Macrocoma

Genus of leaf beetles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Macrocoma is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains about 100 species, which are found in tropical Africa, around the Mediterranean, on the Canary Islands, in western and central Asia, and in India.[5][6][7]

Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Suborder:Polyphaga
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Macrocoma
Macrocoma rubripes (Schaufuss, 1862)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Bromiini
Genus: Macrocoma
Chapuis, 1874[1]
Type species
Macrocoma eriophora
Synonyms[2][3]
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Macrocoma is closely related to the African genus Pseudocolaspis, and has sometimes been treated as a junior synonym of it historically. The two genera are distinguished by the exposure of the pygidium and the shape of the anterior edges of the prosternum: in Macrocoma, the pygidium is covered by the elytra and the anterior edges of the prosternum are flat, while in Pseudocolaspis, the pygidium is more than half-exposed and the anterior edges of the prosternum are convex.[2] Currently, several species are not arranged according to these characters.[8]

Species

Species include:[9]

Renamed species:

  • M. impressa (Berti & Rapilly, 1973) nec Achard, 1925: renamed to M. bertiae Moseyko, 2013[14]

Synonyms:

  • M. hormuziaca Warchałowski, 2001: synonym of M. zarudnii Lopatin, 1985[32]

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