Macrocoma bolivari

Macrocoma bolivari is a species of leaf beetle from Morocco.[4] It was first described by Spanish entomologist Manuel Martínez de la Escalera in 1914, as a species of Pseudocolaspis.

Macrocoma bolivari
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Macrocoma
Species:
M. bolivari
Binomial name
Macrocoma bolivari
(Escalera, 1914)[1]
Synonyms[2][3]
s.str
  • Macrocoma bolivari ab. smirnovi Kocher, 1969
  • ?Macrocoma rotroui Kocher, 1962
  • Pseudocolaspis bolivari Escalera, 1914
antiatlantis
  • Macrocoma bolivari antiatlantis var. siruensis Kocher, 1969

Subspecies

There are two subspecies of M. bolivari:[2]

  • Macrocoma bolivari antiatlantis Kocher, 1966: Described from Anti-Atlas mountains.
  • Macrocoma bolivari bolivari (Escalera, 1914): The nominotypical subspecies. Common around the High Atlas range.

References
  1. Escalera, M. M. de la (1914). "Los coleópteros de Marruecos". Trabajos del Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Serie Zoológica. 11: 1–553.
  2. Warchałowski, A. (2001). "A preliminary review of Western Palaearctic Macrocoma CHEVROLAT, 1837 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae)". Genus. 12 (4): 449–477. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.631.3702.
  3. Moseyko, A. G.; Sprecher-Uebersax, E. (2010). "Eumolpinae". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 619–643. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2.
  4. "African Eumolpinae checklist: Morocco". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved August 2, 2016.


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