Biology:Mecistes
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Short description: Genus of leaf beetles from Africa
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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: | Bromiini |
| Genus: | Mecistes Chapuis, 1874[1] |
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| Mecistes tarsalis Chapuis, 1874
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Mecistes is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.[2] It is distributed in central and eastern Africa, from the Uele region and Kenya to Namibia, Botswana and the Eastern provinces of the Republic of South Africa, and in Saudi Arabia. It closely resembles the Oriental genus Apolepis.[3]
Species
Species include:[3]
- Mecistes audisioi Zoia, 2009 – South Africa: Transvaal
- Mecistes chapuisi Jacoby, 1900[4] – DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
- Mecistes flavipes (Gerstaecker, 1855)[5] – Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana
- Mecistes grobbelaarae Zoia, 2009 – South Africa: Transvaal
- Mecistes lineatus (Pic, 1921)[6] – central and northern Tanzania
- Mecistes seriatus Lefèvre, 1885[7] – Saudi Arabia, Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa
- Mecistes tarsalis Chapuis, 1874[1] – DR Congo, Namibia (?), Botswana, South Africa
- Mecistes thompsoni Zoia, 2009 – Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa
- Mecistes ziliolii Zoia, 2009 – Namibia, Botswana, South Africa
- Mecistes zimbabweensis Zoia, 2009 – Zimbabwe
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapuis, F. (1874). "Tome dixième. Famille des phytophages". Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Genera des coléoptères. Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. pp. i–iv, 1–455. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9655043.
- ↑ "Mecistes". http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/genere_Mecistes.html.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Zoia, S. (2009). "A revision of the genus Mecistes (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae)". Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 88: 117–154. doi:10.4081/memorieSEI.2009.117. http://www.chrysomelidae.it/Chrysomelidae/pubblicazioni-pdf-scaricabili/63-Zoia2009.pdf.
- ↑ Jacoby, M. (1900). "On new genera and species of Phytophagous Coleoptera from South and Central Africa". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1900: 203–266. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35994461.
- ↑ Zoia, S. (2007). "New data on African Eumolpinae from the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 54 (1): 69–74. doi:10.1002/mmnd.200700006.
- ↑ Zoia, S. (2007). "A revision of the Pachnephorus from the Afrotropical Region (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Fragmenta Entomologica 39 (1): 1–156. doi:10.4081/fe.2007.128. https://www.openaccessrepository.it/record/63124/files/fulltext.pdf.
- ↑ Lefèvre, É. (1885). "Eumolpidarum hucusque cognitarum catalogus, sectionum conspectu systematico, generum sicut et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptionibus adjunctis". Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège. 2 11 (16): 1–172. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27434526.
Wikidata ☰ Q1976844 entry
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