Macrocoma rubripes

Macrocoma rubripes
Macrocoma rubripes male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Macrocoma
Species:
M. rubripes
Binomial name
Macrocoma rubripes
(Schaufuss, 1862)
Synonyms
  • Eubrachys balcanicus Apfelbeck, 1912
  • Pachnephorus aeneus Walker, 1871
  • ?Pseudocolaspis anatolica Pic, 1898
  • Pseudocolaspis diversicolor Schaufuss, 1871
  • Pseudocolaspis graeca Lefèvre, 1876
  • Pseudocolaspis rubripes Schaufuss, 1862

Macrocoma rubripes is a species of leaf beetle from Europe, Asia and possibly North Africa. It was first described by Ludwig Wilhelm Schaufuss in 1862, as a species of Pseudocolaspis.

Subspecies

There are two subspecies of M. rubripes:

Some authors recognise a third subspecies, Macrocoma rubripes balcanica (Apfelbeck, 1912), distributed in Bulgaria and Northern Dobruja.

References

  1. ↑ Warchałowski, A. (2001). "A preliminary review of Western Palaearctic Macrocoma Chevrolat, 1837 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae)" (PDF). Genus. 12 (4): 449–477.
  2. ↑ Moseyko, A. G.; Sprecher-Uebersax, E. (2010). "Eumolpinae". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 619–643. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2.
  3. ↑ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Saudi Arabia". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Egypt". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
  5. ↑ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Libya". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
  6. ↑ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Libya". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  7. ↑ Gruev, B.; Tomov, V. (2007). Zoocartographia Bulcanica. Volume 3. Distributional Atlas & Catalogue of the Leaf Beetles of Bulgaria: (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Sofia–Moscow: Pensoft Publishers. p. 79. ISBN 978-95-46422-71-2.