Meristata is a genus of Asian leaf beetles in the subfamily Galerucinae. Most of the species in the genus are found along the Himalayas in the China and the Indian Subcontinent.[2]
| Meristata | |
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| Meristata spilota | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Galerucinae |
| Genus: | Meristata Strand, 1935 |
| Type species | |
| Galleruca sexmaculata Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Merista Chapuis, 1874 (preoccupied) | |
Species in the genus include:[3][1]
- Meristata dohrnii (Baly, 1861)
- Meristata elongata (Jacoby, 1898)
- Meristata fallax (Harold, 1880)
- Meristata fraternalis (Baly, 1879)
- Meristata pulunini (Bryant, 1952)
- Meristata quadrifasciata (Hope, 1831)
- Meristata sexmaculata (Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844)
- Meristata spilota (Hope, 1831) (synonym: Meristata trifasciata (Hope, 1831))
The species Meristata jayarami (Vazirani, 1970) was moved to the genus Leptarthra,[4] and the species Meristata maculata (Bryant, 1954) was moved to the genus Paraspitiella.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b Beenen, R. (2010). "Galerucinae Latreille, 1802". In Löbl, I.; Smetana, A. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 443–491. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2.
- ^ Silfverberg, Hans (1990). "Records of Galerucinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from the lndian subcontinent. Part 1". Entomologica Fennica. 1 (4): 201–207. doi:10.33338/ef.83486. S2CID 82491729.
- ^ Kimoto, Shinsaku (2005). "Systematic Catalog of the Chrysomelidae(Coleoptera) from Nepal and Bhutan" (PDF). Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A. 3: 13–114.
- ^ Bezděk, J. (2012). "Taxonomic and faunistic notes on Oriental and Palaearctic Galerucinae and Cryptocephalinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Genus. 23 (3): 375–418.
- ^ Bezděk, J.; Nie, R-E. (2019). "Taxonomical changes and new records of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from eastern Palaearctic and Oriental Regions". Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology. 22 (3): 655–665. doi:10.1016/j.aspen.2019.05.002. S2CID 155530357.
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