Platycorynus dejeani
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Chrysomelidae |
Genus: | Platycorynus |
Species: | P. dejeani
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Binomial name | |
Platycorynus dejeani | |
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Platycorynus dejeani is a species of leaf beetle. It was first described by the Italian entomologist Giuseppe Bertoloni from Inhambane, Mozambique in 1849. It occurs widely in sub-Saharan Africa.
Distribution
In East Africa, the species' range extends from Ethiopia down to the former Cape Province in South Africa. The species also occurs in Senegal,[4] the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[5]
Gallery
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on milkweed -
feigning death -
mating pair
References
- ^ Bertoloni, J. (1849). "Illustratio rerum naturalium Mozambici. Dissertatio III. De Coleopteris". Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis. 10: 423–433.
- ^ a b Marshall, T. A. (1864). "Corynodinorum Recensio". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 8 (29): 24–50. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1864.tb02004.x.
- ^ Kuntzen, H. (1913). "Zur Kenntnis der afrikanischen Corynoden (Coleopt. Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Archiv für Naturgeschichte. A. 79 (7): 78–132.
- ^ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Senegal". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
- ^ Selman, B. J. (1973). "Coleoptera from North-East Africa. Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae. (Zoological contribution from the Finnish expeditions to the Sudan No. 34)". Notulae Entomologicae. 53 (4): 159–166.