior edges of the prosternum: in Macrocoma, the pygidium is covered by the elytra and the anterior edges of the prosternum are flat, while in Pseudocolaspis, the pygidium is more than half-exposed and the anterior edges of the prosternum are convex.[2] Currently, several species are not arranged according to these characters.[8]
- ^ a b Chapuis, F. (1874). "Tome dixième. Famille des phytophages". In Lacordaire, J.T.; Chapuis, F. (eds.). Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Genera des coléoptères. Vol. 10. Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. pp. i–iv, 1–455.
- ^ a b Selman, B.J. (1963). "A reappraisal of the status of the genus Eubrachis (Eumolpidae, Coleoptera), together with a key to the related genera". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 13. 6 (70): 637–639. doi:10.1080/00222936308651409.
- ^ Moseyko, A. G.; Sprecher-Uebersax, E. (2010). "New nomenclatural and taxonomic acts, and comments. Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 80–83. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2.
- ^ Baly, J. S. (1878). "Description of New Species and Genera of Eumolpidæ" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 14 (75): 246–265. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1878.tb01834.x.
- ^ "Macrocoma Chapuis, 1874". Fauna Europaea. 2015. Archived from the original on March 16, 2017. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
- ^ "Macrocoma". African Eumolpinae site. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
- ^ Moseyko, A. G.; Sprecher-Uebersax, E. (2010). "Eumolpinae". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 619–643. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2.
- ^ Zoia, S. (2012). "Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Socotra Island" (PDF). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 52 (supplementum 2): 449–501.
Previous Page Next Page
