Heteraspis albidovittata

Heteraspis albidovittata
Heteraspis albidovittata, Zimbabwe
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Genus:	Heteraspis
Species:	H. albidovittata
Binomial name
Heteraspis albidovittata (Baly, 1877) [1]
Synonyms
Scelodonta albidovittata Baly, 1877

Heteraspis albidovittata is a species of leaf beetle from Namibia, Tanzania, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, described by Joseph Sugar Baly in 1877. ^[2]

Subspecies

There are two subspecies of H. albidovittata:

• Heteraspis albidovittata albidovittata(Baly, 1877): The nominotypical subspecies. Found in Namibia, Tanzania, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ^[3]
• Heteraspis albidovittata ruandensis(Burgeon, 1941): Found in Rwanda.

References

1. Baly, J. S. (1877). "Descriptions of new species of phytophagous beetles belonging to the family Eumolpidae; and a monograph of the genus Eumolpus". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London . 1877 (1): 37–56.
2. Selman, B. J. (1973). "Coleoptera from North-East Africa. Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae. (Zoological contribution from the Finnish expeditions to the Sudan No. 34)". Notulae Entomologicae. 53 (4): 159–166.
3. "African Eumolpinae checklist: Dem. Rep. Congo". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved July 27, 2016.