Iviva

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Iviva
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Typophorini
Genus: Iviva
Gressitt, 1969 [1]
Type species
Iviva coccinelloides
Gressitt, 1969 [1]

Iviva is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is distributed in New Guinea, and it is named after the type locality of the type species, Lake Iviva (Sirunki), in the Western Highlands province of Papua New Guinea. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Gressitt, J. L. (1969). "Chrysomelid beetles from the Papuan subregion, 6 (Eumolpinae, 4)" (PDF). Pacific Insects . 11 (1): 1–31.
  2. 1 2 3 Medvedev, Lev N. (2009). "New genera and species of Zeugophorinae and Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from New Guinea" (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A, Neue Serie. 2: 371–408.