Mesosa sparsenotata | |
---|---|
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | |
Phylum: | |
Class: | |
Order: | |
Suborder: | |
Family: | |
Genus: | |
Species: | M. sparsenotata |
Binomial name | |
Mesosa sparsenotata Pic, 1922 | |
Mesosa sparsenotata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Maurice Pic in 1922. It is known from Vietnam. [1]
Beetles are a group of insects that form the order Coleoptera, in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal life-forms; new species are discovered frequently. The largest of all families, the Curculionidae (weevils) with some 80,000 member species, belongs to this order. Found in almost every habitat except the sea and the polar regions, they interact with their ecosystems in several ways: beetles often feed on plants and fungi, break down animal and plant debris, and eat other invertebrates. Some species are serious agricultural pests, such as the Colorado potato beetle, while others such as Coccinellidae eat aphids, scale insects, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects that damage crops.
Maurice Pic was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. He contributed to Mary-Louis Fauconnet's Catalogue raisonné des coléoptères de Saône-et-Loire and wrote many short papers, many in L'Échange, Revue Linnéenne describing world beetles. His most important work was for Sigmund Schenkling's still very relevant Coleopterorum Catalogus.
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula. With an estimated 94.6 million inhabitants as of 2016, it is the 15th most populous country in the world. Vietnam shares its land borders with China to the north, and Laos and Cambodia to the west. It shares its maritime borders with Thailand through the Gulf of Thailand, and the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia through the South China Sea. Its capital city is Hanoi, while its most populous city is Ho Chi Minh City.
Mesosini is a tribe of longhorn beetles of the Lamiinae subfamily.
Mesosa is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species:
Mesosa affinis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1936. It is known from Nepal and Bhutan.
Mesosa biplagiata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1935. It is known from Java.
Mesosa griseiventris is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1938. It is known from India.
Mesosa quadriplagiata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1935. It is known from Laos, Vietnam and China.
Mesosa rondoni is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1962. It is known from Laos.
Mesosa pictipes is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Gressitt in 1937. It is known from Japan.
Mesosa revoluta is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe in 1865. It is known from Borneo.
Mesosa expansa is an extinct species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, that existed during the Lower to Middle Miocene. It was described by Hong in 1983.
Mesosa laxa is an extinct species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, that existed during the Lower to Middle Miocene. It was described by Zhang in 1989.
Mesosa latifasciata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by White in 1858, originally under the genus Cacia. It is known from Taiwan, Vietnam and China.
Mesosa longipennis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Henry Walter Bates in 1873. It is known from Taiwan, Russia, South Korea, China, and Japan. It contains the varietas Mesosa longipennis var. subobliterata.
Mesosa nebulosa is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1781, originally under the genus Lamia. It has a wide distribution throughout Europe and the Caucasus. It measures between 9 to 15 mm.
Mesosa rosa is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Karsch in 1882.
Mesosa curculionoides is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, and the type species of its genus. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761, originally under the genus Cerambyx. It has a wide distribution throughout Europe and in the Caucasus, and is also known from South Korea. It was formerly found in Belgium, where it is now extinct. It measures between 10 to 17 mm.
Mesosa myops is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Dalman in 1817, originally under the genus Cerambyx. It is known from Russia, China, Finland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Poland, Taiwan, and Ukraine.
Mesosa stictica is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Blanchard in 1871. It is known from China.
Mesosa hirsuta is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Henry Walter Bates in 1884. It is known from Japan and China.
Mesosa obscuricornis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Maurice Pic in 1894, originally as a varietas of M. nebulosa. It is known from Iran, Azerbaijan, and Turkey.
This Mesosini article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |