Micromolpus
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| Micromolpus | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumolpinae |
| Tribe: | Typophorini |
| Genus: | Micromolpus Gressitt, 1969[1] |
| Type species | |
| Micromolpus dodonaeae | |
Micromolpus is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed in New Guinea, New Ireland and questionably New Britain. It resembles the genus Rhyparida, but differs from it by being minute in size, lacking a "Y"-shaped suture on the frontoclypeus (a combined frons and clypeus, making up part of the face), having a constricted vertex (top of the head), and having a strongly convex pronotum, and being strongly punctured only along borders. The name of the genus refers to "a small eumolpine beetle".[1]