Biology:Meristata

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Short description: Genus of beetles

Meristata
Meristata trifasciata.jpg
Meristata spilota
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Genus: Meristata
Strand, 1935
Type species
Galleruca sexmaculata
Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844
Synonyms[1]

Merista Chapuis, 1874 (preoccupied)

Meristata is a genus of Asian leaf beetles in the subfamily Galerucinae. Most of the species in the genus are found along the Himalayas in the China and the Indian Subcontinent.[2]

Species in the genus include:[3][1]

  • Meristata dohrnii (Baly, 1861)
  • Meristata elongata (Jacoby, 1898)
  • Meristata fallax (Harold, 1880)
  • Meristata fraternalis (Baly, 1879)
  • Meristata pulunini (Bryant, 1952)
  • Meristata quadrifasciata (Hope, 1831)
  • Meristata sexmaculata (Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844)
  • Meristata spilota (Hope, 1831) (synonym: Meristata trifasciata (Hope, 1831))

The species Meristata jayarami (Vazirani, 1970) was moved to the genus Leptarthra,[4] and the species Meristata maculata (Bryant, 1954) was moved to the genus Paraspitiella.[5]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q1944402 entry