Biology:Metriopepla
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Short description: Genus of leaf beetles
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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: | Cassidinae |
| Tribe: | Basiprionotini |
| Genus: | Metriopepla Fairmaire, 1882 |
| Species: | M. inornata
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| Binomial name | |
| Metriopepla inornata (Waterhouse, 1877)
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Metriopepla is a monotypic genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Cassidinae. It contains one species, Metriopepla inornata, that is distributed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa , Tanzania and Zambia.[1]
References
- ↑ Grobbelaar, E.; Chaboo, C. S. (2008). "Metriopepla inornata (Waterhouse) (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae: Basiprionotini): newly recorded from South Africa with biological notes". African Entomology 16 (1): 134–136. doi:10.4001/1021-3589-16.1.134. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/216682304.
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