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Promecotheca
Sign in to savePromecotheca is a genus of Asian leaf beetles, typical of the tribe Promecothecini in the subfamily Cassidinae; it was erected by Émile Blanchard in 1853.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 15
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Collections
- PSUC, USNM, NHMUK
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- Parent taxon
- Promecothecini
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- Promecotheca opacicollis.jpg
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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.
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