Mecistomela is a genus of leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species, Mecistomela marginata, which is found in Brazil (Bahia, Distrito Federal, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, São Paulo).
Mecistomela is a genus of leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species, Mecistomela marginata, which is found in Brazil (Bahia, Distrito Federal, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, São Paulo).
==Description== Adults reach a length of about 23–34 mm. Adults are black, with the pronotum and elytron with orange markings.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).