Melindea

Melindea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Eumolpinae
Tribe:	Euryopini
Genus:	Melindea Lefèvre, 1884 [1]
Type species
Melindea abyssinica Lefèvre, 1884 [1]
Synonyms [2]
Mashonania Jacoby, 1901 [3] Casmenella Jacoby, 1904 [4] Falsoparnops Pic, 1923 [5]

Melindea is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. ^[6] It is known from Africa.

Species

• Melindea abyssinica Lefèvre, 1884 ^[1]
• Melindea brunnea (Jacoby, 1901) ^[3]
• Melindea denticrus (Burgeon, 1941)
• Melindea ferruginipes (Weise, 1924) ^[7]
• Melindea limbata (Pic, 1923) ^[5]
• Melindea nigripes (Bryant, 1954) ^[8]
• Melindea nigrita (Jacoby, 1901) ^[3]
• Melindea nigritarsis (Bryant, 1954) ^[8]
• Melindea opaca (Weise, 1915)
• Melindea pubescens (Bryant, 1941) ^[9]
• Melindea robusta (Pic, 1923) ^[5]
• Melindea rufescens (Pic, 1950)
• Melindea semifulva (Bryant, 1954) ^[8]
• Melindea virescens (Lefèvre, 1885) ^{[10] [11]}

References

1. Lefèvre, E. (1884). "Melindea, Phascus, Pagria nn. genn". Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France . 4: LXV–LXVII.
2. Selman, B. J. (1965). "A revision of the Nodini and a key to the genera of Eumolpidae of Africa (Coleoptera: Eumolpidae)" (PDF). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology. 16 (3): 141–174. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.21864.
3. Jacoby, M. (1901). "A further contribution to our knowledge of African Phytophagous Coleoptera". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London . 49 (3): 209–256. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1901.tb02386.x.
4. Jacoby, M. (1904). "Another contribution to the knowledge of African Phytophagous Coleoptera". Journal of Zoology . 74 (1): 230–270. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1904.tb08290.x.
5. Pic, M. (1923). "Nouveautés diverses" (PDF). Mélanges Exotico–Entomologiques. 40: 1–32.
6. "Melindea". African Eumolpinae site. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
7. Weise, J. (1924). "Zoological Results of the Swedish Expedition to Central Africa 1921. Insecta. 7. Chrysomelidae und Coccinellidae" (PDF). Arkiv för Zoologi. 16 (22): 1–30.
8. Bryant, G. E. (1954). "New species of Chrysomelidae (Eumolpinae and Halticinae, Coleoptera) from Kenya colony forwarded by the Nairobi Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 12. 7 (77): 353–361. doi:10.1080/00222935408651739.
9. Bryant, G. E. (1941). "New species of African Chrysomelidae (Col.)". Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series B, Taxonomy. 10 (11): 209–214. Bibcode:1941SysEn..10..209B. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1941.tb00681.x.
10. 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.
11. Zoia, S. (2019). "Nomenclature changes in African Eumolpinae with reference to type specimens preserved in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France . Nouvelle Série. 55 (1): 61–86. Bibcode:2019AnSEF..55...61Z. doi:10.1080/00379271.2018.1556119. S2CID   155689938.