Sagra (beetle)

Sagra
Sagra sp. from Ghana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Sagrinae
Genus:	Sagra Fabricius, 1792
Synonyms [1]
SagraniaRafinesque, 1815 TinosagraWeise, 1905 OrthosagraCrowson, 1946 ProsagraCrowson, 1946 SagrinaCrowson, 1946 SagrinolaMonrós & Bechyné, 1956

Sagra is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Chrysomelidae, commonly referred to as frog-legged beetles or kangaroo beetles.

List of species

The genus includes the following species: ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

• Sagra adonis Lacordaire, 1845 – Guinea
• Sagra amethystina Guérin-Méneville, 1844 – western Africa, South Africa
• Sagra bicolor Lacordaire, 1845 – tropical Africa
• Sagra buqueti Lesson, 1831 – Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines
• Sagra carbunculus Hope, 1842 – Northeast India, Nepal, Myanmar (?)
• Sagra coeruleata Lacordaire, 1845 – Madagascar
• Sagra congoana Clavareau, 1916 – DR Congo, Angola
• Sagra cyanea Dalman, 1823 – Sierra Leone
• Sagra diversepunctata Pic, 1938 – Ivory Coast
• Sagra dohrni Baly, 1860 – Guinea
• Sagra femorata (Drury, 1773) – tropical Asia from India to Australia
• Sagra ferox Baly, 1877 – eastern Africa
• Sagra fulgida Weber, 1801 – Southern China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam
• Sagra galinieri Lacordaire, 1845 – eastern Africa
• Sagra haefligeri Weise, 1905 – Tanzania
• Sagra hayekae David, 1954 ^[6] – Kenya
• Sagra humeralis Jacoby, 1904 – China (Guizhou, Yunnan and Zheijing)
• Sagra jansoni Baly, 1860 – China (Yunnan), India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam
• Sagra javeti Baly, 1860 – South Africa
• Sagra johnstoni Gahan, 1893 – Malawi
• Sagra livingstonii Baly, 1864 – Zambesi River
• Sagra moghanii Chen & Pu, 1962 – China (Yunnan)
• Sagra mouhoti Baly, 1862 – Cambodia, China (Yunnan), Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam
• Sagra murrayi Baly, 1860 – eastern Africa
• Sagra odontopus Gistel, 1831 – Cambodia, China (Guangdong, Yunnan), Indonesia (Sumatra, Java), Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam
• Sagra rugulipennis Weise, 1901 – New Guinea
• Sagra senegalensis Klug, 1835 – Senegal, eastern Africa
• Sagra tristis Fabricius, 1798 – Guinea, Angola, Congo, Tanzania
• Sagra violacea (Olivier, 1789) – western Africa, Somalia, Kenya, Chad, Uganda, Cameroon

References

1. Sekerka, L. (2024). "Subfamily Sagrinae Leach, 1815". In Bezděk, J.; Sekerka, L. (eds.). Chrysomeloidea II (Orsodacnidae, Megalopodidae, Chrysomelidae) – Part 1. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 6/2/1 (Updated and Revised Second ed.). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. pp. 175–176. doi:10.1163/9789004443303. ISBN   978-90-04-44330-3.
2. Mohamedsaid, M. S. (2004). Catalogue of the Malaysian Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Pensoft Series Faunistica. Vol. 36. Sofia: Pensoft Publishers. pp. 1–239. ISBN   9546422010. ISSN   1312-0174.
3. Sekerka, L.; Voisin, J.-F. (2014). "Types of Sagrinae in the collection of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Annales de la Société entomologique de France. N.S. 49 (4): 413–429. doi:10.1080/00379271.2014.893681.
4. Sekerka, L.; Geiser, M. (2016). "Sagrinae of Laos (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Entomologica Basiliensia et Collectionis Frey. 35: 443–453. doi: 10.5169/seals-980963 .
5. Clavareau, H. (1913). "Chrysomelidae: 1. Sagrinae, 2. Donaciinae, 3. Orsodacninae, 4. Criocerinae". In Junk, W.; Schenkling, S. (eds.). Coleopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 51. Berlin: W. Junk. pp. 1–103.
6. David, H.C.P. (1954). "Une nouvelle espèce de Sagra africaine (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 12. 7 (76): 303–304. doi:10.1080/00222935408651731.