Colasposoma fairmairei
Appearance
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Colasposoma fairmairei | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Chrysomelidae |
Genus: | Colasposoma |
Subgenus: | Colasposoma (Colasposoma) |
Species: | C. fairmairei
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Binomial name | |
Colasposoma fairmairei | |
Synonyms | |
Dasychlorus varicolor Fairmaire, 1899 |
Colasposoma fairmairei is a species of leaf beetle. It is distributed in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo[2] and Sudan.[3] It was described by Édouard Lefèvre in 1877.
Subspecies
[edit]There are two subspecies of C. fairmairei:[4]
- Colasposoma fairmairei fairmairei Lefèvre, 1877: The nominotypical subspecies. Distributed in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Colasposoma fairmairei katangense Burgeon, 1941: Distributed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
References
[edit]- ^ Lefèvre, E. (1877). "Descriptions de Coléoptères nouveaux ou peu connus de la Famille des Eumolpides (2e partie)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 5. 7: 309–326.
- ^ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Dem. Rep. Congo". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ^ Selman, B. J. (1973). "Coleoptera from North-East Africa. Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae. (Zoological contribution from the Finnish expeditions to the Sudan No. 34)". Notulae Entomologicae. 53 (4): 159–166.
- ^ Burgeon, L. (1941). "Les Colasposoma et les Euryope du Congo Belge (Coléop. Chrysomel. Eumolp.)" (PDF). Mémires de l'Institut Royal Colonial Belge. 10 (5): 1–43.