Meristata

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Meristata
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Meristata spilota
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Genus: Meristata
Strand, 1935
Type species
Galleruca sexmaculata
Synonyms [1]

Merista Chapuis, 1874 (preoccupied)

Meristata is a genus of Asian leaf beetles in the subfamily Galerucinae. Most of the species in the genus are found along the Himalayas in the China and the Indian Subcontinent. [2]

Species in the genus include: [3] [1]

The species Meristata jayarami(Vazirani, 1970) was moved to the genus Leptarthra , [4] and the species Meristata maculata(Bryant, 1954) was moved to the genus Paraspitiella . [5]

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References

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