Mecistes seriatus is a species of leaf beetle found in Saudi Arabia,[3] Mozambique, Eswatini and South Africa.[2] It was first described by the French entomologist Édouard Lefèvre in 1885.
| Mecistes seriatus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Mecistes |
| Species: | M. seriatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Mecistes seriatus | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Mecistes saudica Medvedev, 1997 | |
References
edit- ↑ Lefèvre, É. (1885). "Eumolpidarum hucusque cognitarum catalogus, sectionum conspectu systematico, generum sicut et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptionibus adjunctis". Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège. 2. 11 (16): 1–172.
- 1 2 Zoia, S. (2009). "A revision of the genus Mecistes (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana. 88: 117–154. doi:10.4081/memorieSEI.2009.117.
- ↑ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Saudi Arabia". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved July 28, 2016.