Platycorynus dejeani

Platycorynus dejeani is a species of leaf beetle. It was first described by the Italian entomologist Giuseppe Bertoloni from Inhambane, Mozambique in 1849. It occurs widely in sub-Saharan Africa.

Platycorynus dejeani
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Genus:	Platycorynus
Species:	P. dejeani
Binomial name
Platycorynus dejeani Bertoloni, 1849[1]
Synonyms[2]
Corynodes (Platycorynus) compressicornis var. D Marshall, 1865[3] Corynodes (Platycorynus) pusio Marshall, 1865[3] Corynodes insignis Lefèvre, 1890 Corynodes zombae Gahan, 1893 Corynodes usambius Kolbe, 1898 Corynodes weisei Clavareau, 1912 Corynodes dejeani ab. goetzei Kuntzen, 1913 Corynodes dejeani ab. kilimanus Kuntzen, 1913 Corynodes dejeani ab. kolbei Kuntzen, 1913 Corynodes dejeani ab. nyassicus Kuntzen, 1913 Corynodes dejeani ab. rhodesianus Kuntzen, 1913 Corynodes dejeani ab. septentrionalis Kuntzen, 1913 Corynodes dejeani ab. somalicus Kuntzen, 1913 Corynodes dejeani ab. tanganyikae Kuntzen, 1913 Corynodes dejeani var. teteanus Kuntzen, 1913 Corynodes dejeani ab. arcuaticollis Kuntzen, 1913

Distribution

In East Africa, the species' range extends from Ethiopia down to the former Cape Province in South Africa. The species also occurs in Senegal,[4] the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[5]

Gallery

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  on milkweed
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  feigning death
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  mating pair

References

1. Bertoloni, J. (1849). "Illustratio rerum naturalium Mozambici. Dissertatio III. De Coleopteris". Novi Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis. 10: 423–433.
2. Kuntzen, H. (1913). "Zur Kenntnis der afrikanischen Corynoden (Coleopt. Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Archiv für Naturgeschichte. A. 79 (7): 78–132.
3. Marshall, T. A. (1864). "Corynodinorum Recensio". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 8 (29): 24–50. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1864.tb02004.x.
4. "African Eumolpinae checklist: Senegal". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
5. Selman, B. J. (1973). "Coleoptera from North-East Africa. Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae. (Zoological contribution from the Finnish expeditions to the Sudan No. 34)". Notulae Entomologicae. 53 (4): 159–166.