Mecistes

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Mecistes
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Bromiini
Genus: Mecistes
Chapuis, 1874 [1]
Type species
Mecistes tarsalis
Chapuis, 1874

Mecistes is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. [2] It is distributed in central and eastern Africa, from the Uele region and Kenya to Namibia, Botswana and the Eastern provinces of the Republic of South Africa, and in Saudi Arabia. It closely resembles the Oriental genus Apolepis . [3]

Species

Species include: [3]

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References

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  2. "Mecistes". African Eumolpinae site. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  3. 1 2 Zoia, S. (2009). "A revision of the genus Mecistes (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana. 88: 117–154. doi: 10.4081/memorieSEI.2009.117 .
  4. Jacoby, M. (1900). "On new genera and species of Phytophagous Coleoptera from South and Central Africa". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London . 1900: 203–266.
  5. Zoia, S. (2007). "New data on African Eumolpinae from the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift . 54 (1): 69–74. doi:10.1002/mmnd.200700006.
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  7. Lefèvre, É. (1885). "Eumolpidarum hucusque cognitarum catalogus, sectionum conspectu systematico, generum sicut et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptionibus adjunctis". Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège. 2. 11 (16): 1–172.