Ajubus is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It contains only one species, Ajubus viridis, described from Champion Bay in Western Australia. The genus was originally named Thaumastomerus by Hamlet Clark in 1865; however, this name was preoccupied by Thaumastomerus Wollaston, 1861 (a beetle genus in Curculionidae), so it was renamed to Ajubus by N. A. Aslam in 1968.

Ajubus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Eumolpini
Genus: Ajubus
Aslam, 1968[2]
Species:
A. viridis
Binomial name
Ajubus viridis
(Clark, 1865)[1]
Synonyms[2]
Genus

Thaumastomerus Clark, 1865
(nec Wollaston, 1861)
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Species

Thaumastomerus viridis Clark, 1865[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Clark, H. (1865). "Descriptions of new Phytophaga from Western Australia". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 3. 2: 401–421.
  2. ^ a b Aslam, N. A. (1968). "Nomenclatorial notes on Chrysomeloidea (Coleoptera)". Journal of Natural History. 2 (1): 127–129. doi:10.1080/00222936800770691.
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