Biology:Keeta
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Short description: Genus of leaf beetles from the Seychelles
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumolpinae |
| Tribe: | Typophorini |
| Genus: | Keeta Maulik, 1931[1] |
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| Keeta aldabrana Maulik, 1931[1]
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Keeta is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.[2][3] It contains two species endemic to the Aldabra atoll in the Seychelles. The genus and both species were described by the Indian entomologist Samarendra Maulik, from specimens collected by the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1908. The generic name comes from the Sanskrit word कीट (kīṭa), meaning "insect".[1]
Species
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Maulik, S. (1931). "Coleoptera, Chrysomelidæ: Eumolpinæ, Galerucinæ and Halticinæ". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2, Zoology 19 (2): 241–260. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1931.tb00128.x.
- ↑ "Keeta". http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/genere_Keeta.html.
- ↑ Gerlach, Justin (2009). The Coleoptera of the Seychelles islands. Bulgaria: Pensoft Publishers. ISBN 978-954-642-498-3.
Wikidata ☰ Q55839603 entry
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