Mecistes flavipes

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Chrysomeloidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Cladus: Phytophaga Superfamilia: Chrysomeloidea

Familia: Chrysomelidae
Subfamilia: Eumolpinae
Tribus: Bromiini
Genus: Mecistes
Species: Mecistes flavipes

Name

Mecistes flavipes (Gerstaecker, 1855)

Lectotype: ZMB. "50153; flavipes Gerst.*, Tete, Peters [handwritten blue label]; Syntypus Pachnephorus flavipes Gerstaecker, 1855, labelled by MNHUB 2005 [printed red label]; LECTOTYPUS, Pachnephorus flavipes Gerstaecker, 1855, S. Zoia des., 2007 [printed red label]; Mecistes flavipes (Gerstaecker, 1855) n. comb., S. Zoia det., 2007 [printed white label]". (designated by Zoia, 2007b: 131)

Type locality: "Tete".

Synonymy

• Pachnephorus flavipes Gerstaecker, 1855: 637 (original combination)
• Mecistes flavipes: Zoia, 2007a: 70

References

Primary references

• Gerstaecker, C.E.A. 1855. Diagnosen neuer Coleopteren und Lepidopteren. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1855: 636–639. BHL.
• Zoia, S. 2007. New data on African Eumolpinae from the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 54(1): 69–74. DOI: 10.1002/mmnd.200700006 . Reference page. 
• Zoia, S. 2007. A revision of the Pachnephorus from the Afrotropical region (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Fragmenta entomologica 39(1): 1–156. DOI: 10.13133/2284-4880/128 . Reference page. 

Additional references

• Zoia, S. 2009. A revision of the genus Mecistes (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae). Memorie della Società entomologica italiana 88(1): 117–154. DOI: 10.4081/memorieSEI.2009.117 . PDF. Reference page. 

Links

• Mecistes flavipes. African Eumolpinae site.