Biology:Chloropterus lefevrei

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Short description: Species of beetle

Chloropterus lefevrei
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Chloropterus
Species:
C. lefevrei
Binomial name
Chloropterus lefevrei
Reitter, 1890[1]
Synonyms[3]
  • Chloropterus nigrofasciatus Reitter, 1897[2]
  • Chloropterus nigrofasciatus var. bipunctatus Reitter, 1897[2]
  • Chloropterus nigrofasciatus var. bucharicus Reitter, 1897[2]

Chloropterus lefevrei is a species of leaf beetle distributed from the Caucasus via Central Asia to Western Asia.[4][3] It was first described by Edmund Reitter in 1890, who named it after Édouard Lefèvre.[1]

Subspecies

There are two subspecies of C. lefevrei:[4]

  • Chloropterus lefevrei arabicus Lopatin, 2008: Found in the United Arab Emirates.[5]
  • Chloropterus lefevrei lefevrei Reitter, 1890: The nominotypical subspecies. Found in Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Oman,[6] Saudi Arabia,[7] Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Reitter, E. (1890). "Beschreibungen neuer Coleopteren aus Europa, dem Kaukasus, Russisch-Armenien und Turkestan". Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 9: 189–198. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12112532. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Reitter, E. (1897). "Dreiſsig neue Coleopteren aus russisch Asien und der Mongolei". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1897 (2): 209–228. https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Deutsche-Ent-Zeitschrift_1897_0209-0228.pdf. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Moseyko, A. G.; Sprecher-Uebersax, E. (2010). "Eumolpinae". Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 619–643. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=qt8zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA620. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Lopatin, I. (2008). "Order Coleoptera, family Chrysomelidae". Arthropod Fauna of the UAE 1: 312–324. 
  5. "African Eumolpinae checklist: United Arab Emirates". chrysomelidae.it. http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/checklist-x-nazioni/UniArabEmirates.html. 
  6. "African Eumolpinae checklist: Oman". chrysomelidae.it. http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/checklist-x-nazioni/Oman.html. 
  7. "African Eumolpinae checklist: Saudi Arabia". chrysomelidae.it. http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/checklist-x-nazioni/SaudiArabia.html. 

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