Mecistes seriatus

Mecistes seriatus is a species of leaf beetle found in Saudi Arabia,[3] Mozambique, Swaziland and South Africa.[2] It was first described by the French entomologist Édouard Lefèvre in 1885.

Mecistes seriatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Mecistes
Species:
M. seriatus
Binomial name
Mecistes seriatus
Synonyms[2]

Mecistes saudica Medvedev, 1997

References

  1. 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.
  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.
  3. "African Eumolpinae checklist: Saudi Arabia". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved July 28, 2016.


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