Callipta

Genus of leaf beetles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Callipta is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains four species, which are distributed in the Caucasus, Central to East Asia and North Africa.[2][3] The genus was originally named Calliope by Julius Weise in 1882; however, as Édouard Lefèvre pointed out, the name "Calliope" had been used a number of times for genera described previously (for instance, the passerine bird genus Calliope Gould, 1836), so it was renamed to Callipta by Lefèvre in 1885.[1]

Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Suborder:Polyphaga
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Callipta
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Bromiini
Genus: Callipta
Lefèvre, 1885[1]
Type species
Calliope fausti
Weise, 1882
Synonyms
  • Calliope Weise, 1882
    (preoccupied)
  • Arachnipta Medvedev, 1957
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