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Macrocoma
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Macrocoma is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains about 100 species, which are found in tropical Africa, around the Mediterranean, on the Canary Islands, in western and central Asia, and in India.
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Vinony's link graph records 55 inbound references to Macrocoma, and connects out to Macrocoma splendidula, Macrocoma rubripes and Macrocoma leprieuri.
It sits within the topics Beetles of Africa, Beetles of Asia and Beetles of Europe.
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 264
- With media
- 30
- Family
- Orthotrichaceae
- Collections
- FCN-UAQ, US, NY, IPA/SP, SAM, MICH
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Brasil, South Africa, Taiwan, India
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Bromiini
- Image
- Macrocoma rubripes (Schaufuss, 1862) male (16633879489).png
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- taxon name
- Macrocoma
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Macrocoma (Chrysomelidae)
- Commons category
- Macrocoma (Chrysomelidae)
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Encyclopedic overview
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Macrocoma is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains about 100 species, which are found in tropical Africa, around the Mediterranean, on the Canary Islands, in western and central Asia, and in India.
Macrocoma is closely related to the African genus Pseudocolaspis, and has sometimes been treated as a junior synonym of it historically. The two genera are distinguished by the exposure of the pygidium and the shape of the anterior edges of the prosternum: in Macrocoma, the pygidium is covered by the elytra and the anterior edges of the prosternum are flat, while in Pseudocolaspis, the pygidium is more than half-exposed and the anterior edges of the prosternum are convex. Currently, several species are not arranged according to these characters.
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