Meristata

Meristata
Meristata spilota
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Tribe: Hylaspini
Genus: Meristata
Strand, 1935
Type species
Galleruca sexmaculata
Synonyms

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.

Species in the genus include:

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

References

  1. 1 2 Beenen, R. (2010). "Galerucinae Latreille, 1802". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 443–491. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2.
  2. ↑ Silfverberg, Hans (1990). "Records of Galerucinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from the lndian subcontinent. Part 1". Entomologica Fennica. 1 (4): 201–207. doi:10.33338/ef.83486. S2CID 82491729.
  3. ↑ Kimoto, Shinsaku (2005). "Systematic Catalog of the Chrysomelidae(Coleoptera) from Nepal and Bhutan" (PDF). Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A. 3: 13–114.
  4. ↑ Bezděk, J. (2012). "Taxonomic and faunistic notes on Oriental and Palaearctic Galerucinae and Cryptocephalinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Genus. 23 (3): 375–418.
  5. ↑ Bezděk, J.; Nie, R-E. (2019). "Taxonomical changes and new records of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from eastern Palaearctic and Oriental Regions". Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology. 22 (3): 655–665. doi:10.1016/j.aspen.2019.05.002. S2CID 155530357.