Microeurydemus africanus

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Microeurydemus africanus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Microeurydemus
Species:
M. africanus
Binomial name
Microeurydemus africanus
(Jacoby, 1900) [1]
Synonyms [2]

Pseudosyagrus africanus Jacoby, 1900

Microeurydemus africanus is a species of leaf beetle. It is distributed in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Saudi Arabia, [3] Yemen, Eritrea and Sudan. [4] It was first described by Martin Jacoby in 1900.

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References

  1. 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.
  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. "African Eumolpinae checklist: Saudi Arabia". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved July 28, 2016.
  4. Selman, B. J. (1973). "Coleoptera from North-East Africa. Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae. (Zoological contribution from the Finnish expeditions to the Sudan No. 34)". Notulae Entomologicae. 53 (4): 159–166.