Biology:Malegia

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Short description: Genus of leaf beetles from Africa

Malegia
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Bromiini
Genus: Malegia
Lefèvre, 1883[1]
Type species
Malegia letourneuxi[2]
Lefèvre, 1883

Malegia is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.[3] It is known from Africa, Asia and the Caucasus.[2][4]

Species

  • Malegia affinis Jacoby, 1898[5]
  • Malegia alluaudi Pic, 1903
  • Malegia arabica Daccordi, 1979
  • Malegia asiatica Pic, 1894
  • Malegia atritarsis Pic, 1931
  • Malegia bicoloripes Pic, 1936
  • Malegia colchica Reitter, 1912
  • Malegia contracta (Fairmaire, 1886)
  • Malegia hauseri Pic, 1902
  • Malegia laticollis Pic, 1921
  • Malegia latipennis Pic, 1901
  • Malegia letourneuxi Lefèvre, 1883[1]
  • Malegia maculata Pic, 1909
  • Malegia nigritarsis Pic, 1950
  • Malegia obscurella Lefèvre, 1883[1]
  • Malegia olivacea Pic, 1941
  • Malegia pallidipes Pic, 1904
  • Malegia robusta Achard, 1914[6]
  • Malegia striatula Lefèvre, 1883[1]
  • Malegia vadoni Pic, 1950


Species moved to other genera:[7][8]

  • Malegia aenea (Chen, 1940):[4] moved to Lahejia
  • Malegia brunnea Tan, 1992: moved to Trichotheca
  • Malegia jacobsoni Sumakow, 1901: moved to Lahejia

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lefèvre, E. (1883). "Description d'un nouveau genre de Coléoptères de la famille des Eumolpides". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 6 3: CXV–CXVI. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32549119. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Moseyko, A. G.; Sprecher-Uebersax, E. (2010). "Eumolpinae". Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 619–643. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=qt8zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA620. 
  3. "Malegia". http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/genere_Malegia.html. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Kimoto, S.; Gressitt, J. L. (1982). "Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. III. Eumolpinae". Esakia 18: 1–141. doi:10.5109/2421. https://catalog.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/opac_download_md/2421/1.pdf. 
  5. Jacoby, M. (1898). "Additions to the knowledge of the Phytophagous Coleoptera of Africa. Part I". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1898: 212–242. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30952543. 
  6. Achard, J. (1914). "Eumolpides nouveaux d'Afrique tropicale". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1914: 227–231. doi:10.3406/bsef.1914.25559. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8246835. 
  7. Moseyko, A. G.; Sprecher-Uebersax, E. (2010). "New nomenclatural and taxonomic acts, and comments. Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae". Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 80–83. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=qt8zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA80. 
  8. Moseyko, A.G. (2020). "Notes on Asiatic Eumolpinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)". Entomological Review 100 (6): 843–862. 15 January 2021. doi:10.1134/S0013873820060123. 

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