Macrocoma rubripes

Macrocoma rubripes
	Macrocoma rubripes (Schaufuss, 1862) male (16633879489)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Genus:	Macrocoma
Species:	M. rubripes
Binomial name
	Macrocoma rubripes; (Schaufuss, 1862)
Synonyms[1][2]
	Eubrachis balcanicus Apfelbeck, 1912; Pachnephorus aeneus Walker, 1871; ?Pseudocolaspis anatolica Pic, 1898; Pseudocolaspis diversicolor Schaufuss, 1871; Pseudocolaspis graeca Lefèvre, 1876; Pseudocolaspis rubripes Schaufuss, 1862;

Macrocoma rubripes is a species of leaf beetle from Europe, Asia and possibly North Africa. It was first described by Ludwig Wilhelm Schaufuss in 1862, as a species of Pseudocolaspis.

Subspecies

There are two subspecies of M. rubripes:

Macrocoma rubripes rubripes: The nominotypical subspecies. It is distributed in the Balkan Peninsula, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria and the Caucasus. It has also been reported from Saudi Arabia,[3] Egypt,[4] Libya,[5] and Algeria.[6]
Macrocoma rubripes turkmena Lopatin, 1976: Found in Turkmenistan.

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