Macrocoma rubripes
Species of beetle
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Macrocoma rubripes is a species of leaf beetle from Europe, Asia and possibly North Africa. It was first described by Ludwig Wilhelm Schaufuss in 1862, as a species of Pseudocolaspis.
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| Macrocoma rubripes | |
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| Macrocoma rubripes (Schaufuss, 1862) male (16633879489) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Macrocoma |
| Species: | M. rubripes |
| Binomial name | |
| Macrocoma rubripes (Schaufuss, 1862) | |
| Synonyms[1][2] | |
Subspecies
There are two subspecies of M. rubripes:
- Macrocoma rubripes rubripes: The nominotypical subspecies. It is distributed in the Balkan Peninsula, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria and the Caucasus. It has also been reported from Saudi Arabia,[3] Egypt,[4] Libya,[5] and Algeria.[6]
- Macrocoma rubripes turkmena Lopatin, 1976: Found in Turkmenistan.
Some authors recognise a third subspecies, Macrocoma rubripes balcanica (Apfelbeck, 1912), distributed in Bulgaria and Northern Dobruja.[7]