Mecistes seriatus
Appearance
Mecistes seriatus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Chrysomelidae |
Genus: | Mecistes |
Species: | M. seriatus
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Binomial name | |
Mecistes seriatus | |
Synonyms[2] | |
Mecistes saudica Medvedev, 1997 |
Mecistes seriatus is a species of leaf beetle found in Saudi Arabia,[3] Mozambique, Eswatini and South Africa.[2] It was first described by the French entomologist Édouard Lefèvre in 1885.
References
[edit]- ^ Lefèvre, É. (1885). "Eumolpidarum hucusque cognitarum catalogus, sectionum conspectu systematico, generum sicut et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptionibus adjunctis". Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège. 2. 11 (16): 1–172.
- ^ a b Zoia, S. (2009). "A revision of the genus Mecistes (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana. 88: 117–154. doi:10.4081/memorieSEI.2009.117.
- ^ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Saudi Arabia". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved July 28, 2016.