Biology:Allsortsia
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Short description: Genus of leaf beetles from Australia
Allsortsia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
Family: | Chrysomelidae |
Subfamily: | Spilopyrinae |
Genus: | Allsortsia Reid & Beatson, 2010[2] |
Species: | A. maculata
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Binomial name | |
Allsortsia maculata (Lea, 1922)[1]
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Synonyms | |
Macrogonus maculatus Lea, 1922 |
Allsortsia is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Spilopyrinae. It contains only one species, Allsortsia maculata. It is found only in Australia , in the tropical rainforest of north Queensland.
The genus is named after liquorice allsorts, which A. maculata vaguely resembles.
A. maculata is known only from two type specimens collected in 1909 from Kuranda, adjacent to the Wet Tropics.[2]
References
- ↑ Lea, A. M. (1922). "On Australian Coleoptera. Part IV. Family Chrysomelidae". Records of the South Australian Museum 2 (2): 271–308. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13918769.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Reid, C. A. M.; Beatson, M. (2010). "Revision of the Australo-Papuan genus Macrolema Baly (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Spilopyrinae), with description of a new genus". Zootaxa 2486: 1–60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2486.1.1. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/zt02486p060.pdf. (Erratum: doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2520.1.3)
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q58041564 entry