Afroeurydemus

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Suborder:Polyphaga
Afroeurydemus
Afroeurydemus sp.; Ivory Coast
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Typophorini
Genus: Afroeurydemus
Selman, 1965[1]
Type species
Eurydemus geniculatus
(= Eurydemus nubiensis Harold, 1877)
Jacoby, 1904[2]

Afroeurydemus is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae, found in Africa.[3][4] The genus was separated from Eurydemus in 1965 by Brian J. Selman, who moved all African species of Eurydemus he had seen to this genus or related African genera and considered it likely that Eurydemus was restricted to Fiji. Many species were also originally placed in Syagrus.[1]

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