Sagra (beetle)

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

Sagra is a genus of frog-legged leaf beetles (family Chrysomelidae) placed in the monotypic tribe Sagrini. Members of this genus are found in Africa, Asia, and Australia (including New Guinea).

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.