Macrocoma rubripes

Macrocoma rubripes
	Macrocoma rubripes (Schaufuss, 1862) male (16633879489)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Genus:	Macrocoma
Species:	M. rubripes
Binomial name
	Macrocoma rubripes; (Schaufuss, 1862)
Synonyms
	Eubrachis 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:

Macrocoma rubripes rubripes: The nominotypical subspecies. It is distributed in the Balkan Peninsula, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria and the Caucasus. It has also been reported from Saudi Arabia,^[3] Egypt,^[4] Libya,^[5] and Algeria.^[6]
Macrocoma rubripes turkmena Lopatin, 1976: Found in Turkmenistan.

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^ 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.
^ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Saudi Arabia". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
^ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Egypt". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
^ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Libya". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
^ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Libya". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved August 2, 2016.

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