Mecistes is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.[2] It is distributed in central and eastern Africa, from the Uele region and Kenya to Namibia, Botswana and the Eastern provinces of the Republic of South Africa, and in Saudi Arabia. It closely resembles the Oriental genus Apolepis.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumolpinae |
| Tribe: | Bromiini |
| Genus: | Mecistes Chapuis, 1874[1] |
| Type species | |
| Mecistes tarsalis Chapuis, 1874
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Species
editSpecies include:[3]
- Mecistes audisioi Zoia, 2009 – South Africa: Transvaal
- Mecistes chapuisi Jacoby, 1900[4] – DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
- Mecistes flavipes (Gerstaecker, 1855)[5] – Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana
- Mecistes grobbelaarae Zoia, 2009 – South Africa: Transvaal
- Mecistes lineatus (Pic, 1921)[6] – central and northern Tanzania
- Mecistes seriatus Lefèvre, 1885[7] – Saudi Arabia, Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa
- Mecistes tarsalis Chapuis, 1874[1] – DR Congo, Namibia (?), Botswana, South Africa
- Mecistes thompsoni Zoia, 2009 – Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa
- Mecistes ziliolii Zoia, 2009 – Namibia, Botswana, South Africa
- Mecistes zimbabweensis Zoia, 2009 – Zimbabwe
References
edit- ^ a b Chapuis, F. (1874). "Tome dixième. Famille des phytophages". In Lacordaire, J.T.; Chapuis, F. (eds.). Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Genera des coléoptères. Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. pp. i–iv, 1–455.
- ^ "Mecistes". African Eumolpinae site. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
- ^ a b Zoia, S. (2009). "A revision of the genus Mecistes (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana. 88: 117–154. doi:10.4081/memorieSEI.2009.117.
- ^ Jacoby, M. (1900). "On new genera and species of Phytophagous Coleoptera from South and Central Africa". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1900: 203–266.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Zoia, S. (2007). "A revision of the Pachnephorus from the Afrotropical Region (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Fragmenta Entomologica. 39 (1): 1–156. doi:10.4081/fe.2007.128.
- ^ 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.