Promecotheca is a genus of Asian leaf beetles, typical of the tribe Promecothecini in the subfamily Cassidinae; it was erected by Émile Blanchard in 1853.
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Promecotheca is a genus of Asian leaf beetles, typical of the tribe Promecothecini in the subfamily Cassidinae; it was erected by Émile Blanchard in 1853.
Species are especially well represented in New Guinea and the Pacific islands; some are minor coconut pests including: Promecotheca cumingii, P. papuana ("coconut leaf miners") and P. opacicollis: the New Hebrides coconut hispid.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).