Macrocoma obscuripes

Macrocoma obscuripes is a species of leaf beetle endemic to the Canary Islands.[3] It was first described by Thomas Vernon Wollaston in 1862 as a species of Pseudocolaspis.[4] It is found on Gran Canaria.[2]

Macrocoma obscuripes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Macrocoma
Species:
M. obscuripes
Binomial name
Macrocoma obscuripes
(Wollaston, 1862)[1]
Synonyms[2]

Pseudocolaspis obscuripes Wollaston, 1862

References

  1. Wollaston, T. V. (1862). "Brief diagnostic characters of new Canarian Coleoptera". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 3. 9 (54): 437–442. doi:10.1080/00222936208681259.
  2. Zoia, S. (2017). "The Macrocoma Chapuis from the Canary Islands, with description of a new species (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae Eumolpinae)". Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana. 149 (2): 75–92. doi:10.4081/BollettinoSEI.2017.75.
  3. "African Eumolpinae checklist: Canary Is". African Eumolpinae site (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae). Retrieved August 2, 2016.
  4. 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.


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