Mecistes seriatus is a species of leaf beetle found in Saudi Arabia,[3] Mozambique, Eswatini and South Africa.[2] It was first described by the French entomologist Édouard Lefèvre in 1885.

Mecistes seriatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Mecistes
Species:
M. seriatus
Binomial name
Mecistes seriatus
Synonyms[2]

Mecistes saudica Medvedev, 1997

References

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  1. ^ Lefèvre, É. (1885). "Eumolpidarum hucusque cognitarum catalogus, sectionum conspectu systematico, generum sicut et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptionibus adjunctis". Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège. 2. 11 (16): 1–172.
  2. ^ a b Zoia, S. (2009). "A revision of the genus Mecistes (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana. 88: 117–154. doi:10.4081/memorieSEI.2009.117.
  3. ^ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Saudi Arabia". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved July 28, 2016.