Biology:Menippus (beetle)
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Short description: Genus of 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: | Galerucinae |
| Tribe: | Galerucini |
| Genus: | Menippus Clark, 1864 |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Issikia Chûjô, 1961 | |
Menippus is a genus of leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae).[2]
Habitat and Environment
This leaf beetle is mostly found in Australia, depending on the stringybark eucalyptus tree for food. The trees are also used to harbor eggs for future larvae.
Species
Menippus contains the following species:[3][4][1][5]
- Menippus aeneipennis Weise, 1892
- Menippus asahinai (Chûjô, 1962)
- Menippus beeneni Lee, Bezděk & Suenaga, 2012
- Menippus brevicornis (Jacoby, 1889)
- Menippus cervinus (Hope, 1831) (synonym: Menippus canellinus Fairmaire, 1889)
- Menippus clarki Jacoby, 1884
- Menippus cynicus Clark, 1864
- Menippus darcyi Reid & Nally, 2008
- Menippus dimidiaticornis (Jacoby, 1889)
- Menippus doeberli Suenaga, Lee & Bezděk, 2017
- Menippus ewani Reid & Nally, 2008
- Menippus fugitivus (Lea, 1926)
- Menippus gressitti Lee, Bezděk & Suenaga, 2012
- Menippus hsuehleeae Lee, Bezděk & Suenaga, 2012
- Menippus inconspicua (Jacoby, 1894)
- Menippus issikii (Chûjô, 1961)
- Menippus laterimaculata (Jacoby, 1886)
- Menippus marginipennis (Jacoby, 1894)
- Menippus metallicus Baly, 1886
- Menippus murzini Lee, Bezděk & Suenaga, 2012
- Menippus nepalensis Lee, Bezděk & Suenaga, 2012
- Menippus nigrocoeruleus Jacoby, 1886
- Menippus philippinensis Jacoby, 1894
- Menippus sakishimanus Suenaga, Lee & Bezděk, 2017
- Menippus sericea (Weise, 1889)
- Menippus sufi Reid & Nally, 2008
- Menippus viridis Duvivier, 1884
- Menippus yulensis (Jacoby, 1896)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lee, C.-F.; Bezděk, J.; Suenaga, H. (2012). "Revision of Menippus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) of Taiwan and Menippus dimidiaticornis species group with a new generic synonymy". Zootaxa 3427: 1–16. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3427.1.1.
- ↑ Galerucinae in Synopsis of the described Coleoptera of the World 13 december 2008
- ↑ Reid, C.A.M.; Nally, S.C. (2008). "Revision of the genus Menippus Clark in Australia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae)". Australian Journal of Entomology 47 (2): 87–101. doi:10.1111/j.1440-6055.2008.00634.x.
- ↑ Beenen, R. (2010). "Galerucinae Latreille, 1802". in Löbl, I.; Smetana, A.. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 443–491. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=qt8zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA451.
- ↑ Suenaga, H.; Lee, C.-F.; Bezděk, J. (2017). "Two new species of the genus Menippus Clark (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) from islands of Ryukyu-rettô, Japan, and redescription of M. issikii (Chûjô)". Entomologische Blätter und Coleoptera 113 (1): 231–240. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322232260.
Wikidata ☰ Q2185065 entry
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