Biology:Lucignolo capensis
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Short description: Species of leaf beetle from South Africa
| Lucignolo capensis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumolpinae |
| Tribe: | Euryopini |
| Genus: | Lucignolo Zoia, 2010[2] |
| Species: | L. capensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Lucignolo capensis (Lefèvre, 1890)[1]
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| Synonyms | |
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Trichostola capensis Lefèvre, 1890 | |
Lucignolo capensis is a species of leaf beetle endemic to South Africa , and the only member of the genus Lucignolo.[3] It was first described by Édouard Lefèvre in 1890 as a species of the genus Trichostola. It was later found to be closely related to Odontionopa, and was placed in its own genus by Stefano Zoia in 2010.[2]
The genus is named after Lucignolo (or "Candlewick"), a character from Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio. This name refers to the shiny, delicate body of L. capensis. [2]
References
- ↑ Lefèvre, E. (1889). "Description of new species of South African Eumolpidae". Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 6 (1): 39–43. doi:10.1080/21560382.1889.9526253. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/partpdf/175378.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Zoia, S. (2010). "New data on African Eumolpinae from the collections of the Naturhistorisches Museum in Basel (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)". Entomologica Basiliensia et Collectionis Frey 32: 323–341. http://www.chrysomelidae.it/Chrysomelidae/pubblicazioni-pdf-scaricabili/Zoia2010a.pdf.
- ↑ "Lucignolo". http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/genere_Lucignolo.html.
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