Mecistes seriatus

Taxonavigation[edit]

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

Mecistes seriatus Lefèvre, 1885: 122

Holotype: MNHN. "Natal (printed white label).".

Type locality: "Natal".

Mecistes saudica Medvedev, 1997: 321 [syn.: Zoia, 2009: 128]
- Holotype: NHMB. ♂. "20 km SW Riyadh, 11.X.1988; Saudi Arabien, L. Curtis; Holotypus, Mecistes saudica m., L. Medvedev det. 1996.".
- Paratypes:
  - NHMB. 1♀. [same data]
  - Lev Medvedev collection. 1 ex.

Lefèvre, É. 1885. Eumolpidarum hucusque cognitarum catalogus, sectionum conspectu systematico, generum sicut et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptionibus adjunctis. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège (2) 11(16): 1–172. BHL Reference page.
Medvedev, L.N. 1997. New records and new species of Chrysomelidae from Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 16: 319–326. ISBN 9783723400166. [not seen]
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.

Löbl, I. & Smetana, A.. 2011. Errata to Volumes 1 to 6. Pp. 23–63. In: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 7. Curculionoidea I. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark. 373 pp. ISBN 978-87-88757-93-4. Google Books. [name corrected to Mecistes seriatus]
Moseyko, A.G. & Sprecher-Uebersax, E. 2010. Subfamily Eumolpinae Hope, 1840. Pp. 619–643. In: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark. 924 pp. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2. Google Books. Reference page. [as Mecistes saudica]