Colasposoma grande is a species of leaf beetle found in Yemen,[3] Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. It was first described by Édouard Lefèvre in 1890. It was originally placed in the genus Eryxia, but was moved to the genus Colasposoma (subgenus Falsonerissus) by Stefano Zoia in 2012.[2]
| Colasposoma grande | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | Colasposoma |
| Subgenus: | Colasposoma (Falsonerissus) |
| Species: | C. grande
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| Binomial name | |
| Colasposoma grande | |
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A synonym of this species is Falsonerissus arabicus, described by Maurice Pic in 1951, which was the type and only species of the genus Falsonerissus. Falsonerissus is now considered a subgenus of Colasposoma.[2]
Subspecies edit
There are two subspecies of C. grande:
- Colasposoma grande grande (Lefèvre, 1890)[1] – Yemen (mainland), Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates
- Colasposoma grande insulare Zoia, 2012[2] – Yemen (Socotra)
References edit
- ^ a b Lefèvre, E. (1890). "Note sur trois espèces d'Eumolpidae". Bulletin des séances et bulletin bibliographique de la Société entomologique de France. 1890: LVII.
- ^ a b c d Zoia, S. (2012). "Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Socotra Island" (PDF). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 52 (supplementum 2): 449–501.
- ^ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Yemen". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved August 1, 2016.