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
Meristata spilota
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Galerucinae
Genus: Meristata
Strand, 1935
Type species
Galleruca sexmaculata
Synonyms[1]

Merista Chapuis, 1874 (preoccupied)

Species in the genus include:[3][1]

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

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  1. ^ 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.
  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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Bezděk, J. (2012). "Taxonomic and faunistic notes on Oriental and Palaearctic Galerucinae and Cryptocephalinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Genus. 23 (3): 375–418.
  5. ^ 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.